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Defend Stuff: A Silverlight 2 Game

by RogerGuess 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...

Silverlight Links

by RogerGuess 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...

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

by RogerGuess 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...

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

by RogerGuess 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 ...

Runtime Alternative to XamlReader.Load in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

by RogerGuess 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...

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

by RogerGuess 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...

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

by RogerGuess 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...

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

by RogerGuess 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...

SilverLander: A Silverlight 2 Game

by RogerGuess 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 ...

Runtime Alternative to XamlReader.Load in Silverlight

by RogerGuess 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...

SilverTwitter: A Service Enabled Silverlight App

by RogerGuess This Silverlight application is a simple example of how to consume data from a web service. This sample was built with: Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 Download the source Note: There are three projects in...

Silverlight 2 - More Goodness from ScottGu

by RogerGuess 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...

SilverLander: A Silverlight Game

by RogerGuess I updated this to Silverlight 2 Beta 2 HERE Here is my first Silverlight game. 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 (and upright) landing on the surface...

Silverlight in CommunityServer

by RogerGuess I ran into a few issues getting a silverlight app running inside CommunityServer ( version is 2007.1 ). To keep things clean, I am publishing all required files for the silverlight app in it's own folder off the root of the site. I then want to embed...

SpaceRocks "With Friggin Laser Beams"

by RogerGuess I updated Bill Reiss demo on SpaceRocks to include firing at the asteroids. If you have not checked out his demos's yet, be sure to visit SilverlightRocks . He got it all started, and I just added one extra step ( Keep em' coming Bill! ). I added...