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Dev Teach 2008 Toronto Canada

looks like we are going to Canada: read more at: http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/2008/08/dev-teach-2008-toronto-canada.html

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 08-19-2008
Control Library on Codeplex

I started a code plex project on code plex... dah... that has a Silverlight control library solution with items from the forth coming book. right now I only did unit tests for 7 of the controls namely multi panel and some of the other panels and then mouse wheel support and browser history... read the...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 07-07-2008
Hacking Silverlight 2 on Amazon

Available for pre order on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Silverlight-2-David-Kelley/dp/1933988576/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213734172&sr=8-1

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 07-07-2008
Silverlight MIX Announcement(s)

In the keynote today Scott G annouced SL 2. is publicly available. very cool. my favorite part whas how much they showed our Entertainment Tonight work in Silverlight. among my favorite features annouced include (I will skip all the new bits Scott put out on his blog last week): check out the rest at...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 03-05-2008
Using the Silverlight 2.0 Xaml StackPanel Element

The next advanced layout element in Xaml is the stack panel. The StackPanel lays out it’s children either horizontally or vertically without having to define the exact location in the visual tree in Xaml. Take the following listing example of a stack panel... read the rest at: http://hackingsilverlight...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 02-28-2008
Using the Silverlight 2.0 Xaml Grid Element

The Grid is basically just that a grid of a set number of colums and rows. Elements in the grid must then be placed into a cell in the grid by setting the Grid.Column and Grid.Row property of the element in questions. To start using a grid you first need to create a grid node. Here is a simple example...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 02-28-2008
Anatomy of a Silverlight Animation

For the most part we should be using Storyboards to do animations. Though it is possible to do programmatic animation and we do sometimes programmatically set properties the Storyboard infrastructure in Silverlight provides a standard easy to use and optimized way to-do animation and is a key tenet of...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 01-30-2008
Video Brush in 5 minutes or less

The Video brush is a great way to do some cool special effects. To make a video brush work on you have to have a named media element that you can bind to. That has a bound source. In the sample below we have a source. We have set the element to be muted but play and its opacity is 0 so no one sees it...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 01-22-2008
Microsoft® Media Encoder™ in 5 minutes or less

Expression Media Encoder is a Microsoft tool in the Microsoft Expression Suite of tools specifically designed to take media content and either tanscode/encode it or produce in a form that can be consumed online in the form of some kind of Silverlight media player and WMV and to integration with Silverlight...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 01-21-2008
Silverlight Streaming in 5 minutes or less

Microsoft as part of the whole Silverlight ‘thing’ has provided a service to allow people to upload videos and get those video streamed along with providing other video streaming services. At the time of me writing this book it is a free service up to 4 gigs of space/video and streams video up to 700kpbs...

Posted to David Kelley (Weblog) by david.kelley on 01-19-2008

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