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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 [...]

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My MIX 10K entry – SilverCooler

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

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 [...]

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Silverlight bug when drawing large paths

Monday, November 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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