I was listening to some Christmas music today and the holiday spirit got the best of me. I managed to make a customizable e-greeting card using Silverlight 4. Since MS has only released a developer beta and no go-live license, users will have to manually download the Silverlight 4 beta plugin. I modified the html code that the Silverlight SDK spits out to show this image and redirect it straight to the Silverlight Tools Page:

I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel so I used some code that was already out there:

http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jprosise/archive/2009/07/17/fun-with-savefiledialog-and-writeablebitmap.aspx

- Code to encode an image to PNG and save to local hard drive

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/MagicMirror/MagicMirror/

- Silverlight 4 code to capture images from a Web Camera and Print

Tools I used:

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 

Microsoft Expression Design

Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4

And here’s the app! And yes, this qualifies for a TechFriday cause Christmas is on a— FRIDAY!