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 [...]
As the holiday season is close I was looking for a way of sending a simple, yet nice animated Christmas card to friends. I wasn’t looking for one of the many popular sites offering e-card sending, instead I wanted something I could somewhat customize, put on my server and send the link to friends and [...]
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 [...]
When working with images I sooner or later usually run into the problem of creating thumbnails. Resampling images is not really difficult in the major programming languages however I have not found built-in support for caclulating thumbnail dimensions neither in .NET nor in PHP. And it seems that this made me re-invent the wheel over [...]