Gavin Leader
Ramblings on Interactive Web Applications
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Animating Text in Silverlight
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
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. The summary of last week's class can be found on John's blog: http://riathoughts.com/blog/silverlight/silverlight-training-week-1-ndash-introduction-to-silverlight/.
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Calling Silverlight managed code (C#) from the client-side (Javascript)
And here’s how it all looks (aplogies for the screenshot, I'm unable to post Xap files):
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AJAX History control - using with a GridView
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Silverlight 2 - Creating a Play/Pause button using a ControlTemplate
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/> inner property, or it can be built as a resource at the page or application level. We can reference these resources in the control's Style or ControlTemplate property (ControlTemplate can be a child of a Style, making it possible to add additional Setters to that Style).