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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft Silverlight applications on GoDaddy

Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, used to display multimedia, animation and graphics in Internet applications. Its a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation and uses a vector graphics rendering engine to deliver much better graphics than conventional web images.

With each release Microsoft is working on bringing Silverlight and WPF closer to each other. Prism [...]

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