http://gregdoesit.com Do it to get it Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm writing a 4 part series on everything (I think) it's worth knowing about styles. In the second part of the series (following the previous one Styles in Silverlight - an Introduction) I'm covering the following topics: Re-Using Styles for Different Types: the TargetType of the Style can be a parent ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/07/styles-in-silverlight-advanced-topics-part-1/ I'm writing a (planned) 4 parts series on everything I think it's worth knowing about styles in Silverlight. The first part is ready and it covers the following topics: What are Styles?Styles are basically list of property-value pairs. Defining a style consists declaring the TargetType property and the list of Setters. Defining ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/07/styles-in-silverlight-an-introduction/ A month ago Kwwika, a real-time data streaming service provider annonced a competition to build a mash up that uses their World Cup 2010 Twitter streams. I've decided to enter the competition and visualize the stream of tweets in a fun and engaging way. As the competition closed on 11th ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/07/world-cup-2010-real-time-push-web-app-competition-winner/ I've created TweetForYourTeam just a week ago and have just added a major update with a couple of fun features. Cheer By a Single Click In the original version of TweetForYourTeam one was able to engage in cheering for or against a team by sending a tweet to Twitter. In the current ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/07/cheer-for-your-team-with-a-click-on-tweetforyourteamcom/ The World Cup is on and there have been quite a few good Twitter mashups made for this event, probably the most popular being TweetBeat (and I've also developed one, Tweet For Your Team). In this post I'll show how to build a simple service similar to TweetBeat using a ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/07/streaming-world-cup-tweets-in-silverlight-with-a-few-lines-of-code/ This World Cup has been exciting for me not just because of the great games but also because during the group stages I've been building a cool real time spectator monitoring application for it: Tweet For Your Team (powered by Kwwika real time data services). What does it do? The application streams ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/07/world-cup-2010-real-time-twitter-mashup/ Printing support has been introduced in Silverlight 4. This means that any part of the visual tree can be printed with some simple API calls (see the Printing Basics section on my Advanced Printing in Silverlight post). This post provides an example to print charts and looks at how elements ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/05/printing-in-silverlight-printing-charts-and-auto-scaling/ I've ran into the issue of Silverlight displaying large elements incorrectly in version 3. After reporting the issue on the official Silverlight forums it's turned out that it's a known issue that Silverlight renders elements larger than 32K incorrectly. After Silverlight 4 released I was hoping that this issue is fixed. ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/04/silverlight-still-displays-large-elements-incorrectly/ Detecting the Silverlight version installed on a client machine isn't entirely straightforward. To do so, one has to use Javascript. Unfortunately even though Microsoft ships a Silverlight.js in the Silverlight SDK, this script only has the ability to tell whether a specific version is supported on the client's machine; it ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/04/detecting-silverlight-version-installed/ It has been a great honour that I a month and a half ago I have been invited to become a member of the Kairos Society and also attend their annual summit mid April this year. Kairos Society is an invite-only foundation aimed to unite the world's brightest young minds. Each ... http://gregdoesit.com/2010/04/invited-to-the-kairos-society-global-summit/