StartupWeekend in San Francisco

Posted By: skeezicks | Nov 30th, 2007 @ 11:44 AM | Comments: 0

What happens when you throw together several 100 technologists in to a room for 54 hours and have them startup a company?

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Tags: Blogging, blogs, Community, Customer, Marketing, MicroISV, Silicon Valley, Startups

Silverlight: Integrating with HTML DOM

Posted By: skeezicks | Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 10:16 PM | Comments: 1

Silverlight: Integrating with HTML&nbsp;DOM

Hi, I'm Tim Heuer.

This screencast attempts to demonstrate the ease of functionality in interacting with both the HTML and Silverlight DOM elements. We take a baseball ticket purchasing scenario using an image map of the stadium and demonstrate a different experience in browsing the various options for ticket purchases in this simple demonstration.[more

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Tags: Expression, Silverlight

Creating Arcs and Changing Centers with Expression

Posted By: skeezicks | Sep 16th, 2007 @ 1:48 PM | Comments: 0

Creating Arcs and Changing Centers with&nbsp;Expression

Hi, I'm Tim Heuer.

Answering a post on the silverlight.net forum I felt it would better to visually demonstrate how I used the Expression tools (Design and Blend) to create an arc (half circle) as well as changing the rotation point of an element for animations.

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Tags: Blend, Expression

Cheating at Creating a Media Player for Silverlight

Posted By: skeezicks | Aug 31st, 2007 @ 7:47 AM | Comments: 2

Cheating at Creating a Media Player for&nbsp;Silverlight

Want to create a media experience for Silverlight but don't want to write all the logic code? This podcast walks you through steps to use output templates from Expression Media Encoder and alter the XAML to your liking and needs. View http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/31/cheating-creating-silverlight-media-player.aspx for more details and some pointers.[more

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Tags: Expression, Silverlight, Silverlight Streaming, Windows Media

Using SVG Assets in Expression Design

Posted By: skeezicks | Aug 30th, 2007 @ 10:24 PM | Comments: 0

Using SVG Assets in Expression&nbsp;Design

Leverage your existing SVG assets in Expression Design to produce XAML elements for WPF and/or Silverlight applications. This screencast demonstrates converting SVG files to XAML using Expression Design and consuming them in a Silverlight application.[more

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Tags: Blend, Expression, Silverlight

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in 1.1

Posted By: skeezicks | Aug 20th, 2007 @ 1:59 PM | Comments: 0

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in&nbsp;1.1

In Part 2 of Creating User Controls in Silverlight, we take our learnings from Part 1 and apply them to implementing the same user control (Glass Button) in a Silverlight 1.1 application. We use the similar model of InitializeFromXaml but as well, learn how we can implement the user control in XAML directly using familiar user control syntax similar to ASP.NET controls.

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Tags: Silverlight, WPFE

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in 1.0

Posted By: skeezicks | Aug 19th, 2007 @ 10:40 PM | Comments: 0

Silverlight: Implementing User Controls in&nbsp;1.0

Learn how to write your own User Control using Silverlight 1.0 and the Javascript prototype programming model. This screencast walks through the steps for implementing your custom XAML User Control in a project. This is a part 1 of 2 series. Part 2 will demonstrate using the same model to implement the User Control in Silverlight 1.1.

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Tags: Acropolis, Silverlight, WPFE

Preparing for Silverlight Release Candidate

Posted By: skeezicks | Jul 24th, 2007 @ 10:38 AM | Comments: 1

Preparing for Silverlight Release&nbsp;Candidate

A quick screencast showing some simple steps in preparing your Silverlight 1.0 applications for the release candiate. We walk through 2 samples on silverlight.net and prep them for RC.

This is a very simple screencast demonstrating some of the more required steps. Every preparation for your sample may vary depending on the amount of code, but this is intended to show you some quick steps.

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Tags: Silverlight, Silverlight Streaming, Visual Studio, WPFE