December 2007 - Posts
Kirupa has created a nice WPF sample that shows how to create falling snow animation in WPF in code. Check out his post here . I haven't seriously looked at the source yet, but I may translate this to Silverlight just for grins. Share this post: Email
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When I was little, I had something similar to the 3' Saturn V sold by Toys R Us here , a space shuttle (based on the prototype), and a bunch of rocket posters , maps and solar system posters , on my walls along with the usual Star Wars stuff. For
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I hope you all have (or had) a Merry Christmas! I just finished up helping Santa put some presents under the tree for our boy (he'll be two in February). Now I'm down here removing all the old alphas and betas and installing the latest VS and
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Fellow AISer Frank La Vigne has put together a great set of posts covering how he built the Christmas is Going to the Dogs Silverlight Christmas Card. If you are doing anything in Silverlight, check them out. Tutorials: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The Christmas
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Microsoft Expression Encoder includes a number of attractive templates for creating quick media players for video and audio run through Encoder. A side effect of that is that you get access to unmanaged Silverlight source for some slick media players.
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Inspired by the Christmas Special intro I blogged about in Christmas 2.0 and his love of all things canine, fellow AIS er Frank La Vigne has put together this great Christmas card using Silverlight. He combines music, vector graphics, animation, and a
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Despite attempts by weathermen to scare off attendees with talk of snow and ice, the Malvern Firestarter event was a great success. Illustrating the interest in Silverlight, the event filled two rooms even though an equally interesting XNA and Robotics
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Back in October, Brian Eastwood from SearchWinDevelopment.com attended my session at ReMIX07 in Boston, and later wrote up an article based on that. A week or so back, Brian also interviewed me for a podcast regarding our Silverlight work at AIS , specifically
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The Philly Silverlight Firestarter is coming up soon. Here's some recent traffic on it from Tim Heuer and Dani Diaz . I encourage you to register if you haven't already. It's going to be a fun day, and I feel honored and excited to be able
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