Tag Archives: Silverlight

Silverlight: Multiple animations on one property through Transforms

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on September 3, 2009
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When you create two or more animations that work on the same property of an object, Silverlight will only use the last of the defined animations. By using transforms you’re able to achieve the same effect anyway. For instance, I’ve got a rectangle that slides up and down by using an animation that works on the Canvas.Top property: [...]
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Creating a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight (part 2)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 19, 2009
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In part 1 I showed you how to create the basics for a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight. In this part I’ll show how to get the tags from your html for inserting it into a blog template, we’ll change the color of the tag based on the weight of the tag and let the hyperlink button actually function as [...]
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Creating a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight (part 1)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 14, 2009
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When I saw the wp-cumulus plugin by Roy Tanck, I thought it would be a great idea to implement the same sort of functionality in Silverlight. It’s hardly original but allows me to learn some parts of the Silverlight framework. The components behind it are quite simple: Get (or send) the tags from your HTML page to the [...]
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Hosting your Silverlight application and media in the cloud

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 13, 2009
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Update: The Silverlight Streaming beta has ended. If you want to host your Silverlight apps on Microsoft’s infrastructure and video’s check out Windows Azure Microsoft now offers a service called Silverlight Streaming for hosting your Silverlight content in the cloud. At the moment the service is in beta and you get a whopping 10 GB of storagespace [...]
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