Visiblox Charts vs. Silverlight Toolkit Charts – a test of Performance(www.scottlogic.co.uk)

submitted by jcaverns(317) 1 year, 6 months ago

This blog post compares the performance of the Visiblox and Silverlight Toolkit charts using a simple image processing tool to test and illustrate their differences in performance. The results show that the Visiblox charts are approximately 50 – 100 times faster that the Silverlight Toolkit charts. read more...

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Silverlight & WPF Charting Component Released with Free License(www.visiblox.co.uk)

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Visiblox, an advanced Silverlight / WPF charting component has been released with a free and premium license. read more...

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Getting Started with WP7 Development: Learning Siverlight(gregdoesit.com)

submitted by jcaverns(317) 1 year, 7 months ago

This post aims to present a structured collection of resources for developers wanting to get started developing for Windows Phone 7 in Silverlight, but don’t have any Silverlight or WPF experience. I’m also aiming this post at people who’ve started developing for WP7 without too much WPF/Silverlight experience and would like to learn more about the framework to move on. read more...

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Styles in Silverlight: Inheritance, Precedence & Other Advanced Topics(gregdoesit.com)

submitted by jcaverns(317) 1 year, 9 months ago

This article focuses on some more advanced topics that are handy when building more complex applications: re-using the same styles for different types, style inheritance, style precedence and style setter precedence. read more...

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Making the Most of Silverlight Text Rendering(blog.nerdplusart.com)

submitted by jcaverns(317) 1 year, 10 months ago

There really isn’t a single rendering methodology that is going to look great for all fonts in all situations. So, I thought I’d share some of my (highly subjective) opinions. Here are a couple of things that I do get better text rendering in Silverlight. read more...

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Streaming World Cup Tweets in Silverlight With a Few Lines of Code(gregdoesit.com)

submitted by jcaverns(317) 1 year, 10 months ago

The World Cup is on and there have been quite a few good Twitter mashups made for this event, the most popular being TweetBeat. In this post I'm showing how to build a simple service similar to TweetBeat using a publicly available real-time streaming service, Kwwika. read more...

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Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight - Details Revealed(gregdoesit.com)

submitted by jcaverns(317) 2 years, 2 months ago

In the opening keynote of MIX 10 Scott Guthrie confirmed that the supported development platform for the Windos 7 Phone Series is Silverlight and XNA. He also talked about the development environment, marketplace and showed demo applications. Read on for a short summary and videos. read more...

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