Archive for the ‘ silverlight video tutorials ’ Category
This post was commented on by Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (the Gu) on 5.31.10 Hello All, This is a post that keeps growing day by day so I need to update its postion to be at the top of my blog as the content grows. So, here it is again by popular demand: 49. How to [ READ MORE ]
My Good Friend Andrew Whiddett, CTO of IdentityMine wrote a great solution to be able to make Custom RoutedEvents available in Silverlight (currently custom RoutedEvents are only available in WPF). RoutedEvents as you may or may not know, are the backbone of what makes the Model View View Model development pattern work. Now, because of Andrew’s genius you can [ READ MORE ]
In this video tutorial I show you how to use Behaviors and the Visual State Manager to create a navigation bar that slides in when the user places their mouse at the top of the page and then slides away when they move their mouse away from the navigation. You can see it yourself in [ READ MORE ]
In response to my Twitter buddy Funwithcoding I made this post: In Silverlight you can only add one BitmapEffect (Blur or DropShadow) to one object at a time. But these effects are passed down to their child objects (inheritance). For that reason we can use a little trick and apply multiple effects to one object (or so it appears). [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! Recently I was asked to make a ToolTip that now only followed the Thumb of the Slider but also showed the value of what the slider was (see image above). I thought about this and I came up with a pretty quick solution. There may be other ways to do it but watch [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, As always I like to keep you all informed of where/when you can come and see me present on Silverlight. So, here is my current speaking schedule for the months of June and July 2010. Please note that some of these dates are tentative and subject to change. If they are tentative I [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! IMPORTANT: Watching the video I see I said “I am going to Undo that…” To Undo in Blend hit Control+Z I have been asked repeatedly for the source code for the camera application I use to show myself when filming Silverlight video tutorials. Well, I decided to make a tutorial on how [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! In this short 7.44 minute video I show you how you can, with one line of C# code fire one of two Visual States based upon the value of a Boolean variable, one if it is true or another one if it is false. This is much easier than evaluating the variable yourself [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! As you probably already know there is no “built-in” way to accomplish Fast Forward with the Silverlight MediaElement. So, in this 24 minute video I show you how to: 1. Create a new Silverlight application; 2. Add a MediaElement, a Fast Forward Button and a TextBlock for the video’s position information; 3. Create [ READ MORE ]
Have you ever needed to have your Silverlight Object’s ToolTip appear after a delay? Say, two seconds? Well, if you have done this in WPF you know that it is quite easy but not so for Silverlight. Until Microsoft adds that property we are just out of luck, or are we? Well, after some research [ READ MORE ]
Toaday I got a comment from a blog reader named Fracisco…I think he wanted to know how to load new pages into a Silverlight website. Just for him, and because I think many of you have the same problem, I made a video tutorial where I show you how to: 1. Create a Content Holder [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! Recently I had a developer ask me how he could fire an event from the CheckBox that I had put in the Style of the UserControl I gave him. I thought about it and, the problem is that objects in a Style are not really part of the Visual Tree until the Style is [ READ MORE ]
UPDATE: Here is just the first part of my presentation: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/LASLUG/March/MarchMeeting.wmv Here is Michael Washington’s presentation on how to use MVVM to build a Silverlight File Manager: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/LASLUG/March/LiveStream03242010.wmv Hello All! For the first time in its short history the LA Silverlight Usergroup will be streaming its meeting LIVE in Silverlight. Please log on at 6:45pm PST [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, As you probably know, I am very serious and passionate about my love for Silverlight and Blend; I love the technology and posses a burning passion for teaching it. If any of you know me you know full well that if you ask me for help I will do all I can to [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, In this, the 4th installment of the Learn Blend IDE Video Tutorial Series I teach you about: 1. The Objects & Timeline Panel; 2. The States Panel; 3. How to use the GoToStateAction Behavior to activate a Visual State Enjoy! Video: http://tinyurl.com/ydgs964 Other videos in this series: Part 1 – the Blend Toolbar: [ READ MORE ]
In this video tutorial I show you how to: 1. Create a new Silverlight application and website 2. Create a new XML file 3. Read the XML file into the application 4. Create a Sigleton DataFactory 5. Deserialize the XML into Native Silverlight Objects. Video: http://tinyurl.com/ya5f29r Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/ybzj7pk Enjoy! Victor Gaudioso[ READ MORE ]
Last July I recorded a StarterKit, a series of 10 screencasts for Microsoft showing how to create a Silverlight Color Swatch application complete with some very cool functionality. Here is what I show you how to build: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/ColorSwatch/ Here is the source code: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/ColorSwatch/ColorSwatchSL.zip Here is a list of all of the videos in the [ READ MORE ]
Whenever you need to make a new Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser (OOB) application you have to do a few things before you even get started. You need to make an Install Button, check for updates and inform the user to restart the applications if in fact updates have been installed. In this video I show [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, In this new video tutorial, I show you how to set up an SL 4 application to run out of the browser (how to set out of the browser settings, how to create and show the Install Button, how to check for updates and how to inform the user that updates have been installed). I [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, In this new Silverlight Video Tutorial I show you how to use the new Webcam API to create a very cool Webcam application that allows you run your webcam, take snapshot images, place funny objects such as hats over your face, take snapshots and then save the image to you hard drive. Kids [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! Finally my first Silverlight 4 video tutorial is here. I took a great video tutorial from Jesse Liberty on how to use this API to open Excel and create a new Workbook. So, I thought it would be cool to show you how to use the COM API to open MSFT Word and [ READ MORE ]
Hello All! The LA C# Usergroup in Manhattan Beach was kind enough to invite me to present on Silverlight 4 last night and it went very well. The members were very into everything .NET and very interested to hear what Silverlight had to offer. As always I talked about Silverlight and then proceeded to code some cool samples [ READ MORE ]
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