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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from .NET programming using WPF, Silverlight, XNA, and Windows Phone, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, to woodworking, CNC and generally "making real stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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Silverlight-in-Action
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My new Silverlight book, Silverlight 4 in Action is
now out in paper, published by Manning. Several folks received
their copies today, including me
The eBook was made available last week for people who ordered it
from Manning. MEAP (early access) customers also received their
eBook editions on the same day.
Source code is coming this week. I have half of it uploaded to
the internal Manning...
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Today, I completed the last chapter in my book, Silverlight in
Action Revised Edition by Manning. I have one chapter still in
tech review, but authoring the chapters is now complete.
Phew!
The book, before any image resizing or
print layout, has ended up at 819 pages. The page count in Word and
the book page count are usually in the same ballpark. Add in the
intro materials, toc, and index...
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This is an unedited, raw, excerpt from chapter 24 of my book, Silverlight in
Action. The chapter as a whole covers creating custom panels
and controls. This excerpt covers creating a custom layout panel
which arranges items in a circular or orbital fashion.
24.1 Creating a Custom Panel
In chapter 6, I covered the layout system. In that system, the
primary responsibility for positioning and s...
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What follows is a raw excerpt (before copy editing or final tech
reviews) from chapter 20 in my book, Silverlight in
Action. This is just a small portion of chapter 20, which
covers the media element, streaming, using IIS Smooth streaming,
using the Silverlight Media Framework, creating raw video and
audio, and using the webcam and microphone APIs. I've blogged bits
and pieces on this topic be...
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I'm working rapidly towards finishing up Silverlight in
Action, Revised Edition. As part of the work for this, I find
myself taking screenshots pretty regularly.
For a print publication, you want your screenshots to be the
highest resolution possible. A screen is usually 96dpi, while a
book is 300, 600 or more dpi. One way to handle the difference is
to just design big: use big fonts,...
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I'm on the road to finishing up Silverlight in
Action, Revised edition. This is really turning out to be the
definitive Silverlight book. I hope you all enjoy reading it as
much as I have enjoyed writing it.
One interesting thing that has happened is that the book has
almost doubled in size from the previous edition. I keep running
across things that I just think are really important ...
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On Wednesday February 10, 2010 my book is on sale at Manning for 50% off.That’s print, MEAP, e-book or any combination of the bunch. This is a special thanks for blog subscribers and twitter followers.To get the discount, visit my book page on Manning, choose the eBook or print book. When you’re ready to check out, enter the code:silver50nowin the coupon code box. The coupon is good...
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If you subscribe to my blog (you’re here, and it’s easy, just do it .. dooo itttt ;) click the RSS link above) there’s a Manning deal on my book coming next week. It’ll only be around for one day (Manning sets the terms, not me) and it is a really good deal.If you haven’t checked it out yet, I encourage you to do so. Some chapters are already available to peop...
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Over the past 13 1/2 years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some really talented developers, architects and designers in what I and many others consider to be one of the very best .NET consulting companies on the east coast: Applied Information Sciences (AIS).AIS hired me right out of college and moved me down to Maryland from New England back in 1996. During my interview, due to t...
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One reason I’ve been so quiet over the past couple months, is I have been scrambling to update Chad Campbell and John Stockton’s excellent Manning Silverlight 2 in Action book to Silverlight 3, under the title Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition (the Amazon info is out of date), to be released this fall. I’ve done a little restructuring (but not a ton) in the process, and have also been coverin...
