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In a previous post I demonstrated how templates could be used along with styles in Silverlight 2 applications to customize controls. By using templates you can change colors, shapes, sizes and much more on a given control. Here’s an example of a standard Silverlight 2 Button control with a custom template applied: The template applied to the ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:00 PM: CapArea.NET: Brian Noyed on Composite WPF Applications - When you build a big UI application, the code can quickly grow complex and tightly coupled. Composite Application Guidance for WPF is a set of guidance ...

For those not at the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA today, you are missed a good show. Here’s what happened: David Solivan – David presented a talk called UI, UX, U confused? The purpose was to show the various options we have and to explain when one option may be better than another by stepping through the design process. There’s a URL ...

We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update programs to enable them to automatically deploy across ...

 MSDN Developer Conference – Great new perks just announced Cool Giveaways The MSDN Developer Conference will not only WOW you with the coolest sessions from the PDC but you will also be in the running to win one of 3 Lego NXT Robotics Kits and the WROX Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio book. Other giveaways include a Gamer Backpack ...

Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful ...

I finished up my talks at ASP.NET Connections yesterday and wanted to get the code posted as well as links for the additional topics covered in the Silverlight animation session.  Here they are: Building N-Tier ASP.NET Applications with LINQ Code Silverlight 2 Animations Code SilverlightFX Farseer Physics Engine for ...

  So, you couldn’t make PDC this year? Watching recorded sessions not quite doing it for you? Missing the interaction with Microsoft folks and industry experts? Well, do we have a fantastic event for you! Come to the Atlanta, GA MSDN Developer Conference on December 16th at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. Right here in your ...

Some of you maybe remember that I had added some security related features in Ajax.NET Professional. It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography namespace on the client – before it was not very easy to encrypt a string without any plug-in ...

Yesterday I have noticed that the Windows Media Center web site has added an Silverlight application that is showing how the Windows Media Center on Windows Vista is working. Hey, I did this with one of the first beta versions of Silverlight, but not as impressive as the demo. Well, since Silverlight has streaming support in HD quality I had ...