Join me on December 10th at 3:00pm EST for a MSDN geekSpeak webcast. The format is “talk radio” style. I’ll be talking about the ins and outs of Silvelright video players and taking your questions. It is a free event so register here and give me a shout! Event Overview In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Silverlight [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Nov 25
Silverlight ToolTips – positioning and customizing
Customizing The end all be all definitive guide on how to customize a ToolTip is Dave Relyea’s post. He shows a very clean and concise step by step on how to completely change the visuals of a ToolTip. http://blogs.msdn.com/devdave/archive/2008/10/18/customizing-a-tooltip.aspx Positioning Positioning a ToolTip can be done with HorizontalOffset and VerticalOffset. The biggest drawback is the [...]
Nov 18
Embedding and Obfuscating fonts
Before I begin, obfuscate is one of my least favorite words. It just sounds pretentious whenever it rolls off the tongue. Moving on…over the past couple days I have been struggling with embedding a font into my Silverlight project. There are a number of tutorials out there on how to embed fonts (Tim Hauer has [...]
Nov 16
Microsoft Expression Blend Visual Quickstart Guide
After four months of writing, the book is almost here!!! The book covers Microsoft Expression Blend focusing on Silverlight 2 examples. AFAIK, this is the first Blend book to focus on Silverlight 2. The past couple weeks were the last big push to get all the content in, edited, and reviewed. It’s been exhausting, but [...]
