Published on Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:56:00 PM UTC in
Programming
In my first article on Silverlight Show about XNA for Silverlight developers, I briefly mentioned the Gesture Listener of the Silverlight Toolkit that enables advanced gestures in Silverlight on the Windows Phone by using the XNA input libraries. Since then I've been asked about the pinch gesture in particular, so I'm providing a short example of how to use it.
Published on Monday, January 10, 2011 5:44:22 PM UTC in
Skit
Mein Telefon und mich verbindet ein besonderes Band. Auf der einen Seite ist es natürlich ein lebenswichtiges Utensil, das mir die Bestellung von Pizza ebenso ermöglicht wie das Lauschen von Warteschleifenmusik bei der Telekom, wann immer ich Lust darauf habe. Andererseits ist diese Ausgeburt der Hölle die nervigste Erfindung seit der Entdeckung der Schallwellen.
Published on Monday, January 10, 2011 5:36:00 PM UTC in
Programming
Some time ago I've been invited by Silverlight Show to write articles on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 topics. For those of you who don't know this site let me say that you've missed something! It's a community portal created by CompletIT that focuses on Silverlight development and offers a great amount of high-quality content. I often point people to articles on Silverlight Show to answer questions or give examples in the Silverlight forums.
Published on Saturday, January 8, 2011 10:47:55 PM UTC in
Skit
Das neue Jahr hat seine erste Sensation. Ich konnte eben den wissenschaftlich-empirischen Beweis führen, dass es Intel mit der Erfindung des USB-Anschlusses erstmals in der Geschichte der Mathematik gelungen ist, die Gesetze der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung außer Kraft zu setzen.
Published on Saturday, January 8, 2011 5:11:00 PM UTC in
Programming
A question that frequently surfaces on the Silverlight forums is the one after a DateTimePicker control. The Silverlight Toolkit has both a date picker and a time picker, but not the combination of both. The issue tracker of the Toolkit project on Codeplex lists that control among the Top-20 voted features. But when you ask about it, the answer usually is that it's so simple to build one yourself that it's not worth creating a dedicated control for that. However, when I looked at the source code of an attempted DateTimePicker control someone sent me in desperation, I realized that you can get lost in undesired behavior and unforeseeable problems with mutually triggering events easily. So here is a short post that shows a straight-forward way to create a functioning simple DateTimePicker control. You can download the complete sample at the end of this article.
Published on Thursday, January 6, 2011 8:02:59 AM UTC in
Skit
Es ist entschieden. Meine neue Herausforderung im Jahr 2011 wird es sein, einer der fünf Wirtschaftsweisen zu werden.
Published on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:10:00 PM UTC in
Programming
Note: although this post is primarily about the BookShelf code sample, it also contains general information about shader effects in Silverlight and their performance implications, as well as some weird behaviors of the Silverlight runtime regarding those effects.
Published on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:15:43 PM UTC in
Skit
War das nicht wieder ein ergreifendes Perihel dieses Jahr? Ich bin immer noch ganz angetan. Den gesamten gestrigen Tag, und die Nacht noch dazu, begleitete mich ein unfassbares Hochgefühl, ein wahrer Permanent-Adrenalinschub, der sich kaum durch die Verwertung meiner letzten Glühweinvorräte erklären lässt.
Published on Sunday, January 2, 2011 10:39:16 PM UTC in
Skit
Haben Sie sich schon einmal gefragt, warum die seit einigen Jahren immer beliebter gewordenen Flachbild-Fernsehgeräte eigentlich so zur Riesenhaftigkeit neigen? Dann haben Sie vermutlich keinen. Oder noch nie versucht damit das gewöhnliche Fernsehprogramm zu sehen.
Published on Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:35:00 AM UTC in
Programming
This morning I had to type a lot of grid definitions manually (would've been so much easier with Blend...), and I remembered a post by Colin Eberhardt I had read some time ago, about a simplified grid markup for Silverlight (and WPF). The idea behind it is nice, and when I had to type something like this:
