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Animating Text in Silverlight by gavinleader

Text animations in Silverlight have been really dissapointing in the past. Especially with zooming, text motion looked extremely choppy. However Silverlight 3 includes a text rendering option that significantly improves text rendering - TextHintingMode...

Introduction to Silverlight Controls by gavinleader

This introduction to Silverlight Controls is the topic of the second week of a Silverlight class that John Stockton and I are beginning at Ascentium .  Last week we gave a more high-level review of the Silverlight plug-in and an intro to XAML. ...

Silverlight 2 - Creating a Play/Pause button using a ControlTemplate by gavinleader

A Button is one of the most common elements used in an interactive application. In Silverlight 2, it is possible to specify nearly any control’s appearance by using a ControlTemplate. The control’s template can be defined within the control’s <ControlTemplate...
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