A fun and novel use of the VideoBrush in Silverlight.
Archive for the ‘Silverlight tips and tricks’ Category
Cool demonstration of Silverlight VideoBrush
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged online jigsaw puzzles, silverlight, VideoBrush on March 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
SuperStackPanel = Grid + StackPanel
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged grid, silverlight, silverlight controls, stackpanel, tool, xaml on February 25, 2010 | 10 Comments »
StackPanels are great, but missing the ability to stretch children to fit. Grids accomplish the job but are overkill and take more Xaml to make work. SuperStackPanel is a lightweight and simple to use.
Use Silverlight to resize images and increase compression BEFORE uploading
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged silverlight, WriteableBitmap on January 21, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Resize your images and reduce their quality before you upload them to your server to save yourself money, improve user experience, and increase scalability.
PuzzleTouch wins the ComponentArt Silverlight Coding Contest
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged ComponentArt, PuzzleTouch, silverlight on November 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
PuzzleTouch Online Jigsaw Puzzles wins the ComponentArt Silverlight Coding Contest.
Host your Silverlight apps on Amazon S3
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged S3, silverlight on November 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Guide to eliminate scalability concerns for your Silverlight app by hosting your xap on Amazon S3.
Silverlight Presentation at EADNUG
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged EADNUG, silverlight on October 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to all who attended my presentation tonight at the Eugene .NET users group (EADNUG)! There were many great questions I had a fantastic time showing off all the cool things Silverlight can do. Click here to get all the fun little projects covered (and a few we didn’t have time for). See you again [...]
How HTML5 can compete with Silverlight and Flash
Posted in HTML5, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Chrome, Flash, HTML5, IE, silverlight on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the tech journalists out there don’t seem to understand what this is really all about. It’s about HTML5 vs. Silverlight vs. Flash.
Cropping an image in Silverlight 3
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Image manipulation, silverlight, Silverlight 3, Silverlight tips and tricks, WriteableBitmap on July 12, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Silverlight 3 introduces the WriteableBitmap class and with it, the ability to crop an image programmatically on the client! All you need to do is create a new instance of the WritableBitmap class as your destination (supplying the dimensions in the constructor). Then create or acquire another instance of the WriteableBitmap class fully loaded with an [...]
According to my stats: Silverlight install base over 50%
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged ria install base, silverlight, silverlight adoption, silverlight install base on July 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
How many people have Silverlight installed? According to Rich Internet Application Statistics, Silverlight is installed on 30.27% of the machines out there. However, I’ve been tracking stats on my own site: MyPadlock.com (a free password manager for Windows) and have seen a much different number. Here are my results from the previous month: Find out more [...]
Look what Silverlight can do
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, Windows Azure, tagged Azure, newCloudApp contest, online jigsaw puzzles, silverlight, silverlight game, Silverlight tips and tricks on June 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Look what Silverlight can do. Check out the PuzzleTouch app at the NewCloudApp contest for Windows Azure to see an example of what only Silverlight could do running on Windows Azure.
