Modifying Animatino Properties
"In my most recent article, I describe how to use code modify an animation’s properties. Earlier this year, I wrote a similar article on how to do accomplish the same task where you write some code to modify an animation’s properties. The reason for two articles is not because I have a lot of free time (Fable II and Gears of War 2 take care of that), but it is because of differences between Silverlight and WPF" [More]
http://blog.kirupa.com/?p=294Silverlight Glass Button
"Today, I got some time to check his code again and managed to port it to Silverlight. It was very simple. The only difference between the original WPF style and the one that I ported is that I’m using Visual State Manager instead of ControlTemplate.Triggers in this sample. The reason is that Silverlight doesn’t support all kind of WPF triggers (including ControlTemplate.Triggers) except EventTrigger. So, I decided to use VSM in my sample. I hope you find it useful." [More]
http://michaelsync.net/2008/11/08/silverlight-glass-buttonMigrate DataSEt to List<Type> for SL2 Grid
"There was very well response to both articles..I got lots of mails from many..But the feedback is how one can do it with DataSet [Traditional Data Container] and pass it over service, without using LINQ or migrating to LINQ.
Well Big thanks to Mr. Mahesh Sabnis who is one of my mentor at consulting department where I am working right now, We did it together and came up with this simple code snippet which is self explanatory and you just need to plug it in your service logic and rest will work fine as it was with LINQ to SQL.
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http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com/2008/11/migrate-dataset-to-list-for-data.htmlInitial Parameters for SL
"When writing Silverlight applications there might one question come up from time to time: Is it possible to "feed" the application with initial parameters and if yes, how can this be done?" [More]
http://www.dotnet-blog.com/index.php/2008/11/07/initial-parameters-for-silverlight/Modifying SL Animatiosn using code
"This tutorial will show you how to take a XAML animation and modify its properties using C# to create something pretty cool. By the end of this tutorial, you will have created something similar to the following animation:" [More]
http://www.kirupa.com/blend_silverlight/modifying_animation_sl2_pg1.htmSL and WriteableBitmap
"I’ve just released a library to CodePlex that implements a feature missing from Silverlight: the ability to generate bitmaps from pixels in code at runtime. WPF provides this through its WritableBitmap class, but Silverlight 2 doesn’t have that. My SlDynamicBitmap project offers a solution." [More]
http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2008/11/07/silverlight-writeable-bitmapSL MediaElement Playing a Video in Azure Blob
"There are two things that I want to show in this post:
1. That you can use Silverlight in a Windows Azure Cloud Service
2. That you can stream a movie progressively via http (more about that here) from Windows Azure Blob storage
The code is attached to this blog post. Note that you will have to add and reference the Common and StorageClient projects that come as samples in the Windows Azure SDK." [More]
http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/11/05/silverlight-mediaelement-playing-a-video-stored-in-windows-azure-blob-storage.aspxFree Teaser chapter for Data Driven Services
"A free teaser chapter is now available for my book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2. The free chapter, Chapter 8 – Consuming Amazon’s RESTful Services with Silverlight 2, is in the PDF format and includes the rough Table of Contents along with the free chapter. You can download the C# code for this chapter from my site right here (No worries, I will have C# and VB code available for the book when it releases)." [More]
http://johnpapa.net/data-driven-services-with-silverlight-2/free-teaser-chapter-for-data-driven-services-with-silverlight-2/