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• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5

  Silverlight Tip of the Day #32   Title : How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.html Silverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title : Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Terrain%20Transititions/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #31 Title : How to Detect Alt, Shift, Control, Windows and Apple keys with Left Mouse Down in Silverlight Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Left%20Mouse%20Down/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 : Title : Fast Sprite Animation in Silverlight Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Fast%20Sprites... Posted Aug 26 2008, 01:13 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Visual Studio, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, msnow, silverlight resources, Beta 2, Mike Snow

• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 4

  7 new Silverlight blogs have been completed. Check them out and let me know if you have any questions. Tip of the Day #23 – How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event Tip of the Day #24 : How to Apply a XAML Template to a Class 3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games Terrain Tutorial Part 1 – Creating a Scrolling Map Tip of the Day #25: How to Build the XAP File to the Debug/Release Folders Tip of the Day #26: How to Change the Output XAP File Name. Tip of the Day #27: How to Change the Mouse Cursor Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More... Posted Aug 14 2008, 02:51 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Tips and Tricks, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, msnow, silverlight resources, Mike Snow

• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 3

  3 new Silverlight blogs have been completed for this week. Check them out! GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Tip of the Day #22 - How to add Sound Effects, Music and Video to your Silverlight App. Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More... Posted Jul 25 2008, 03:09 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight resources, Beta 2 Silverlight

• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 2

  6 new Silverlight tutorials are completed! Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight. Tip of the Day #16 - StoryBoard versus DispatcherTimer for Animation and Game Loops. Tip of the Day #17 - How to Animate a Rotating Image. Tip of the Day #18 - How to Set Browser Cookies. Tip of the Day #19 - Using Isolated Storage. Tip of the Day #20 - How to Increase the Isolated Storage Quota for your App. Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More... Posted Jul 17 2008, 05:19 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Visual Studio, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, msnow, silverlight resources, Mike Snow

• What’s new with Silverlight Tools Beta 2!

  A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below. WCF templates for Silverlight Enabled. Build configurations. XAML Validation now reports build errors. Setup Improvements. Projects created in Beta 1 are prompted for conversion when opening to Beta 2. Linking a Web Site to a Silverlight Application. 1. WCF Templates for Silverlight Enabled. WCF templates are now enabled for Silverlight. If you want to add Web Services to your Silverlight application, this is the route to go. To do this, right click on your web site node in the Solution Explorer and choose “Add New Item”. This will bring up the “Add New Item” dialog. Choose the... Posted Jun 06 2008, 02:59 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: Visual Studio, Announcements, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight resources, Beta 2, Mike Snow