August 25th, 2007 — Silverlight, WPF, XAML
Delay’s Blog has a nice proof of concept that demonstrates how to create an XPS reader in WPF/Silverlight. He has made the source code available for download.
Since getting involved with Silverlight and finding out the XPS document type WPF enables has XAML at its core, I’ve been wondering how Silverlight would do as a lightweight XPS viewer.
August 23rd, 2007 — WPF
Ok, so here is yet another WPF Ribbon Control, this time coming from Actipro Software.
Ribbon has been designed from the ground up to follow WPF best practices, be extremely configurable, use a command-driven model, and allow for reproduction of nearly all the user interface features found in Office.
For those keeping score, we previously mentioned the Ribbon Control offerings from Divelements and DevComponents. Anyone want to chime in on this package from Actipro?
August 23rd, 2007 — Expression Blend, Silverlight, Video, WPF
Microsoft launched a new Windows Forms and WPF Community site. There’s lots of good stuff there, Silverlight and WPF video tutorials, control galleries, downloadable WPF samples, forums and more. Worth a look.
August 22nd, 2007 — Silverlight, WPF
This week Microsoft quietly launched Tafiti (Swahili word for “do research”).
Tafiti is a search application built in Silverlight on top of Windows Live search. You can view results in Images, The Web, Books, RSS and News. On the right side of the screen are buckets where you can drag and drop content for viewing later.
August 18th, 2007 — OSX, Silverlight
According to this blog post on the Netflix community site. Steve, who says he’s in charge of instant watching on Netflix, is hinting at using Silverlight to get around DRM issues on OSX.
A key issue for delivering movies online is that the studios require use of DRM (Digital Rights Management) to protect titles. And that’s our holdup for the Mac - there’s not yet a studio-sanctioned, publicly-available Mac DRM solution (Apple doesn’t license theirs). I can promise you that, when an approved solution becomes available for the Mac, we’ll be there. I’ll also say that Silverlight 1.1 looks like a promising candidate - but that its DRM isn’t likely to be fully available until 2008.
August 18th, 2007 — Expression Blend, Silverlight, WPF
According to BetaNews, Microsoft has released an update to Updates Expression Blend.
Microsoft on Thursday released an updated preview of Expression Blend 2, the next version of its interface design tool that integrates into Silverlight, Microsoft’s new Web-based platform for rich media that is competing with Flash. Most notably, the August update supports Visual Studio 2008, which is also in beta.
August 9th, 2007 — Linux, Silverlight, WPF
Miguel de Icaza announced this week that they’ve got Silverlight Chess working on Mono’s Moonlight. Nice.
Between Chris and Jackson the javascript bridge is complete enough that a few hours later (after fixing a double free) it is now possible to have the Mono VM play against the browser Javascript in Firefox/Linux as well:
August 9th, 2007 — Expression Blend, Silverlight, WPF
Shawn Wildermuth at Computerworld has an interesting article on the 10 Things You Should Know About Microsofts Silverlight
Topics include:
Source - Computerworld.com
August 8th, 2007 — WPF
Mark Johnston has posted a video tutorial on using ink in Silverlight applications.
Very handy if you’re designing an application for Tablet PC’s or Kiosks.
A brief introduction to using an InkPresenter element to receive ink based input from users. First, we introduce the InkPresenter element in XAML and follow-up with the code (C#) to capture and process the input.
August 7th, 2007 — Silverlight, Video, WPF
This week MLB.com rolled out a Silverlight video player on some of their article pages.
I think it’s great that MLB adopted Silverlight so early after the RC1 player release. But I have to say that the implementation seems a little shotty to me. I had issues with the controls hanging when I was trying to Pause/Play the video and dragging the scrub bar is glitchy.
It also looks like they used bitmapped graphics on the control buttons which aren’t scaling well. Try comparing the article player to the full player to see what I mean.
I know, I know,.. it says “Beta” in the upper right corner and I do applaud MLB for adopting Silverlight. I just know they can do better, and I wouldn’t want anyone to think this is the best Silverlight has to offer. Hopefully they’ll get it tightened up soon.
Via - Mike Harsh’s Blog
