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Meet SilverlightShow at MIX and Get a FREE T-shirt

Emil Stoychev (on the left), who is one of the SilverlightShow members, is going to join the MIX10 conference and he has prepared some gifts for the people who meet him. If you see him, don't hesitate to say hi and get a free T-shirt with the
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Mar 11 2010 09:42 PM
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Submit Your Articles to SilverlightShow Even Easier Than Before

SilverlightShow is happy to announce that there is a new easier way for the users to submit their articles. Now, by using Windows Live Writer, you can do this in just a few minutes. If you have ever submitted your article in a blog, you must be already
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Mar 11 2010 05:25 PM
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Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest Community Vote Winner

Next in our series of interviews with SilverlightShow Eco Contest winners is the Community Vote winner Cigdem Patlak. We talk about her expectations for MIX, sessions she would be most willing to attend, people she would like to meet there, and of course
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Mar 11 2010 03:17 PM
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Animating an Opacity Mask with a Behavior

Phil Middlemiss describes a behavior he has written that allows you to create an Opacity Mask that can be animated. An Opacity Mask "layer" allows for animation, so you can do things like a moving spot light revealing parts of an image, or have a foggy
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Mar 11 2010 02:30 PM
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XAML RadControls Q1 2010 Official

Find out more about the new release of XAML RadControls in the blog post of Nikolay Atanasov from Telerik. Q1 2010 release focuses on strengthening 3 main aspects of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF: Ensuring first-class performance
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Mar 11 2010 02:20 PM
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Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest Grand Prize Winner

The 3 winners in SilverlightShow Eco Contest are already getting packed for MIX10 in Vegas! Before they fly away, we catch them to talk about their expectations for MIX, sessions they would be most willing to attend, people they would like to meet there,
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Mar 11 2010 02:19 PM
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Space Rocks, Building a Silverlight Game

Bill Reiss has posted the first two parts of his series on building a Silverlight game called SpaceRocks. On step one he describes the game loop and step two is dedicated to Sprites. Most games require a game loop which is simply a method that executes
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Mar 11 2010 01:59 PM
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Silverlight 4 Webcam Demo

In this tutorial Viktor Larsson demonstrates how to use the WebCam in Silverlight 4. During my visit to Finland last month, I got the opportunity to demonstrate some of the new features in Silverlight 4 in demo-form. Today, I’ll review the webcam demo.
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Mar 11 2010 01:45 PM
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General Purpose Sprite Class

Cameron Albert has posted some general base sprite classes which are intended to be used with the SilverSprite framework. These classes all exist in an assembly I lovingly call the “Shady Engine” (to explain the namespaces) The base class I used is
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Mar 11 2010 01:29 PM
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EasyPainter: Lion Hair styling

Nokola demonstrates how to apply a hair style to a lion by using EasyPainter. Effects used: Color shift for the eyes, followed by Brigthness. Waves for the "hair" and a finishing touch of Life-like.
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Mar 11 2010 01:14 PM
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Interview with Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty on Silverlight

Gavin Wignall had a chance to have an exclusive interview focused on Silverlight with both Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty. It’s great to be here today and have a chance to ask these Microsoft gurus some Silverlight questions. I will be asking a mixed bag of
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Mar 11 2010 12:50 PM
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WCF RIA Services Silverlight Business Application – Using ASP.NET SiteMap for Navigation

This blog post of Fredrik Normén is about using the ASP.NET SiteMap together with WCF RIA Services and the Navigation feature added to Silverlight. The examples in this blog post uses the Silverlight Business Application template shipped with WCF RIA
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Mar 11 2010 12:32 PM
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How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 2

Introduction This is the second and conclusive article about an example of a Bing Maps extension using Silverlight. Let me briefly recall the objective: in the first article I wrote about the need which may arise when planning an itinerary, I underlined
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Mar 11 2010 03:56 AM
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Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations

I think some of you may have developed an application that requires a lot of roundtrips on the server to retrieve data to be displayed to the user. Every time your application goes to the server it may have to wait for long running query to end its
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Mar 10 2010 05:43 PM
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Free Silverlight 3 Theme

After launching the Silverlight 4 beta Blackspike theme, Felix Corke had a lot of people asking for a Silverlight 3 version, so he knocked one up here. This is the much requested Silverlight 3 version of my Blackspike theme – same rules apply, you can
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Mar 10 2010 03:36 PM
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Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog

In this post Mike Taulty is playing with the DeploymentCatalog in Silverlight 4 again. The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs – namely AssemblyCatalog, TypeCatalog and AggregateCatalog. They’re pretty easy to understand and
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Mar 10 2010 12:57 PM
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Some great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources

David Anson has updated his collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources. My many thanks go out to everyone who has spent time helping people learn how to use Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization!
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Mar 10 2010 12:40 PM
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Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight

Adam Kinney has a list with 17 tools that you need to know about when working with Silverlight. I’ve created my list of favorites tools and libraries and posted them to the Downloads page on the Project Rosetta site. After posting the updated list
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Mar 09 2010 04:06 PM
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Uploading and downloading images from WCF in Silverlight

Uploading and downloading images using a WCF service with Silverlight Quite often, when browsing the web, we encounter a situation where we are required to upload a file. When I want to register myself on a forum, I often get the question if I want to
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Mar 09 2010 02:11 PM
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Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, Part 1

Bobby Diaz has created a nice Bing Maps application that shows the location and relative strength of recent seismic activity. The recent wave of earthquakes (no pun intended) being reported in the news got me wondering about the frequency and severity of
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Mar 09 2010 02:07 PM
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MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 6b: Wrapping IClientChannel

In his last MVVM with Prism post, Mark J. Miller talks about wrapping IClientChannel. I could have used the title “Ditching Client Service Proxy” or “Avoiding Add Service Reference”, but that’s not what the meat of the post is about. However, that is
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Mar 09 2010 01:50 PM
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1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight

Christopher Bennage has a blog post about commands in Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 is now supporting the commanding that we’ve come to love from WPF. Commanding was a foundational feature for MVVM. It’s what enabled us to bind to methods on our view
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Mar 09 2010 01:33 PM
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A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3

Jeff Wilcox has adapted a syntax highlighting engine to generate a syntax highlighting TextBlock control for Silverlight. Add the control assembly to your Silverlight project. Then, add an XMLNS prefix to your Silverlight page where you’d like to use the
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Mar 09 2010 01:18 PM
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Cool demonstration of Silverlight VideoBrush

Tim Greenfield has a demonstration of a fun and novel use of the VideoBrush in Silverlight. Silverlight provides a variety of brushes that can be used to paint just about any area in your app: from text to shapes to borders. The most common brushes are
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Mar 09 2010 01:02 PM
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25 Inspiring Silverlight Websites, Videos and Customer Stories

Arturo Toledo has published a list with the coolest Silverlight videos, websites and customer stories. As part of the CRE8 Conference last week in Miami, August de los Reyes and I presented a collection of the cool videos, websites and customer stories.
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Mar 09 2010 12:43 PM
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How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

Introduction One of the things I found missing in the current Bing Maps product is the possibility to create an elevation surface profile of routes. Perhaps this feature may not seem much on demand but actually affects more people than expected. Think
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Mar 08 2010 08:33 PM
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Watermark Textbox Part III

The final part of the tutorial of Phil Middlemiss on building a Watermarked TextBox control is now here. In Part 1 and Part 2 Phil created the visual elements for the Watermarked TextBox UserControl In this conclusion to the tutorial, we write a little
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Mar 08 2010 03:16 PM
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Free Silverlight 4 Beta Theme

Felix Corke has designed a theme called Blackspike using the new Implicit Style feature. I am playing with Silverlight 4 beta a lot at the moment, and one of its best features is the new Implicit Styles. This means that I can design a Silverlight theme
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Mar 08 2010 02:50 PM
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InvalidOperation_EnumFailedVersion when binding data to a Silverlight Chart

Jim Lynn had a problem when binding data to a Silverlight Toolkit chart and decided to post the workaround in case someone else needs it. We’re releasing an analytics application in Silverlight to people inside the BBC. Today is release day, and we had
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Mar 08 2010 01:09 PM
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Past and current state of Smooth Streaming Development

Ola Karlsson has published this post in which he shares his experiences with Smooth Streaming development. Over the last year, a rather large part of my development work has included working with IIS Smooth Streaming, especially in relation to
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Mar 08 2010 12:56 PM
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How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart

David Anson has written a post about rotating the axis labels of a chart. When someone asked me how to rotate the axis labels of a chart from the Data Visualization package of the Silverlight Toolkit/WPF Toolkit earlier today, I realized it was time for
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Mar 08 2010 12:38 PM
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Enhancing Silverlight Video Experiences with Contextual Data

Jit Ghosh has a great post about Smooth Streaming with Silverlight and adding context data to your video. There are two primary requirements for enabling a glitch-free viewing experience in Web-based, high-definition digital video delivery. First, the
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Mar 08 2010 12:26 PM
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XAML Attributes on Separate Lines

In this post, Christopher Bennage demonstrates how to get all your XAML attributes on separate lines by using Visual Studio. I initially started using this option because it made code samples easier to read (especially when going to print). However, a
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Mar 08 2010 12:12 PM
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"What's New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev

Shawn Wildermuth announces that his "What's New in Silverlight 3" video has been just released. Last fall I visited 0redev in Sweden and gave a "What's New in Silverlight 3" talk. THey've just released the video if you interested in wathcing it.
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Mar 08 2010 11:58 AM
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DotNetNuke® Silverlight Traffic Module

Michael Washington has created a simple module that tracks the visitors to a page for the current day and the past hour, and displays the results using Silverlight gauges. This application is more of an example of what is possible with Silverlight and
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Mar 08 2010 11:37 AM
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Transforming an Ugly Duckling into a Graceful Swan With Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part 2 Intro Animation

Introduction In the first part of the series, I introduced the application, and created the “ugly duckling” version, where the end user could already browse the and watch the videos. In this part, I am going to add some bling to the app – namely the
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Mar 05 2010 11:32 PM
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Watermarked Textbox Part II

Part II of the tutorial of Phil Middlemiss on building a Watermarked Textbox control is now here. In the first post Phil created the visual elements for the WatermarkedTextbox user control. In Part II we finish defining the visual elements, and create
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Mar 05 2010 03:04 PM
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Twisting Navigation

If you are tired of using menues or buttons to let the user navigate your website then this Twisting Navigation example created by LawBot might be the right navigation surface. I implemented some projections to let it twist along the zero point of the x
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Mar 05 2010 12:58 PM
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Linq to Visual Tree

This blog post of Colin Eberhardt demonstrates a Linq API which can be used to query the WPF / Silverlight Visual Tree. What I will provide here is a brief overview of the Linq to Visual Tree API. The full sourcecode for this API is at the end of this
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Mar 05 2010 12:51 PM
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Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development

In this short blog post, Tim Heuer presents the book of Josh Smith titled Advanced MVVM. The book is about 50-ish printed pages and is a quick read. It covers creating a simple and common game, Bubble Burst, using the MVVM pattern. The code is all WPF,
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Mar 05 2010 12:37 PM