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Hello Everyone,

Rick here again with another little blurb on my most recent Silverlight project, KBay. Today, I'd like to write a little bit about what went right.

KBay Home Page

Separation of Power

One of the biggest attributes of KBay's success, IMO, was the segregation of development. My coworker Adam (Hi Adam!) and I handled the majority of the work for this project. The initial goal was to try to...

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Hey everyone,

It's me again, Rick the Silverlight nut. I've been buried under a pile of work this last month and haven't had a chance to post much of the fun stuff I've been working on. But I've got a few minutes to write about my last big project. So I give you, the story of KBay:

KBay sample screen

The Story So Far...

I work for Kerry Americas, a food product company with a corporate office in Beloit...

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Just a quickie from the Silverlight front today.

Visual States and the VSM are awesome tools to handling most of your application's animations. One annoyance though, Visual States do not have a .Completed event!

Luckily for us, Visual States are composed of Story Boards. Story Boards DO have .Completed events :)

To get it to work, it's really simple. First, create your event handling method:

vb.net Sample Code (See Article for Rest)
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Silverlight 2 got released about a week ago. And this is what ScottGu promises us.

Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plug-in that enables rich media experiences and .NET RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) within the browser.



Silverlight 2 is small in size (4.6MB) and takes only 4-10 seconds to instal...

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.

Microsoft also announced further support of open source communities by funding advanced Silverlight development capabilities with the Eclipse Foundation...

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