March 2008 - Posts

Monday, March 24, 2008 3:24 PM

Experience new Silverlight skins

Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough,
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Monday, March 10, 2008 12:52 AM

Silverlight 2.0: Creating a basic animation through code

In my previous Silverlight post, I mentioned Silverlight 2.0 API now allows creating animations through code. While this wasn't possible with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha [you would have to create of piece of Xaml, declaring a storyboard with all animations
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:50 AM

Installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview

If you're considering installing Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview over Expression Blend 2 December Preview, make sure you uninstall the December Preview first, and then continue with March Preview installation. When doing vice versa, you'll lose
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Friday, March 07, 2008 4:13 PM

First couple of days with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

Here's some notes on my first experience with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1: Installation Runtime - quick, smooth. Like it's supposed to be. Tools for Visual Studio 2008 - if running Alpha version of the tools, you'll have to uninstall it first. During the install,
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:11 PM

Mix'n'stuff

As expected, a lot of stuff was shown and discussed on the MIX08 keynote today: eight - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ( download ): better standards compliance, backward compatible mode, faster faster JavaScript implementation, embedded debugging tools,
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