Silverlight Development

Games in Silverlight

2009-01-05T02:31:00.000-08:00

There are some cool games created in Silverlight, check these out:
http://zerogravity.terralever.com/
http://www.mashooo.com/SilverlightGames/Truck_Wars.aspx
http://www.mashooo.com/SilverlightGames/Marble_Cascade.aspx
http://www.spritehand.com/

Key Toy, my first Silverlight thingy

2007-05-24T07:48:00.000-07:00

Here it is!
My first Silverlight production.
It's not much, but it's a start.
It let's you enter text from the keyboard and display it in a TextBlock.

Check it out here: Key Toy

Here's a zip-file containing it all.

Silverlight hack: Change xaml file extension to xml to work on any server

2007-05-09T02:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I had trouble getting silverlight apps to work on a webserver. I tried changing the .xaml file extension to .xml and everything worked like a charm!
See here:
http://jari.imagesinmymind.com/silverlight/clock_xml-instead-of-xaml-exstension.html

The best solution is of course to configure your server to handle xaml-files correctly, but for testing, this works just fine.

Flash to silverlight converter and other cool tools

2007-05-08T23:27:00.000-07:00

Michael Swanson has created a swf to xaml converter called SWF2XAML.

http://www.mikeswanson.com/SWF2XAML/

It's really good at converting animations/graphics but it doesn't support actionscript, which is quite obvious since the xaml only contains the graphical objects of the project.Mike has also created a illustrator to xaml exporter.
I guess that both these tools will be used to create graphics easier. Doing all graphics by editing xaml files with notepad is something I wouldn't even touch...

Silverlight, first attempts...

2007-05-08T08:24:00.000-07:00

My first attempts in creating silverlight has worked very well offline but not at all online... I think it has to do with upper/lower case characters but I made all files lowercase but it didn't help. I let you know when I figure it out...

Edit: Argh, it's probably the web-server that isn't configured for dealing with xaml (zammel) files...

Silverlight resources

2007-05-08T04:35:00.000-07:00

Resources:

silverlight.net
MSDN Silverlight Dev Center
Silverlight tools & resources

Some articles:

SilverLight, Flash, and SVG
Sam Ruby: SVG to Silverlight Workbench
Why Silverlight Is Important

Latest blogs about a silverlight:

http://technorati.com/tag/silverlight

Silverlight Development

2007-05-08T03:31:00.000-07:00

Hi folks! Here I will post my Microsoft Silverlight development experiences.