Entries from April 2008 ↓

Adam Kinney has an excellent 3 part series of posts describing how he built an Xbox Gamecard in Silverlight.
1) Composing the UI
2) Retrieving the Data
3) Updating the UI

In an interview with AppScout Ice Cube and D.J Pooh discuss their new online venture called U View Network www.uvntv.com. The site launched in January and serves real-time video content via Silverlight.

DJ Pooh: We’ve mastered it on all platforms, but Microsoft offered a lot more with Silverlight. They’re gonna give Flash a run for the money. We designed the real-time timeline for a media player, but we figured it out for the future technology. Silverlight gives seamless uninterrupted flow.

What can an 8 year old do with Expression Blend? Whip up some pretty cute Silverlight animations.

Check out what Rob Relyea’s son has been up to.

Tim Sneath has a great set of articles entitled Great WPF Applications where he outlines some outstanding applications built on WPF. The series ran from Jan-Dec 07 but it’s still interesting to see where these applications ended up a year later.

LiquidBoy posts about a digg feed reader he created in Silverlight. He presents a nice overview of his methodology and approach to the build.

MS Live Labs has a free service called PhotoZoom that enables you to quickly create photo collections that use DeepZoom for composition.

It’s a neat app that uses Silverlight as an upload utility. Just point it at some photos, upload, give it a minute, and it creates a DeepZoom Collection with a code nugget to embed it into your page.

The collection below was created in about 30 seconds.

Corrina B over at Ux Musings has a couple of great posts about skinning WPF controls. Her most WPF Control Skin set has a cool organic, hand drawn, feel. In another post she shows examples of more clean colorful looks for WPF.

Here’s a nice live updating WPF graph application posted by Andre de Cavaignac.

ClickOnce and Source available along with tips to add your own data source.

In response to Rob Relyea’s post last week Dr. WPF has posted a neat app that mimics the view menu in Vista with WPF. Source code available for download as well.

Josh smith has a couple of recent articles worth checking out.

Animating Images in a 3D ItemsControl - Creating a custom 3D panel
Understanding Routed Commands - This one blew my mind a little bit. Maybe it was the unicorns, robots, and laser beams. It’s a good read even if you don’t know what the f- you’re doing, like me.

Props.