Silverlight 3’s New Animation Easing
Easing is a new feature of Silverlight 3 for dressing up animations. I’ve often told students and conference audiences that you can’t simulate physics with simple linear animations (also known […]
Silverlight 3’s New Pixel Shaders
Silverlight 3 is loaded with new graphical goodies, and one of the goodies I’m most excited about is pixel shaders. A pixel shader is an object that transforms pixels output from […]
More on Silverlight 3’s Writeable Bitmap
One of the WPF features that I miss in Silverlight is VisualBrush. Among other things, VisualBrush makes it easy to generate simulated reflections. To create reflections in Silverlight, we typically […]
Silverlight 3’s New Writeable Bitmap
Another of the exciting new features coming in Silverlight 3 is the WriteableBitmap class. Silverlight 2 had no API for creating bitmaps, but WriteableBitmap makes creating bitmaps on the fly […]
Silverlight 3’s New Perspective Transform
One of the many, many new features coming in Silverlight 3 (and featured in Silverlight 3 Beta 1, which shipped this week) is the perspective transform. In the Silverlight MyComix viewer […]
Mandelbrot and the Southern Fried Roadshow
I’m packing up my stuff to head for Atlanta tomorrow and speak at MSDN’s Southern Fried Roadshow. If you attend, you’ll get to see a demo that I just put […]
Upcoming Appearances
Winter’s almost over and I’m excited that the weather is improving. This time of year, I’m glad I live in the south because I’m ready for warmth. To satisfy my […]
MVC Demo Updated for RC
Microsoft recently published the RC release of their ASP.NET MVC Framework, and I’ve updated my “Jeff’s Hangar” MVC sample accordingly. The RC contains some cool new features, especially with regard […]
Blast from the Past: How Son-Of-FDISK Saved My Computer
You can tell how long someone has been around computers by mentioning “FDISK” and seeing if you’re met with a blank stare. Not many people remember FDISK. But for those […]