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• Accessing the canvas in a Silverlight 1.1 User Control

  When you create a Silverlight User Control from a piece of XAML, you expect to be able to modify the Canvas using the a standard property. After all, the control’s XAML is a Canvas. Foo.xaml <Canvas xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Width="100" Height="100" Background="CornflowerBlue" > </Canvas> However, the Control interface doesn’t have an accessor for the Canvas. Looking at the control in the debugger, you find [...] Posted Jan 30 2008, 02:55 PM by Vectorform - Silverlight Code Examples Filed under: User Interface, Application, Components, 1.1 Alpha, XAML

• Silverlight Viewports

  One thing you usually recognize about web-based games is that they generally have a fixed view. With a fixed view, your game world matches the web control 1:1. What if you want the game to take place in a larger space, like an entire world, or a galaxy. In the game world, you’d create a [...] Posted Nov 14 2007, 01:21 PM by Vectorform - Silverlight Code Examples Filed under: User Interface, Components, 1.1 Alpha, Games