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Defend Stuff: A Silverlight 2 Game

SilverlightAddict.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:34:00 GMT

Defend Stuff is a tower defense game written in Silverlight 2. There is this ‘stuff’ that you are supposed to protect from the ‘bad guys’. You have rocket turrets, machine guns, and a seismic disruptor thingy. You can place turrets throughout the map...(read more)

Silverlight Links

SilverlightAddict.com — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:15:00 GMT

There is already an incredible wealth of samples, articles, tutorials, and applications out there for Silverlight. Here is a list of the links I like to keep my eye on. Scott Guthrie Tim Heuer (be sure to check out his video podcasts on Silverlight) Adam...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Beta 2: Value does not fall within the expected range

SilverlightAddict.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:32:00 GMT

This can come from a number of potential errors with XAML. The first thing I now check, is to see if I am attempting to add multiple FrameworkElements with the same x:Name. For me, I was dynamically adding usercontrols to a canvas, but I made the mistake...(read more)

SilverLander: A Silverlight 2 Game (updated for Beta 2)

SilverlightAddict.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:26:00 GMT

This was my first Silverlight game. I have now updated it for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ( here is the Beta 1 version ). The game counts down and begins the lander on approach from the top left of the screen. Your job is to bring the lander to a safe slow ...(read more)

Runtime Alternative to XamlReader.Load in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

SilverlightAddict.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:37:00 GMT

This Sample was update for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ( the beta 1 example is here ) I can see XamlReader.Load has it's uses for adding FrameworkElements at runtime, but I really hate the way the code looks. Additionally, I don't like the idea of managing...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 %project%TextPage.html Looking for Beta 1 (installed version 2.0.30523 requested version 2.0.30226)

SilverlightAddict.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:41:00 GMT

I converted a Beta 1 project to Beta 2 and made a few fixes to get it up and running. However, I noticed the testpage.html was still looking for the previous version of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. It's a quick fix: Create a new Silverlight 2 Beta 2 project...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Beta 2: "Operation could destabilize the runtime"

SilverlightAddict.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:07:00 GMT

I ran into this after having Visual Studio convert my Beta 1 project to Beta 2. System.Security.VerificationException was unhandled by user code Message=" Operation could destabilize the runtime ." I created a new Beta 2 solution from scratch...(read more)

The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open. Silverlight

SilverlightAddict.com — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:26:00 GMT

I am getting this error when publishing the a asp.net website that gets added to he solution for Silverlight applications in Visual Studio 2008. The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open. I do not know the root...(read more)

SilverLander: A Silverlight 2 Game

SilverlightAddict.com — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:59:00 GMT

This was my first Silverlight game. I have now updated it for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 ( here is the Beta 2 version ). The game counts down and begins the lander on approach from the top left of the screen. Your job is to bring the lander to a safe slow ...(read more)

WatiN SelectList Name

RogerGuess.net — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:37:00 GMT

WatiN does not currently expose the name property of a select list. However, there is still a way to get at it if you have the element that represents it with a reference to Microsoft.mshtml: foreach ( Element element in ie.Elements) { string name = Read...(read more)

Runtime Alternative to XamlReader.Load in Silverlight

SilverlightAddict.com — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:01:00 GMT

Update: This was a Silverlight Beta 1 example. Beta 2 now has updates to make this even easier. Here is an example . I can see XamlReader.Load has it's uses for adding FrameworkElements at runtime, but I really hate the way the code looks. Additionally...(read more)

WatiN TextField and ASP.NET AJAX MaskedEdit Controls

RogerGuess.net — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT

If you have tried to user WatiN tests to set the value of text boxes/fields, you likely have run into a few things. First, this... ie.TextField("ID").Value = "some text"; is much faster than this... ie.TextField("ID").TypeText...(read more)

SilverTwitter: A Service Enabled Silverlight App

RogerGuess.net — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:42:00 GMT

I am finally uploading that sample app I used for my FWDNUG talk this past Tuesday. Check it out on SilverlightAddict.com email it! reddit! del.icio.us digg it! Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 2 - More Goodness from ScottGu

SilverlightAddict.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:27:00 GMT

Scott has a post ' First Look at Silverlight 2 ' that reveals some goodies coming up in the Beta1 release. He has also listed a number of great Silverlight tutorials: Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 Part...(read more)

Introducing: SilverlightAddict.com

RogerGuess.net — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:19:00 GMT

SilverlightAddict.com was launched today. The goal is to become a rich content driven sitcky website for all things Silverlight. email it! reddit! del.icio.us digg it! Read More......(read more)