I have searched high and low for a good place that details all the parameters available in the object tag for a Silverlight application. You probably know, but the HTML <object> tag is now used to embed Silverlight applications (known as xaps) into your HTML page. Sure there is the <asp:Silverlight> tag for ASP.NET 3.5 [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Oct 28
Silverlight controls
OMG, check out the Silverlight controls. http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight. Or better yet, check out the Demo, very impressive.
While checking out controls, don’t forget Silverlight Contrib. I am working with their Tweening library, and so far it’s very nice. I would like to see nice performing Tweening straight from the code instead of through XAML.
Oct 27
AOL Silverlight mail client
Last week I received an invite from AOL’s new mail client written in Silverlight. If you remember, this product was announced at MIX earlier this year. This says a lot about where the technology is going if a big company is willing to go out on a limb and give Silverlight a try. Three features [...]
Oct 22
Updated examples to RTM
Finally, finally, finally, I got around to updating a couple examples to Silverlight 2 RTM. Here is a list of examples:
VideoPlayerExample – an example of a video player using the VideoSlider control. Camera test – An example using a camera object and changing the camera on mouse move. Focal [...]
Oct 15
Why use a Client Access Policy file
An interesting question crossed my plate today “why should I use a client access policy or cross domain policy on my server?”. Having come from the server world, I had to remind myself repeatedly that the fundamental difference between Silverlight and ASP.NET is Silverlight runs on the client, and ASP.NET runs on the server.
Along with [...]
Oct 13
Implement the Video Slider control
A month ago I released a Slider control specifically geared towards video. It includes a download progress indicator and the ability to click on the track to navigate. Unfortunately when I released the code, there was no documentation. In an effort to correct that, here is how to implement the VideoSlider. (And here is the [...]
Oct 10
Video Slider update for RC0
Thanks to Jesse Liberty I am not going to go bald. From Beta2 to RC0, there is a fundamental change for Custom Controls. If you are using generic.xaml in your custom control, you need to create a new folder called Themes in the root directory.
The VideoSliderControl is updated to reflect this change. Download the code.
Oct 07
Overview of Databinding in Silverlight
The goal the below code is to bind data using XAML. So, for the example I used MLB Pitching stats for 2008, created a Pitcher object, then a PitcherCollection objet, and finally used XAML to define an instance of the PitcherCollection. The result is the Page.xaml.cs does not have any code in it, but a [...]
Oct 06
Mojave tries on 3d
Someone sent me this link today. It is a campaign page for Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment and it seems to be using (or was inspired by) the lightweight 3D framework that I recently began working on.
It is great to see a practical implementation of that stuff in action so soon!
Oct 03
1 Year of blogging
Today is the first official anniversary of this blog! Thank all of you for reading and showing interest. A year ago Silverlight 1.0 was all there was. This blog was started to try to make sense of a technology that wasn’t mature. Since then, Silverlight has had two beta release and recently a published RC0. [...]
