Tic-Tac-Toe game in Silverlight

Recently someone asked me to write a TicTacToe game. So I worked out a rough logic for it. Heres the code. The idea is that the computer first scans through the tic-tac-toe board for any winning positions available. If none are available, then it looks for the manual user’s winning positions. If its able to [...]

KeyFrame animation in Silverlight

In my previous blog, I wrote about the simplest form of animation in Silverlight – the FromTo animation, which allows you to modify the value of Control properties thus giving animation effects like Fading in-out, movement and many more. KeyFrame animation is different as in it gives you more control in defining both the duration [...]

Accordion Control In Silverlight 3

Few days ago I blogged about the Silverlight TransitionContent control. In this post we will see the Accordion Control in the Silverlight Control Toolkit. The Accordion is a very common control which we use in a lot of places. For e.g. the Outlook List of mails is an accordion. As you would have guessed it, [...]

Image transition using Silverlight Transition Control

Displaying a slideshow of various images is a very common requirement these days. It can be done very easily using the Transtion Control in Silverlight Control Toolkit. Lets see how.

First create a Silverlight Application using Visual Web Developer.

The Transition Control is a part of the Toolkit, which we need to add a reference to. Right [...]

Getting Started with Animation in Silverlight

The audience which the web was catering to, has drastically changed in the last 10 years. From primary being a one way of source of information for its users, the web has evolved into a massive aggregator with which users can both create and consume information. This meant a sea change for web developers and [...]

What’s new in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3.0 finally got over the beta stage in July. Here are the most exciting features of Silverlight 3

H.264 video support:

This was a long standing demand since 2.0. H.264 is the industry standard and not everyone wanted to encode their existing video to VC-1. And since customers had [...]

Creating RIA – Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight 3 includes support for creating Rich Internet Applications with virtually no code at all. In this article, I will create a simple RIA application which displays data from the SQL Server 2005 AdventureWorks database. For those who are wondering what RIA services are? Its a pattern which integrates ASP.NET with Silverlight and provides [...]

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