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Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 – Setting Default Browser from within VS

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 – Setting Default Browser from within VS

From within VS you can specify which Internet browser you want launched when running your Silverlight application. Your default system browser is not affected by this setting. To make this change right click on your startup web page and choose Browse...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration

With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta 1 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration (or hardware acceleration) is now available. The GPU is a processor attached to your graphics card that is generally used for calculating floating point operations. In...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 – Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 – Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs

Of the course of the last year I have been collecting links to some really good Silverlight tutorial blogs that I thought I would share with you. These are active blogs, frequently updated, that are specifically oriented to teaching Silverlight development...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations

When calculating the positions of objects such as Images make certain to use integer values not floating point values. For example, take a look at this code that centers a map around a given position: private void CenterMap( double windowWidth, double...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 - Bypassing the Image Cache

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 - Bypassing the Image Cache

By default Silverlight will not download an image more than once if is contained within the image cache. That is, as long as the URI remains the same it will reference the image from the cache. So what if the image changed on the server even though it...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 – Silverlight 3 Beta 1 Feature Summary

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 – Silverlight 3 Beta 1 Feature Summary

Unless you have had your head under a rock you probably have heard Silverlight 3 Beta 1 has been released! If you haven’t already, please install it from http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx This release comes packed with some of...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #100 – ComponentArt Controls

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #100 – ComponentArt Controls

I recently had the opportunity to try out the controls from ComponentArt.com . I was very impressed with their ease of use, professional design and overall quality. Also, their staff are very prompt to responding to questions which made my developer experience...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #99 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #99 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book

I would like to announce that I am currently working on a book titled “ Silverlight Game Programming ” due to be released around June this year! You can find it on Amazon by clicking here . It’s taking most of my blogging time up so I apologize for the...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models - EnvyGames

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models - EnvyGames

I recently stumbled across a cool tool by EnvyGames that allows you to generate sprites from 3D Models and their animation files. This tool, called SpriteWorks , is ideal for creating high quality sprite animations and one that I’ll be adding to my arsenal...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – How to get an Image’s Source File Name

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – How to get an Image’s Source File Name

Once you have an image loaded how do you go back and get the original file name for the source file? This can be accomplished through the Uri property of the images Source . However, you must first typecast the images Source to be a BitmapImage . The...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE

If you ever run into this error when running your application you might be a bit perplexed by its encrypted meaning. Looking at the exceptions details you will see something like which really doesn’t help you very much: System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes

When it comes to drawing shapes such as rectangles you are probably fully aware you can draw shapes specifying the color and thickness of the lines. This is done via the properties StrokeThickness and Stroke . For example, take a look at the rectangle...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #94 – Reading XML through LINQ with Silverlight

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #94 – Reading XML through LINQ with Silverlight

In Tip of the Day #93 I showed you how to read XML via XmlReader . However, a better and simpler approach (IMHO) would be to use LINQ. Let’s start with the same XML file we used in Tip #93. <?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "utf-8"...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #93 – Reading XML with Silverlight

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #93 – Reading XML with Silverlight

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a great format for saving structured data in. In this Tip I will be showing you how to read and process XML files from Silverlight using the XmlReader object. Let’s say, for example, you want to store a tree structure...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #92 – How to Load Images from a Stream

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #92 – How to Load Images from a Stream

In Tip of the Day #86 I showed you how to load external images not included in the project such as images on the web. In this Tip I will be showing you had to load images from the client’s machine through a file stream. Due to obvious security reasons...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #91 – How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #91 – How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit

In addition to controls, the Silverlight Toolkit comes with a great set of themes that can easily be applied to your controls. These themes currently include: Bureau Black Bureau Blue Expression Dark Expression Light Rainier Purple Rainier Orange Shiny...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #90 – How to Edit your CSPROJ File from VS

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #90 – How to Edit your CSPROJ File from VS

The CSPROJ file, saved in XML format, stores all the references for your project including your compilation options. There is also a SLN file which stores information about projects that make up your solution. If you are using Visual Studio and have the...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #89 – How to use String Resources

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #89 – How to use String Resources

In this Tip I will be showing you how to place hard coded strings into a resource area. This is a common best practice for software development that makes it much easier to manage the strings in your application. To start, open up your App.xaml file and...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #88 – How to handle image AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR errors

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #88 – How to handle image AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR errors

If you have ever worked with images while developing and running Silverlight app you have more than likely come across the AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR exception. This exception is thrown if an image was not able to load for whatever reason (I.e. it couldn...(read more) (more)

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #87 – How to Change the Startup Class

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #87 – How to Change the Startup Class

When a Silverlight application is launched the entry point is a class that inherits from System.Windows.Application. By default, when you create a new Silverlight application project, this would be your App class which gets defined in App.xaml.cs. You...(read more) (more)

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