Silverlight
How To Write a Custom Event in Silverlight
Ha, fooled you! This is actutally how to write a custom event (with event handlers and everything!) in C#, but it turns out that you don’t need to change a damn thing about it to get it to work in Silverlight. (It’s always the “what do I have to change?” question that stumps me.) I…
Tips for Creating a Silverlight 2 Gadget for Vista
First, glance over at Chris Szurgot’s post on creating a Silverlight Gadget. It really is as easy as he says it is. Just build your project in Visual Studio and in the html page replace the: <param name=”source” value=”ClientBin/MySilverlightApp.xap”/> with <param name=”source” value=”x-gadget:///MySilverlightApp.xap”/> There are a couple things that should be noted though. Here is…
Silverlight Color Picker
UPDATE (12/05/08): Updated Color Picker Utility UPDATE: I’ve posted links to all my code here. I apologize, but I don’t have the time right now to go over how I made this, but I did want to take the time to show it off. (Sample removed because of incompatibility with current version, please visit the updated…
Trigonometry and Interaction Design
Over at Project Rosetta they have the post I’ve been waiting for: How to use mathematics to enhance user experiences. They basically walk step by step through how we can use mathematics to create easing equations and pseudo-3D effects. They then use these principles to create the following application. Click and drag on a name…
Head First C#: Silverlight Supplement For Chapter 1 (pages 8-16)
Silverlight Concepts Covered: Building a basic Silverlight project Creating code behind for a event triggered by the user Creating an HTML alert (a fake MessageBox) in Silverlight Project Files are available for download at the bottom of the page. Because I’m an interaction designer and not a coder, I find that there are certain things…
Show Off Winners!
They’ve just posted the Show Off winners from MIX 08, and my Wiimote Visualization squeaked in at number 3. Here is the complete list of winners: Crayon Physics Deluxe by Petri Purho Real Time Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu and Jeff Webber Wii Data Visualization and Multipoint Nonsense by Matthias Shapiro (that’s…