September 2008 - Posts
I’d love to dig into the code and see what he’s doing to get that kind of FPS. The key part of the pipeline to understand would be the creation of the per-frame bitmaps and the subsequent blitting on the screen. I’ve seen dynamic PNG creation, but that
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This has been a crazy summer, but since our daughter has decided not to show up on her due date (which was September 24). I finally got some time to sit down and read a pre-release of Manning’s Silverlight 2 in Action . I know the two authors who wrote
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The registration link for the MSDN geekSpeak I’ll be doing with Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie is now up. Register for the event here . The event is 12:00 Pacific (3:00pm eastern) time on Wednesday October 22, 2008. I’ll be covering how to build Facebook
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While promised early on, this one seemingly snuck in under the radar :) Silverlight 2 now has the CompositionTarget.Rendering event. So now, if you want to do something each frame, this is one place where you can do it. You’ll want to do some testing
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This tip is somewhat buried at the end of my RC0 introductory post . However, I can’t emphasis enough that the main reason you get initialization errors or the WSOD (White Screen of Death) in Silverlight 2 is problems in your visual states. There
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Read from this what you will. This is Scott Guthrie replying to a post on his blog. Emphasis below is mine. # re: Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available Friday, September 26, 2008 10:09 AM by ScottGu Hi Ian, >>>>>>>> Great
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By now, you probably heard that Silverlight 2 RC0 is out and available for download . While you’ll find that the breaking changes are fewer (or less significant) than those from Beta 1 to Beta 2, there are still some details to pay attention to.
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What's up with the new spinning ASCII art in Microsoft installers? (from http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ all of Star Wars as animated ASCII art) Ok, well, not quite as bad as that <g>, but you've seen it: | / - \ | / - \ | When it cycles like that,
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One one of many pre-sales visits to different clients over the years, I found myself at a local dotcom in DC. It was filled with early-20’s VPs and fresh out of college developers who had a head a little too big for their skills. I love passion, but non-academic
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My primary Silverlight project for the past couple months has been the Facebook application I’ve been writing for the Microsoft East Coast Developer, Partner and Architect Evangelists: MSDN East Coast News. For those of you curious about building Facebook
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Here are some of the talks I’ll be doing in the next month and a half or so. Wednesday October 22 MSDN geekSpeak webcast : Building Facebook applications with Silverlight 2 . We’ll cover some of the challenges and some tips and tidbits for building applications
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[Please Read the Entire Post!] I’ve spent a good bit of time watching this grow, so I’m pretty excited to say that we’re expecting a huge v2 release in just seven days (September 24, 2008). I don’t know about you all, but I’m
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Other events got in the way, so I never did get a chance to blog this last month. Dr Z. from Microsoft posted the recordings from the joint Silverlight TechFest session we did right after the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 back in June. The Silverlight
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One of the greatest things about blogs is the ability to have a dialog with your readers. While the comments mechanism is far from perfect in that respect, it works well enough to at least be useful. My own blog requires a CAPTCHA, something I’m looking
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I’m putting the finishing touches on our first beta of MSDN East Coast News and decided to provide a customized install experience. The out of the box installation experience looks like this: That works, but really isn’t acceptable for this application.
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