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Silverlight Video Scrubbing

A common feature of most video players is the ability to ‘scrub’ video or to ‘scrub’ the time line of a video. When we say ‘scrub’ we basically mean being able to change the position of the video by clicking on a line or icon and dragging it along a line that represents the video and the video changes...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 01-02-2008
Quick and Dirty JSON

So you want to write a JSON service for your Silverlight application? Basically this entire thing is a giant hack. first JSON is just the string syntax for JavaScript so it is not like a real protocol of course I get a bit of heart burn calling 'SOAP' a real protocol but really a JavaScript array...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 01-01-2008
Silverlight Firestarter

Come up to Microsoft and check out this free conference they are putting on. I'll be there. You be there too :) November 29, 2007 Microsoft Redmond Campus 1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA Building 33, Kodiak Room ** Please have a photo ID with you to register onsite and park Check-in: 8:00 am Event: 8...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 11-08-2007
Silverlight, JSON and Automatic Design Asset Zip and index generation...

Lets say we have a huge silverlight application. And lets say that we have a lot of images, xaml and media that we use in our application. Silverlight does a great job of allowing us to use downloaders and catch events and deal with it but lets say we want to just do it once. Download everything in one...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 10-23-2007
Popfly goes Beta

Yea, Popfly Beta has gone live and now is open for everyone. I'll have to go in and clean up some of the controls I did...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 10-18-2007
Wiring Silverlight Into the Browser History/Back Button

While watching a presentation Jason Cook was doing on flash he suggested some of the tricks used by other technologies could be used with Silverlight. The trick I was interested in was particularly being able to wire things into the browser history so that the back button of the browser does something...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 10-16-2007
Building a TextBox in Silverlight 1.0...

One of the problems I have seen a lot of is building full blown forms in Silverlight 1.0. For the most part, Silverlight apps have placed HTML over Silverlight. This certainly works, albeit not the ideal situation and Silverlight 1.1 promises to deliver us a real text box. However, in the mean time,...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 09-26-2007
Parsing XML in Silverlight 1.0 - Cross Browser

So the little XML mini me is great for simple stuff but when you really need to do real work with XML you really need a more robust solution that includes a real XML parser. Now that can prove problematic especially when it has to work in lots of browsers. To address this problem with my own work I wrote...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 09-25-2007
Path Performance Issues in Silverlight

So I was talking to Jared and Devin and the other designer/integrator types this morning and some one pointed out that when you create a Path that uses stretch and has a height and width Silverlight takes a huge preformance hit. Not sure why this is as it doen'st appear to be an issue in WPF that...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 09-24-2007
Silverlight Host Loosing Mouse Capture...

So one issue we have had to deal with in Silverlight is loosing Mouse Capture. So inside the context of a silverlight application this isn't an issue. The problem is when we have a small embeded silverlight app, say a media player for instance that we want to be able to be dragged and resized dynamically...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 09-18-2007

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