The other night I mildly expressed my frustration about the default size of a UserControl upon creation on Twitter. (Don’t you hate it when Height and Width are automatically specified; I always end up deleting it). Within a few minutes the official twitter account for the Silverlight team pinged me back asking what I would [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Mar 28
Folding animation in Silverlight 3
The past couple days I’ve been working on a data visualization application. In doing so, I quickly mocked up unfolding a box. This is super simple XAML all done in Blend. Don’t forget to check out the XAML and see the demo:
Download XAML | View example
Mar 19
Working with perspective 3D in Expression Blend 3
In my last post about perspective 3d I showed a quick sample application on how to take an image, bind it to a slider and control the RotationY on the PlaneProjection object. It’s easy enough to hand code one image, but now I want to design an interface. So, I downloaded the newest version of [...]
Mar 18
Simple Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3
Perspective 3D comes to Silverlight! Below is a simple example on how to add Perspective 3d to your project. First, this is what the resulting application is going to look like, then we’ll dive into the code:
Download the code | See the example in action
XAML
There are two new features of note in this example. [...]
Mar 18
MIX09 – Day 1
What a great first day at Mix. After talking with so many people over e-mail and Twitter, it’s wonderful to finally put a name with a face. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I haven’t hit the black jack tables, but that could only be a matter of time.
Here’s what my session schedule is looking like for [...]
Mar 18
Silverlight 3 Beta 1 available
This certainly can’t be a mistake, but it appears that the Silverlight 3 Beta 1 bits are available for download. Check out Ars Technica for the links: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/silverlight-3-related-bits-start-to-arrive-early.ars.
I’m looking forward to this mornings Keynote when all the features are announced.
More to come…
Mar 14
Visibility pattern in Silverlight
The Visibility pattern is way of overriding the base Visibility of a control and adding a custom animation. There are a couple ways of hiding a control on screen 1.) setting the Opacity to 0 or 2.) setting the Visibility of the object to Collapsed. Depending on the situation, the latter is probably a preferred [...]
Mar 11
MVVM notes and references
The paste couple week I’ve had two blog post that I just can’t finish. One is fully detailing my light weight 3d framework, and the second one is a post that compiles a list of MVVM resources and learning’s. A colleague of mine at Schematic, Herberth Madrigal, put together a list of what he’s learned [...]
Mar 10
Generic XAML loading control
There have been many times I’ve needed a simple/generic loading control for Silverlight. After a few frustrating google searches resulting in nothing, I decided it was time to create my own. Normally I love creating controls, but, in my mind, a loading control is something that I don’t want to devote much time to. It’s [...]
Mar 05
The State of Silverlight 2 books
The past couple weeks I’ve seen a number of people asking for Silverlight book recommendations. Although I haven’t read all the below books; I’ve put together a comprehensive list of what’s available to you right now. If for any reason I have missed a Silverlight 2 book, please let me know and I’ll gladly update [...]
