On yesterday’s Scot Alt.NET meeting I held a presentation (An Introduction to Silverlight) that was aimed at providing an overview of Silverlight and looking at some of it’s most important features. Thanks to the about 30 people who’ve attended and given feedback, I hope you’ve found it useful. For those who have missed out I’ll [...]
Silverlight gives the developer the possibility of completely customizing the developed application in all aspects. Defining fonts used for displaying text is no exception. However there are multiple ways on how to go ahead with specifying fonts to use, this article attempts to summarize the options.
In Silverlight, using fonts can be done in three ways:
Built-in [...]
I’ve entered the MIX 10K competition where the goal is to write an application using no more than 10KBytes of source code in Silverlight. I’ve decided to implement a cocktail selector application - strictly listing alcohol free cocktails only - using the web services I’ve previously built for a popular cocktail site, iCocktail.co.uk.
ICocktail.co.uk was built [...]
I’m working on creating a zoom effect for a Silverlight Path object. This effect is easy to implement: I just have to apply a ScaleTransform and and a TranslateTransform within a TransformGroup for the Path (scale it up and move it on the screen where the user clicked to zoom). However when reaching a certain [...]
Recently I wanted to implement a very simple file upload component in Silverlight that uploads a single file and if possible shows upload progress. Having done some search I’ve found numerous examples but all of them seemed too complex for the simple task of uploading a file so I implemented a really lightweight solution. The [...]
In summer 2008 me and three friends representing Hungary as team DigitalMania took part in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competiton in the software design category. The task was to design an implement a solution regarding an environmental issue. We focused on the water problem and created the prototype of a system that aimed to reduce [...]