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A simple Balloon shooting silverlight game.

September 29, 2008 Sep 29, 2008 09/29/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The following is a step by step walkthrough of designing a simple Balloon shooting silverlight game.  Hope you enjoy it.Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 1/4, DesignSiverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 2/4, Create Silverlight project, add balloon user control Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial ...

Silverlight Version 2 RC0 has been Released!

September 25, 2008 Sep 25, 2008 09/25/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 –> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Also, included below is a link to a patch that will upgrade Blend.Visual Studio 2008 ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 7

September 24, 2008 Sep 24, 2008 09/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 Title: Font Support in SilverlightSilverlight Tip of the Day #45: Title: Text Formatting with the TextBlock controlSilverlight Tip of the Day #44: Title: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services. Silverlight Tip of the Day #43 Title: Making it Snow in Silverlight. Demo...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 6

September 11, 2008 Sep 11, 2008 09/11/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight Tip of the  Day #39 Title: How to Create a Zoom Toolbar. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Zoom%20Toolbar/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 Title: How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience. Silverlight Tip of the Day #37 Title: How to Dynamically Load and Display ...

What to do when VWD crashes or hangs on you

September 8, 2008 Sep 8, 2008 09/8/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
It is surely frustrating when VS or VWD crashes on you or hangs with "Not Responsing" message. If you do not have reliable repro steps, the best piece of information you can provide to us is a debug dump. He is how you can obtain it.If you are using Visual Studio1. Start Visual Studio. 2. Start another instance of VS. 3. In the second instance...