In one of my last posts I wrote about the Silverlight Surface demo of the "photo table". If you had a look on the live demo you only see images, no video. I have added this because it is a very great idea to do it with Silverlight and the high media support inside. I setup a online version and the source...

During the last days I have added some new tutorials and examples to my list. Dave Campbell sent me a short message that he has already a kind of Silverlight examples collection. Have a look on his list of Silverlight tagged articles he wrote and external Silverlight examples as well . There is starting...

While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers . The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth connection is enough. Combining this project with...

More than half a year ago Dave Campbell , Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF . A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect: The example above is built with rectangles in the first line of boxes. The second...

To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight to be able to develop and show some demos. While visiting some web sites from Microsoft I got a small popup showing me that I can get a better...

You may have noticed that the Silverlight web site at Microsoft.com has been updated. Well, I looks nicer than before, I like it. The system requirements are available here . For those of you that are trying to watch the virtual launch event ( Heroes Happen Here ) of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008...

The next beta of Silverlight 2 is available online since yesterday. Another announcement appeared in the news is that Silverlight (maybe only version 1.0 for now) will be available on Windows Mobile 6  and Nokia S60 and S40. Last evening I could add an Silverlight 2 control on my .NET Micro Framework...

Corrina Barber has publish four different Silverlight control skin sets that looks very nice and shows the power of skinning in Silverlight .         See online previews of each skin: http://www.corrina_b.members.winisp.net/skins/bubbly/Testpage.html http://www.corrina_b.members.winisp...

I came across a great post about updated Silverlight 2 roadmap . Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap. When exactly will Silverlight support all the codecs that a standard...

I decided to try out Expression Blend 2.5 beta by creating a four stroke engine animation. A screen capture is shown below: You can see a working demo here (Silverlight 2 plugin required) Here are a few observations while working on this project. Writing XAML by hand is difficult :-) Expression Blend...