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Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:49 PM

Windows Phone Developer Tools Released!

Today the Windows Phone Developer Tools have gone final! Download the tools from here ! Read the release notes – quite a few changes from previous Beta version. Documentation (MSDN) for the Windows Phone development here .   Stay tuned for more!   Enjoy, Alex
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Friday, April 16, 2010 7:55 AM

Silverlight 4 Available

Silverlight 4 finally here!!! It works with Visual Studio 2010 RTM ! All downloads you need to start developing great line of business applications: Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Blend 4 RC here Silverlight 4 Toolkit (April 2010)   For those who are in Windows Phone 7 development : Do not install this build ! If you need to develop for Windows Phone 7 stay with Silverlight 4 RC build and Visual Studio 2010 RC. The update for Windows Phone 7 tools is not ready yet and will be available...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 4:33 PM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Analytics

Silverlight 3 has new feature which should help us to understand how good our application performs. This feature is Analytics class. It Has 2 read-only properties AverageProcessLoad – average CPU used by this process across all the cores AverageProcessorLoad – average CPU usage across all cores In addition it has GpuCollection collection with objects of GpuInformation type. Each one of GpuInformation object provides information about: DeviceId – device ID of the GPU VendorId – vendor ID of the GPU...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:26 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Native Mouse Wheel Support

Silverlight 3 supports the mouse wheel events natively. To use this handy feature just subscribe to “MouseWheel” of UIElement. The reported values will be like follows: Positive for forward scroll Negative for backward scroll   Enjoy, Alex
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:25 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Out Of Browser Settings

In MIX 09 Beta build of Silverlight 3, when we wanted to enable out-of-browser experience, we had to edit manually AppManifest.xml. Now for Silverlight 3 projects in Visual Studio 2008 we got the out of browser settings helper dialog box The dialog will be saved in “OutOfBrowserSettings.xml” and this file contents will be merged on compile time to the AppManifest.xml. For hardcore programmers, who wants to write every single piece of the application without wizards/helpers – you still could use AppManifest...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:24 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Multitouch support on Windows 7

Silverlight 3 supports Multitouch on Windows 7. Touch class –provides input information and resides in System.Windows.Input namespace “FrameReported” event - fired when touch action occurs. Event arguments provide the following info: Timestamp: identify the touch event by time GetTouchPoints function (over specific UI Element) GetPrimaryTouchPoint function (over specific UIElement) SuspendMousePromotionUntilTouchUp function GetTouchPoints returns TouchPointCollection In TouchPointCollection first...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 10:23 AM

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip: Browser Zoom Support

New version of Silverlight 3 supports zoom events from the hosting browser environment. “Zoomed” event is the new event in Content static object, and the current browser’s zoom factor in “ZoomFactor” property of the Content object:   App.Current.Host.Content.Zoomed += (s, e) => {     //Browser’s Zoom in:App.Current.Host.Content.ZoomFactor; };   Enjoy, Alex
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Friday, July 10, 2009 9:36 AM

Silverlight 3: Hebrew and Arabic Support

Since I’m constantly getting many questions about Hebrew and Arabic support and also huge amount of requests to provide/support it, I’ve updated the SilverlightRTL project at codeplex to support Silverlight 3. The project homepage here . Latest release for Silverlight 3 RTW is here .   The updated source also includes sample application to demonstrate Bidi controls usage and comparison with standard core controls with Hebrew and Arabic:     Enjoy, Alex
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