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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...
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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. ...
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Calling Silverlight managed code (C#) from the client-side (Javascript) by gavinleader

Even though we write managed code to build Silverlight apps, it all exists on the client side, so we need to be able to have html and Silverlight interact without hitting the server-side. This is built into Silverlight 2, and is very similar to exposing...
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AJAX History control - using with a GridView by gavinleader

The History control allows web applications to inject browser history checkpoints based on the state of a AJAX control. The History control can store the state of a single serializable object, or can take a Dictionary < string , object > pairing...
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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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