It's easy, it's fun, it sure looks great. It's Silverlight in Full-screen.

In May 2007, Scott Guthrie already posted a lot more on Silverlight 1.1 Full-screen. Now, 1.1 never made it to an actual release and got 'promoted' to 2.0 so the info is probably still pretty much correct.

On the Expression Site you can find the beginnings of an interesting series of articles about developing a casual game in Silverlight 2. The first one in the series is up and describes the architecture used for the game. Joel Neubeck describes how he likes using the MVC-framework as a basis for his game.


Of course, MVC is a model that we've all been using for years with the whole Event/Delegate-model, that's present in both Win and Web-client development:

Active Model. In this implementation each model notify the appropriate view of a change by using an observer pattern. In .NET the easiest implementation of an observer pattern is through the use of delegates and events. In game development, this technique works quite well by allowing each view to subscribe to events fired by a model, when there is a change in state (new position or collision).

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Unfortunately the sourcecode can't be downloaded (the provided link gives a 404) at the moment :(

Karl Shifflett has posted an update to his XAML Power Toys

These are incredibly handy tools you can use to quickly set up an application. Or as Karl explains on his site:

Goal
The primary goal of XAML Power Toys is to deliver tools that enable developers to quickly layout and maintain Line of Business Application forms. You’ll notice that the below features are business form focused. This does not limit the use of the software, I’m just providing the current target project type.

After Silverlight RTM is released, I’ll update this software to render XAML targeted for Silverlight also.

Feature Set
* Create Business Form For Class - quickly create a form complete with bindings that are easily associated with properties on the source class
* Create Business Form - quickly create a form complete with bindings if desired
* Show Fields List For Class - display a list of class fields similar to Microsoft Access. Allows dragging of fields to create controls
* Group Into - allows selecting one or more controls and group them inside a new parent control
* Remove Designer XAML - allows selecting of one or more controls and will remove all MinWidth, MinHeight, x:Name, Name, Margin properties and will set all row and column definitions to Auto.
* Remove Margins - allows selecting one or more controls and removes the Margin property from them
* Edit Grid & Column Rows - allows selecting a grid and then add or remove rows and columns

I love CodeProject as a source of ideas and solutions. This article describes a Vista-like BreadCrumbBar in WPF.




The control is part of a WIP Control Libray, and can be used to display your location in a hierarchy.

Today Jesse Liberty shows how he has embraced Silverlight as his platform of choice to 'throw together small applications' as he puts it. In 20 mins he put together a simple app in SL2; the app itself isn't that spectacular (it's a stopwatch), but the fact that SL is mature enough to do quick and dirty development in it, is quite an accomplishment.



The easy integration between Blend and Visual Studio combined with cross-platform clients makes SL an exiting technology. I really have been ignoring it a little bit too much. This is mostly due to the fact that a lot of clients are hesitant to utilize it. I hope that changes when Silverlight 2 ships. After all, isn't it great that with a single skillset (WPP, XAML and C#) you can target both web and windows using almost the excact same programming model! I sure like it, anyway :)