Getting Things Working with Silverlight 2 RTW

in code

25 oct 2008

I haven’t had a lot of time in the last week to get things updated.  I guess it’s good to be busy!  I did finally update the particle generator and the homepage though.  Other stuff (AnimatingPanelBase, Kaxaml and the VS code snippets) are coming soon. 

Incidentally, converting my frame-based animations from the DispatcherTimer approach I was using to CompositionTarget.Rendering makes a bigger difference than I expected.  Nice one team!  Things are noticeably smoother (but I had a bit of scare before I disabled the UseLayoutRounding property, which was causing the animations to snap at pixel boundaries and get pretty jerky).

By the way, if there is any interest in the code for the homepage, I’m happy to share it.  I’ve been meaning to do a walkthrough of how I created the blurring effect for a while and I was going to give out the code with that.  Happy to share soon with anyone wants it, though.

Shawn Oster

26 oct 2008

 

I don’t think your homepage is quite there yet :)

It looks like your object tag is still referring to Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (version 2.0.30523).

 

Christopher Bennage

27 oct 2008

 

I’m very interested in the code. :-)

 

Marcel81

29 oct 2008

 

I would like to know how you did that blurring effect. I love the whole idea of your homepage and the glasses!

 

Robby Ingebretsen

10 nov 2008

 

Thanks for the heads up guys. Hopefully things are working now!

 

Robby Ingebretsen

10 nov 2008

 

I’ll definitely get the code out in the next little bit. I really would prefer to give it away along with a walkthrough of how it works. So here’s the deal…if I don’t make that happen in the next month then I ‘ll just zip up the code and post it. Until then I’m going to bank on the fact that I can get a walkthrough together!

 

Johan Hillerström

12 nov 2008

 

All I had to do to get kaxaml working with RTW was to switch out the System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll with System.Windows.Controls.dll in the .xap-file, and change the runtime version and dll-references in the AssemblyInfo.xaml-file. Oh, and fix the .html to not say “x-silverlight-2-b2″ :]