Vista Squad

Vista Squad ''First Blood Part II'' Wednesday 17th September Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 17th of September at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. Topics This Month WPF/Sliverlight Application Deep Dive(Richard Godfrey, iPriniciples) XBox After Dark(James Senior, ...

Vista Squad "Citizens on Patrol" Wednesday 20th August Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 20th of August at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. Another Microsoft double header: What's new in Silverlight Beta 2 (Mike Ormond, Microsoft) Intro to Live Mesh (Paolo ...

Its GONE! Seems like the Watermark will be an option in the next versions of Silverlight so its been dropped for the time being until, hopefully, the next beta.  Luckily you can still download the source code for the watermarked textbox, with Kathy Kam filling us with all the details Source Code Download Kathy Kam Post

Mikes Taulty and Ormond have put together a bunch of 50 screencasts on Silverlight 2 Beta 1 dealing with a range of topics inc. ''Hello World'' with VS and Blend Anatomy of a Silverlight Application The <asp:Silverlight> Control Controls - What's In the Box? Why Controls have a Content Property Width, Height, Margin, Padding, ...

Something for the IT Pro guys and devs :) http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/04/07/controlling-the-distribution-of-silverlight-updates-in-the-enterprise.aspx

Some Windows Server 2003 or XP users may still be using IE6 - so particularly for Silverlight 1.0 or any interactions with the page DOM you'll need to test your code. Easiest thing to do is to download the appropriate VPC image to get access the additional browsers you ...

Kit3d is pretty good, we played around and had some fun with that.  But it's for SL 1. For the moment, we're going to write some HTTP Handlers to do the image processing based on some querystring parameters, and use them as the image source.  SL just needs to do the text mapping now.

Is it possible to load a JPEG file into memory, make changes to it, and then use it as a texture map for an object?  

MIX 08 has seen some cool announcements namely Silverlight 2.0 with the SeaDragon technology which has now be renamed DeepZoom. (Very, very cool stuff!) Try Hard Rock Cafe's memorabilia site: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/  Other highlights sees the release of IE8 beta 1... Have a read of Mike Ormond's blog, he has a good ...