Silverlight Blog

Many of you will know, that Silverlight 3 has a new class called WritableBitmap. We can now create Bitmaps on-the-fly.  At the moment one interest of mine is Silverlight Game-programming and I thought, this class may also help to build pixel based Collision-Detection.

Guess what, I found an article from Andy Beaulieu doing exactly that:

" Improved HitTest Method for Silverlight 3" from Andy Beaulieu

Good afternoon,

one of my expectations as a Software Developer in 2010 is, that the WCF RIA Services for Silverlight will become a huge  thing. So I did some research, and found a nice webcast by Ronnie Sauermann from Microsoft Switzerland. I met him during a project I did last summer, and he has a very good way to explain things. check it out! I unfortunately found no way to directly bookmark the video. So click the link and navigate down to Ronnies Video about RIA Services.

Video from Shapes ‘09 about WCF RIA Services

There is a new Kid in SL-IDE-Town, and its called Eclipse4SL. To be honest, it isn’t really new, cause development started in 2008. But end of  2009 they released Version 1.0.

The Features of this Version are:

• Silverlight 2.0 support
• C# code editor with syntax colorization, keywords and template code completion assist
• Automatic Build & Run
• Configurable Web application launch facilities
• Silverlight Project System and Silverlight Compiler: both an advanced project system for creating Silverlight applications and media experiences.
• XAML Editor & Preview: advanced, standards-compliant XAML editor with code hinting and code completion features which helps detect and correct coding errors.
• Move and Rename refactoring
• Advanced Media Features
• Cross Platform Capabilities (Mac version)
• Complete user documentation & Prescriptive Tutorials
• Defects & Regression Testing
• Developer Usability Testing

Version 2.0 is planned for Spring 2010. This is the roadmap:

• Silverlight 3.0 support
• Completion of re-organization Silverlight development environment
• Completion of the Extensibility, Support for Multiple Projects
• Improvements to Mac Platform
• Completion of Silverlight 3.0 Runtime Support "out of browser"

More Information can be found on the projects website www.eclipse4sl.org

If you are a Mac-User, there is also a plug-in for you. Check out the Microsoft Interop Website for Eclipse4SL.