Yes, it’s as easy as it looks. I’m actually just creating this post so that I can test the app I just built. The Silverlight Toolkit has actually been in release since December but I haven’t had the time to play around with it yet. In the toolkit are some really cool components [...]
I was doing some research on Silverlight 2 & Dynamics CRM integration and found this post by Humberto Lezama Guadarrama where he posts a sample project that demonstrates how to consume Dynamics CRM Services directly from Silverlight 2. I was getting an initialize error when I tried to run the code though. This [...]
There’s so much content on http://www.microsoftpdc.com and I’m trying to watch at least once a day. So my PDC Session of the Day is this Building a Graphics-Intensive Application in Silverlight by Seema Ramchandani
She highlights quite a number of things to bear in mind when you’re doing lots of animations, image & video [...]
With the goal of stressing out my new adopted baby, Brownie (yes I know it makes her sound like a dog but hey, what can I do, it’s brown and I wasn’t feeling very creative when I got her), I installed Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, because I figured that one [...]
For those of you who have been working on the Silverlight RC0 bits getting yourself ready for the release, check out this blog post from Laurence Moroney where he talks about how to get your RC0 and Beta 2 bits deployed side by side so you don’t have to worry about when the [...]
I was browsing http://www.liveside.net last night and saw this article on a really killer Windows Mobile application called Live Media GPS. If some of you have heard of Qik, it’s the same concept. It has a software component that runs on your GPS enabled Windows Mobile phone and allows you to stream videos [...]
I had the great opportunity to help Crayon Digital get enabled on Silverlight for one of the projects they had to deliver for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix and I have to say, they’ve come up with some pretty sleek stuff and I’m sure you GUYS will agree Check out the [...]
Came across another really awesome Silverlight Application that makes use of Deep Zoom done by Kelly Blue Book which I believe they call The Perfect Car Finder. Tim Heuer talks about it more in his blog post. Building deep zoom applications can actually be pretty straightforward. All you need to do is make [...]
I did a session on facebook development using the facebook developer toolkit where I also showed how I integrated my Piss Off Silverlight application into a facebook app, which I now call PissBook. I’ve registered the pissbook url but have yet to point it to my app as it seems that facebook isn’t [...]
If you want to embed a font into your Silverlight applications, add the font into your project:
Set the Build Action file property to embedded resource:
Use the following code snippet to use the font as a font source for your components:
Assembly ass = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
Stream stream =
ass.GetManifestResourceStream("EmbeddedResource.Font.pricedow.ttf");
this.test.FontSource = new FontSource(stream);
this.test.FontFamily = new FontFamily("Pricedown");
XAML [...]