In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system
on these platforms.
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Software Escrow as a Service with EPS, Silverlight and Azure
Dec 15, 2009 at 8:13 AMI just noticed that I got the bumpers switched up. Hope everyone sticks around for the whole clip even though it looks like it ends before it even gets started.
I'll fix it and re-upload soon.
Skins for WPF and Silverlight
Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PMCool, thanks for your comments. I too was quite confused about styles vs. templates when I first started working with the system. Blend makes it easy, but it also blurs the lines. For example, when you right-click on a button and choose to edit the template, Blend automatically creates a style with a template in it. This makes sense because templates are normally applied using styles and styles allow you to change attributes on the parent. But it isn't really clear why you said you wanted to edit a template and a style was created as well.
Thanks for watching!
Live Framework and Always-Available Social Applications
Jan 27, 2009 at 2:38 PMService Enabling Workflows
Sep 15, 2008 at 8:30 PMService Enabling Workflows
Jul 03, 2008 at 1:10 PMVirtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS
Jun 30, 2008 at 8:38 PMSilverlight Image Search with LINQ to XML
Jun 11, 2008 at 8:04 PMService Enabling Workflows
Apr 28, 2008 at 12:50 PMFrom Code Activity to Custom Activity
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:24 AMI think that's a very interesting and worthwhile effort. Have you thought about making your player in Silverlight?
The player on Channel9 is Silverlight, so the WMV files there are already perfect for streaming and wouldn’t need to be downloaded. The Ajax MediaPlayer control that’s part of the ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions has built in support for time-based subtitles. Or alternatively, with Silverlight 2.0, you could also easily write this in C#. And you’d have easy access to call web services or WCF services back to your transcript repository.
Best yet, you can use Silverlight Streaming to host your player and get free high bandwidth distribution worldwide.
I'll try to contact you through your blog. Let's not distract the discussion from the webcast.