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
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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 length test – a test [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
