http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:01:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a bit of news today. We are launching a new blog on the Microsoft Surface. We've been doing Surface development over the last 6 months so we've posted just a few of the things we've been working on. Enjoy! http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/08/21/new-vectorform-blog-microsoft-surface/ Due to the great demand that we have received for products developed using Silverlight, we are now looking to expand our team. To be considered for employment at Vectorform, you must have the desire to work in a collaborative environment, but also have the ability to research and develop ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/06/09/now-hiring-silverlight-developer/ The Silverlight Streaming service is great for hosting your applications but what if you just want to host your assets there, particularly your heavy bandwidth assets like videos? Well the process is a bit like uploading an application (covered in the previous post) but with a few differences. You still need ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/02/06/silverlight-streaming-for-video-assets-only/ Another post on some info that I thought was intially hard to find. Using the Silverlight Streaming service provided by Windows Live. The Silverlight Streaming service is meant to be a convenient place where designers and developers can host Silverlight Applications they build for free. To use the service to host your application you must ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/02/05/silverlight-streaming-service/ Silverlight is great at being able to use vector art work so that you maintain quality at any viewing size. The problem is sometimes vector artwork can actually get larger in file size than raster images. To save on bandwidth, a good strategy for optimizing Silverlight is to create a ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/02/01/compressing-xaml-to-save-on-file-size/ This one is pretty basic but it is useful and the info doesn’t seem to be easily accessible so I decided to post a quick example. You can use the content property of the plugin to gain access to elements in your XAML. So say you want to have a link ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/01/31/controlling-silverlight-outside-of-the-plugin-the-content-property/ 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 ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2008/01/30/accessing-the-canvas-in-a-silverlight-11-user-control/ Vectorform is proud to present Xmas Drop a new Silverlight 1.1 game with full C# source. In Xmas Drop, you play the role of Milo. The only security elf on duty when the toy factory exploded. It's up to you and Milo to save Christmas. Help Milo catch presents using the arrow ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2007/12/11/happy-silverlight-holidays-from-vectorform/ The Vectorform Shooter project (codename VectorLight) is almost complete. Check out version 0.7. New in this update: Improved graphics from our creative team Improved game pacing Improved sound and music Enemies come at you in different formations More enemies types to challenge you "Blossom of Death" for those desperate situations Global high score tracking Things to do: Polish Polish Polish Tweak We've learned a ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2007/12/06/silverlight-shooter-nears-completion/ We thought we'd give a glimpse behind the scenes of the making of the Surface video. The video serves as a showcase piece for the Silverlight video players we post and this spot introduces you to the gurus who create the magic. Client: Internal Title:  "Infinite Possibilities" Artists: Aaron Mustamaa     Concept / Storyboarding / ... http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/index.php/2007/11/21/microsoft-surface-animation-the-making-of-infinite-possibilities/