Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Silverlight Toolkit Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Silverlight Toolkit http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/silverlight-toolkit Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/silverlight-toolkit en Thu, 23 May 2013 09:11:54 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 09:11:54 GMT Rev9 3 1 25 Top Ranked - Control Feedback on Tap In this episode, I focus on another small tweak that developers can add to their apps that will help make those apps look a lot more like native apps.  I’m referring to the addition of the Tilt Effect to controls.  By default, when you add controls to the canvas in Visual Studio or Expression Blend they do not get the tilt effect.  This may seem like a small thing but as I’ve mentioned before the experience is something that users will notice and their ratings and as a result your rankings will be affected by that. 

The thing is, that there is, in fact, a really easy way to add the tilt effect to your apps using the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit .  You can grab the source code for that from Codeplex or, even easier, you can just pull it in to your project and reference it using Nuget.

Adding the Tilt Effect is as simple as adding the namespace for the toolkit and then adding the effect to either the individual controls or to the entire page.  In most cases it shouldn’t take you more than a few seconds on each of the pages in your project so there’s really no reason for you not to take advantage of this.

Let me know what you think about this episode of Top Ranked.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Top-Ranked/Top-Ranked-Control-Feedback-on-Tap In this episode, I focus on another small tweak that developers can add to their apps that will help make those apps look a lot more like native apps.  I’m referring to the addition of the Tilt Effect to controls.  By default, when you add controls to the canvas in Visual Studio or Expression Blend they do not get the tilt effect.  This may seem like a small thing but as I’ve mentioned before the experience is something that users will notice and their ratings and as a result your rankings will be affected by that.  The thing is, that there is, in fact, a really easy way to add the tilt effect to your apps using the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit .  You can grab the source code for that from Codeplex or, even easier, you can just pull it in to your project and reference it using Nuget. Adding the Tilt Effect is as simple as adding the namespace for the toolkit and then adding the effect to either the individual controls or to the entire page.  In most cases it shouldn’t take you more than a few seconds on each of the pages in your project so there’s really no reason for you not to take advantage of this. Let me know what you think about this episode of Top Ranked. If you have questions about any of the videos, about problems or issues you’re hitting or if you have topics that you think would be of interest to other devs on the Windows Phone platform then drop me a note. I’d be particularly interested in hearing about some of the best practices you’ve adopted that you think have raised your quality or your ratings/ranking in the Marketplace. I’ll be sure to give full credit and link love whenever I can. The Top Ranked series is hosted on Channel 9. You can view all the past videos there. You can also subscribe to the entire series via Zune or iTunes. All that is available here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Top-Ranked Let me know what you think by dropping me a note via the comment form below. Or better yet follow me on twitter 468 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Top-Ranked/Top-Ranked-Control-Feedback-on-Tap Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:46:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Top-Ranked/Top-Ranked-Control-Feedback-on-Tap Ben Riga Ben Riga 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Top-Ranked/Top-Ranked-Control-Feedback-on-Tap/RSS Silverlight Toolkit Windows Phone Windows Phone Marketplace Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 2 Jafar explains how the Silverlight Toolkit uses Reactive Extensions. Jafar was one of the early adopters of Rx, in fact the Silverlight Toolkit was the first product to redistribute Rx.

Yesterday in part 1, Jafar showed a sample of how his team uses Rx in the product code

In part 2, Jafar shows how Rx is used to test Silverlight UI.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-2 Jafar explains how the Silverlight Toolkit uses Reactive Extensions. Jafar was one of the early adopters of Rx, in fact the Silverlight Toolkit was the first product to redistribute Rx. Yesterday in part 1, Jafar showed a sample of how his team uses Rx in the product code In part 2, Jafar shows how Rx is used to test Silverlight UI. 394 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-2 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:21:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-2 Jeffrey van Gogh Jeffrey van Gogh 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-2/RSS Reactive Extensions Rx Silverlight Silverlight Toolkit Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 1 Silverlight Toolkit uses Reactive Extensions. Jafar was one of the early adopters of Rx, in fact the Silverlight Toolkit was the first product to redistribute Rx.

In part 1, Jafar shows how the Rx Team's DragDrop example inspired him to use Rx to implement a real world version of Drag Drop that works on all Silverlight Controls. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-1 Jafar explains how the Silverlight Toolkit uses Reactive Extensions. Jafar was one of the early adopters of Rx, in fact the Silverlight Toolkit was the first product to redistribute Rx. In part 1, Jafar shows how the Rx Team's DragDrop example inspired him to use Rx to implement a real world version of Drag Drop that works on all Silverlight Controls. 553 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-1 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-1 Jeffrey van Gogh Jeffrey van Gogh 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/J.Van.Gogh/Jafar-Husain-Silverlight-Toolkit-and-Rx-Part-1/RSS Reactive Extensions Rx Silverlight Silverlight Toolkit