Infinite hoizontal panning for maps - with source
"The HDView team released a gem of a sample app this week from ICE that amongst other things provide a solution for showing 360 degree panoramas. The solution uses three MSI controls to provide a seamless panning experience.
Now what could be a bigger 360 panorama then the Earth itself?"
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http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryID/522/Default.aspxstyling a SL Twitter app with Exp Blend 2, to easy!
Just too easy looking! Take a blah looking application and in a matter of a few minutes, have a friendly looking app without one line of code changed! Check out this video:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Celso-Gomes-Styling-a-Silverlight-based-Twitter-application-with-Expression-Blend-2/http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/14/styling-a-silverlight-twitter-application-with-expression-blend-2.aspxBlend Tips & Tricks
Here is the video listed from Scott's post above:
"See how Expression Blend can be used to design user interfaces for the desktop and the Web using both Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2. Learn how to design consistently for both technologies and how the resulting XAML provides elegant workflow between developers and designers." [More]
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC47/Laurent Bugnion on WPF and SL
"Jon talks to Laurent Bugnion about WPF and Silverlight. Laurent’s an expert on WPF and Silverlight, and is the author of Silverlight 2 Unleashed.
Topics
•Differences between WPF and Silverlight
•Thoughts on Silverlight offline
•Model-View-ViewModel pattern and applications in Blend
•WPF Disciples mailing list
•Why use WPF instead of Winforms
•Non-visual benefits of WPF and Silverlight
•Benefits of the XAML format
•Silverlight’s VisualStateManager compared to WPF triggers
•Laurent’s experiences writing Silverlight 2 Unleashed
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http://herdingcode.com/?p=91]Adobe: Do not underestimate Microsoft
"Comments from a meeting last week with journalists at Adobe's (ADBE) headquarters indicate that Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen, thinks Adobe has already won the online video platform battle and that Flash can survive any threat from Microsoft (MSFT). That's a dangerous assumption to make and underestimating Microsoft's ability to challenge any company, in the long run, is never a good idea." [More]
http://seekingalpha.com/article/105867-adobe-do-not-underestimate-microsoft-s-ability-to-compete-with-flashSL 2 App Dev with LINQ to SQL & WCF
"This is my third article in a series focusing on Silverlight 2.0 (RC 1) development using Visual Studio 2008. In this article, we will create a simple “LINQ to SQL” model, access the model with a WCF Service and consume the same using a Silverlight 2.0 application. Technically, we will have Silverlight 2.0 controls accessing a regular WCF Service and fetch information from the database using the “LINQ to SQL” model." [More]
http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/Silverlight-20-Application-Development-with-LINQ-to-SQL-and-a-WCF-Service/Fix for simply HTML display in SL
"I updated my HtmlTextBlock sample for RTW last night and got an email from kind reader Ed Silverton this morning pointing out a problem setting FontSize on a standalone instance of the control. (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement for the Alpha, Improvements, Beta 1 Update, Data Binding Support, Beta 2 Update, RTW Update) Unfortunately, this problem does not demonstrate itself in the sample project, so I missed it. :( Sorry about that! " [More]
http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/11/12/a-fix-for-simple-html-display-in-silverlight-htmltextblock-bug-fix-for-silverlight-2-rtw.aspx