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Silverlight 2 SDK for Visual Studio 2008
This package is an add-on to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 1. It provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.
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Article: What Does it Take to Build the Best RIA?
With the proliferation of Rich Interactive Application (RIA) platform choices out there, you no longer have to take a one-size-fits-all approach to developing your next RIA application. Knowing the strengths (and weaknesses) of each platform can help you to decide the best RIA for your next application.
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Expression Blend 2.5 Preview
Use Expression Blend 2.5 to create and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression Blend 2 but has not reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development. »
The Hottest Mobile Platform Meets the Hottest RIA Platform
With the Symbian OS now supporting Microsoft Silverlight, mobile developers can bring new and exciting capabilities to handsets all over the globe. Find out why developers now need to make mobile devices a core part of their RIA development strategy.
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Article: Leveraging Your Flash Development with Silverlight
You're not giving up Flash any time soon (and we don't blame you.) But if you could get your Flash application working in Silverlight, why wouldn't you? We show you the tools and techniques required to have your rockin' Flash application rolled for Silverlight.
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Storing Bitmaps into an Array
Rating: Alex Belousov - 10/07/2002 See how to store an array of bitmaps with this class. The bitmaps can be of any size, and the array can be as big as memory will allow.
Exploring the Internal Structure of a 24-Bit Uncompressed Bitmap File
Rating: Hanbo Sun - 09/24/2002 Discover the internal structure of a 24-bit uncompressed bitmap file, as well as how you can load such a file and store RGB values into a linear array. Load the pixels of a bitmap without using Win32 API functions or other third-party classes (such as MFC).
Finding Similarity Between Images
Rating: Danang Suharno - 09/18/2002 Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a way to index or find a similarity between images in a multimedia database.
Changing Bitmaps Color Depth
Rating: none Gerd Esser - 03/18/2002 Enables you to decrease the color depth of incredibly hi-res bitmaps
Parametric Bitmap
Rating: none Konstantin Efimov - 01/14/2002 Learn when and how to create parametric bitmaps.
Real Time 2D Graph
Rating: none B.Manivannan - 11/05/2001 [Updated] Graphically displaying real-time data.
CPicture - The Yovav (Horror) PictureShow
Rating: Dr. Yovav Gad - 09/17/2001 This article presents a way to load a JPG (and other formats) from a resource and show it on a dialog based application.
Using a Camera with Windows Mobile 5
Rating: Amit Ranjan - 07/21/2006 Learn how to access a camera and capture video by using a Windows Mobile 5.0 API called DirectShow.
Displaying a Bitmap from a BMP File
Rating: Ramakrishna Talla - 04/03/2003 Loading a bitmap can be relatively simple. See one more step-by-step approach to loading and using a bitmap.
Using Windows Vista Icons
Rating: vlasta - 05/18/2006 Learn about the changes in the .ico format in Windows Vista and how to compile Vista icons into your applications.
CreateGrayscaleIcon()
Rating: none Davide Calabro - 04/23/2002 A Win32 function to create grayscale icons.
Convert 32x32 icon to 16x16
Rating: none Fabio Falsini - 01/17/2002 A solution to convert an icon from 32x32 format to 16x16.
Image Manipulation
Anti-Aliased Image Transformation (Aaform)
Rating: msg555 - 12/19/2005 Given an image and a quadralateral, Aaform will fit the image onto the quadraleteral passed using geometry.
Puzzle, a Game with the MFC Doc/View Architecture (SDI/MDI)
Rating: Georges Dumond - 06/02/2005 Learn how to display a menu with thumbnails and several other windows, move and manage the pieces of a puzzle with a linked list, and then show them without flicker.
Managed C++: Loading and Displaying Images
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 11/29/2004 For years, one of the biggest complaints about MFC was its lack of imaging support. Tom Archer shows how Managed C++, the .NET Image class, and the PictureBox control make loading, displaying, and dynamically sizing an image a snap.
Quick Image Stretching Technique
Rating: Andy McGovern - 11/26/2002 The ability to draw an image on the screen that is a different size than the original source image is incredibly easy. In this article, learn how to do it quicker and more efficiently.
[Updated] Working with TIFF Images
Rating: Andy McGovern - 11/16/2004 Learn about an implementation of a simple approach that will allow you to include support for TIFF files in your applications with a few library calls.
Creating the CBitmapPicture Object
Rating: none Brandyn Ashing Infinger - 10/07/2002 Allow the user to load jpg, gif, bmp, and dib formats from a file or resource and store them as CBitmap objects.
Changing a CBitmap's Palette
Rating: Erik Gillespie - 02/24/2003 Learn how to change a CBitmap's palette to an arbitrary palette stored in a CPalette object.
Obtaining High-Color Splash Screens
Rating: none Rajesh Parikh - 05/24/2002 In todays world of high quality graphics you need a way to display high color bitmap as the splash screen of your applications. By default VC++ provides a 16 color bitmap for the splash screen. Learn how to increase this to a higher number of colors.
A True Color Wheel
Rating: none John Killingbeck - 08/01/1999 A True Color Wheel
Special Effects
Blur Blending Method
Rating: none Jean-Rémi Pinna - 06/04/2002 Discover how to blend a RGB bitmap with the Blur method. It use HBITMAP, GetDibBits and SetDibBits.
Accelerated Smooth Bitmap Resizing
Rating: Ivaylo Byalkov - 02/20/2001 Great code to use when we want to resize a bitmap and have the resulting bitmap be of the highest possible quality
Win32 C Function for High-Quality Bitmap Shrinking
Rating: none Petr Spacil - 11/01/2000 Replacement function for StretchBlt that enables you to produce Adobe Photoshop-quality images when shrinking bitmaps
How to Save and Load a Windows Region with the Win32 API
Rating: none Marc Gregoire - 04/12/2007 Learn how to save a Windows region to a file with GetRegionData and how to load and re-create it with ExtCreateRegion the Win32 API way.
Managed C++: Rubber-Banding and Cropping Images
Rating: none Tom Archer - MSFT - 12/01/2004 Learn how .NET enables you to easily allow your users to create a cropping area of an image with the mouse and then create a new image consisting of only that cropped area.
[Updated] ImageStone
Rating: crazybit - 03/21/2007 ImageStone is a powerful C++ class library for image manipulation. It is written in pure C++ and is easily portable. Its features include load/save (supports BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF, ICO, TGA, PCX, PSD...), display, histogram, undo/redo, and image transformation with over 100 predefined effects.
2D & 3D Visualization Techniques for Geo-Referenced Images
Rating: Andy McGovern - 02/23/2005 Provides some conceptual background for working with geo-referenced imagery and specific details for GeoTIFF images. Also provides a 2D & 3D sample project with first person fly throughs.
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Silverlight 2 SDK for Visual Studio 2008
Article: What Does it Take to Build the Best RIA? 
Expression Blend 2.5 Preview
The Hottest Mobile Platform Meets the Hottest RIA Platform 
Article: Leveraging Your Flash Development with Silverlight 
