Recently I’ve had a few questions about how to dynamically set or change the visual theme for a Silverlight application at runtime. The scenario is generally that an application has many possible themes, and needs to pick one depending on, for instance, a particular user or client who has logged in. What if these themes [...]
I just wanted to call attention to the fact that the Microsoft Surface team recently released a manipulation (gestures) and inertia sample specifically for Silverlight!
On the back of the Microsoft Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 Workstation Edition that was recently announced at PDC for creating and testing Surface applications on a regular desktop computer, this separate [...]
The Silverlight team receives a lot of feedback about features that users would love to see, and right click support was quite high on the list (currently #2). So, I’m pleased to say that right click events are fully supported in the new Silverlight 4 beta release recently announced at PDC!
It’s clear there are a [...]
Silverlight 3 provides all the info you need to receive and interpret multi-touch input on Windows 7, but it takes some work to translate these events into standard gestures – like “pinching” to zoom in or out (a list of other common gestures, and some good background info, can be found on the Engineering Windows 7 [...]
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