Adam Kinney

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  BugCamSmash in Action!

  AdamKinney Dec 03, 2009 at 10:01 AM 1 Adam Kinney

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  At PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta and announced one of the availability of, one of the most requested features, Web Cam Support.

  Wanting to have fun with the new feature, I thought of a fun sample to create – smashing bugs with motion detection. First step was to get bugs to crawl acr...

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  New Features in Web Platform Installer v2

  AdamKinney Sep 24, 2009 at 2:14 AM 10 Adam Kinney

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  What's new in version 2 of the Web Platform Installer?
  
  Some of you may already know the "one-click install wonder tool", simply as the Web PI. Crystal Hoyer (PM), Andrew Brick (Dev) and Nitasha Verma (Test) came by the studio to talk about the new feat...
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  U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops

  AdamKinney Sep 02, 2009 at 8:54 AM 12 Adam Kinney

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  Dan Hickman from ProModel tells the story of converting their Predictive Troop Resourcing application for the U.S. Army from a Windows Forms application to a Silverlight-based application. Reusing existing .NET code, working with familiar controls from IdeaBlade, an...
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  Importing Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files in Expression Blend 3

  Continuum News Sep 01, 2009 at 10:47 AM 0 Adam Kinney

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  Janete Perez has posted a few blog posts on Photoshop Import in Expression Blend 3 and recently one on Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend 3. The posts are definitely worth checking out if you think will ever need to import graphics into Blend. ...
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  Advanced Silverlight Rendering Techniques from Rick Barraza

  Continuum News Aug 31, 2009 at 10:25 AM 0 Adam Kinney

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  Rick Barraza from Cynergy has been doing some great work showing how to use WritableBitmap and PixelShaders to create some very interesting effects in Silverlight.  Check out both his recent posts Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps and Fluid Dynamics in Silverl...
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  Silverlight Control Template Modification Walkthrough from Dan Wahlin

  Continuum News Aug 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM 0 Adam Kinney

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  Dan Wahlin has posted a tutorial on Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend. He shows how simple it is to update a control's template when it doesn't match the look of your UI. ...
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  A WPF WebBrowser Control that plays nice with layout and transforms

  Continuum News Aug 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM 0 Adam Kinney

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  Chris Cavanagh always seems to pick interesting projects.  This time he's created a new WPF Web Browser control that plays nice with the WPF layout system and can be transformed.
  
  Grab the source code or take a peek at his 3D Browser in the works.
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  Import artwork from Illustrator and easily make a scalable button in Silverlight

  Continuum News Aug 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM 0 Adam Kinney

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  Peter Blois has posted a technique for creating Silverlight control templates from Illustrator artwork. In order to make the custom artwork scale appropriately he makes use of his Silverlight Nine Grid. ...
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  Embed the PDC2009 font in your Silverlight application

  Continuum News Aug 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM 0 Adam Kinney

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  David Isbitski demonstrates how to install the PDC2009 font and then embed it in a Silverlight application. The nice thing is that the Font embed work can be done and customized with just a few clicks in the Font Manager tool in Blend. ...
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  Internet Explorer 8 Web Slice Tutorials Available

  Continuum News Aug 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM 0 Adam Kinney

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  6 tutorials on Web Slices have been posted to MSDN.
  
  "In these short lessons, you will learn how to add Web Slices to an existing Web page. You start with a Web page that contains a fictitious conference schedule, a weather report, and ticket auction for a hit Broadway musical. Initially, th...

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