Silverlight Tips of the Day - Blog by Mike Snow

New Silverlight Blog

mike.snow — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:18:36 GMT

UPDATE (5/11/2010) I am changing my domain for my new Silverlight blog to be: http://www.michaelsnow.com I will be retiring the name silverlightdev.net so expect this link to go dead after some time. Sorry for an inconvenience. --Mike After a long...(read more)

Tip of the Day #111 – How to Configure your Silverlight App to run in Elevated Trust Mode

mike.snow — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:14:00 GMT

With Silverlight you can run your Out-of-Browser applications in elevated trust mode. This will allow you to relax the normal sandboxed barrier Silverlight restricts applications to. While you still will not have full control of the local machine, the...(read more)

Tip of the Day #110 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries

mike.snow — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:11:48 GMT

This blog has been migrated to the new site: http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/04/21/tip-of-the-day-1-using-static-resources-in-class-libraries/...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Tools Released

mike.snow — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:00:48 GMT

This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508 . The tools will install: Silverlight 4 RTM Developer Runtime Silverlight 4 Tools RC...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #109 – Attach to Process Debugging

mike.snow — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:54:48 GMT

This blog has been migrated. The new link for this tip is at: http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/04/22/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-2-attach-to-process-debugging/...(read more)

Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2

mike.snow — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:25:20 GMT

If you have the Silverlight 3 SDK RTM version (not the GDR) installed on your box you will need to first uninstall it before running Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 setup. This is irrespective of the SDK language version or platform. The SDK GDR does not install...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #108 – How to Create an Out of Browser Application.

mike.snow — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:09:02 GMT

This blog has been migrated to the new site: http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/04/26/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-4-enabling-out-of-browser-applications/...(read more)

Game Programming with Silverlight.

mike.snow — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:50:00 GMT

Tomorrow, June 30th, is the release date for my book titled “ Game Programming with Silverlight ”. Writing this book was a great experience as it was the first book I have ever written. It was extremely time consuming mostly because it was a learning...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #107 – Animation Easing Demo

mike.snow — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:23:00 GMT

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Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 – Setting Default Browser from within VS

mike.snow — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:21:00 GMT

This blog has been migrated to the new blog location: http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/05/06/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-15-setting-default-browse-in-visual-studio/...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration

mike.snow — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:44:00 GMT

With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta 1 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration (or hardware acceleration) is now available. The GPU is a processor attached to your graphics card that is generally used for calculating floating point operations. In...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 – Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs

mike.snow — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Of the course of the last year I have been collecting links to some really good Silverlight tutorial blogs that I thought I would share with you. These are active blogs, frequently updated, that are specifically oriented to teaching Silverlight development...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations

mike.snow — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:53:00 GMT

When calculating the positions of objects such as Images make certain to use integer values not floating point values. For example, take a look at this code that centers a map around a given position: private void CenterMap( double windowWidth, double...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 - Bypassing the Image Cache

mike.snow — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:36:00 GMT

This blog has been migrated to the new blog site: http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/05/07/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-16-working-with-ignoreimagecache/...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 – Silverlight 3 Beta 1 Feature Summary

mike.snow — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:19:00 GMT

Unless you have had your head under a rock you probably have heard Silverlight 3 Beta 1 has been released! If you haven’t already, please install it from http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx This release comes packed with some of...(read more)