Category Archives: Silverlight

Silverlight 4 (Beta) unrolling!

By Trond. November 30, 2009

silverlightMicrosoft has really put an effort into the newest version of Silverlight (v4), making it into a fully usable platform for RIA development. I suspect the release of Windows7 has freed up some more resources for the Silverlight team. Microsoft has addressed much of the critique of the previous versions of Silverlight. A lot of new controls, support for data-binding, MP4-video and a lot of development-tools makes Silverlight 4 a platform worth checking out for your next RIA-project. I have scratced a bit on the surface of this upcoming release, and here are some of the reasons why I am looking forward to start with Silverlight 4.

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Expression Blend ScetchFlow

By Lars G. October 16, 2009

On the 23 of October Michael Köster will be visiting Making Waves and do a presentation of Expression Blend and ScetchFlow. I’m very excited since I believe that scetchflow introduces a workflow, that will be a beginning in how interaction design, design, and development can work together in a much more efficient way.

Scetchflow in its current form is nothing more then a template in Blend. But the idea is to use it more as a sketchpad making prototyping much easier. At the moment Blend only support WPF and Silverlight but the idea extends much further.

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Multi touch and Silverlight

By Lars G. October 16, 2009

multitouch

In Silverlight 3 I see a lot of thing to be in the new .net framework and in windows7. Among thoes thing is the capability to work with multi touch. I have not had time to play with this myself yet but relay want to as soon as more multi touch devices are made available.

In the mean while have a look at Tim Heuer post.

Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics

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Water Ripples with Silverlight 2

By Lars G. May 22, 2008

Hi all

After attending mix I have been playing around with Silverlight a bit.. Testing deep zoom and collections.. And while I was browsing around on different blog’s I came across Jo Stegmans Blog, where I could create a dynamic image, and create an png from it.. This inspired me to try to do some animations. This combined with an old algorithm to create 2D Water. I was able to make this. Water rippler..

See the finished result here: Click here

I also have to say thx to Rick Barraz and this blog where I borrowed the Decode BMP algo from :)

This is kind of old school thing but it works great, and I also added some cheesy background music, just to get the right mood :)

The experiences that I have drawn from this is that to do this today cost ha hell og a lot cpu.. Why? Because we have not any direct manipulation methods of the BitmapImage class, and to get your image on to the screen you have to create an encoded stream, in this case of a png Image.

Enjoy

Lars Godejord

Sources:
>Jo Stegmans blog
>2d Water algorithem
>Rick Barraz’s blog

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Designing with Search engine optimization for Silverlight and Ajax in mind

By Lars G. February 1, 2008

This is and is not a tricky thing. Depending on the different search engine strategies you have to set up at best plan of action. I do not know the answer to this and it is probably an subject to constant change. But it would be nice with some feedback on this issue. The fact’s today is that search engines do not read any complex javascript or any markup language like XAML.
After reading different blogs there are 3 thing, in my mind, that will help us on the way:  The site map,  URL rewrites and using tag to describe the content. There are written some interesting blogs which I base this upon.

http://www.nikhilk.net/AjaxSEO.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jhawk/
http://blogs.msdn.com/jhawk/archive/2007/05/23/searching-enabling-silverlight-and-ajax-web-applications.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/05/24/search-engine-optimization-for-silverlight-and-ajax.aspx

Give me your views on this subject :)

Lars Godejord

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Some useful RIA links

By wojciech. January 22, 2008

I believe that those links are worth mentioning, RIA & Flex communities:

Some other very interesting links:

I believe that list of other links, strongly related to the Flex and Actionscript 3, will be also helpful. Please, give me some time to choose some from my bookmarks :)

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