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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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Barry's Screen Capture
Rating: none Barretto VN - 02/04/2003 Capture different portions of the screen and the save them to a file. (The source code was updated.)
Fills
Creating Pattern Brushes
Rating: none Mahipal Reddy Goli - 07/30/2003 Use the details of using PatternBrushes to fill the interiors of rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and paths.
Font Handling and Detection
Retrieving the Font Name from a TTF File
Rating: none Philip Patrick - 05/28/2002 You can always get the font name of one of your installed fonts. But what if the font is still not installed in the system and you want to know its name programmatically?
Fonts Hot ComboBox
Rating: none Alan Kelly - 01/19/2001 "Hot ComboBox" that dynamically loads and displays all fonts in the system (with each font name displayed in its own font)
Detecting the Display Font Size
Rating: none chensu - 07/23/2000 Simple function to enable you to programmatically detect the user-selected font at runtime
Font Selector Combobox
Rating: none Igo - 05/11/2000 Nifty little combobox control that lists all fonts on system and allows you to view each one's impact on test string
Automatic Font Handling Class
Rating: none Jamie Nordmeyer - 05/01/2000 Wrapper class that greatly eases task of using fonts from within an application
Draw the US flag using GDI
Rating: none Oren Leavitt - 10/10/2001 Just for fun, or perhaps even useful, here is a function to draw the US flag to a given HDC, in a given RECT.
Draw a curve with control points
Rating: Tao Chen - 10/09/2001 How to draw a curve with a couple of mouse clicks. Source Code Updated.
Drawing an ArrowLine
Rating: none Mayank Malik - 09/28/2001 Support for drawing an arrow line / measuring line.
Drawing any N-sided Polygon
Rating: none Mayank Malik - 08/13/2001 Drawing N-sided polygons with roughly 20 lines of code!
Crosshairs and Supporting Text That Moves
Rating: Friedrich Brunzema - 06/04/2001 This article shows how to draw crosshairs, but more importantly how to draw text and other GDI objects that need to be moved (and redrawn) interactively by the user.
Progress Sphere
Rating: none Robert Tari - 06/23/2006 Learn about a class that displays and automates a translucent, shadowed modal dialog with a progress sphere.
Mould Text in Any Shape
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 02/07/2006 Sometimes, putting text in a rectangular block may just be a little too straight. With the C++ class QEnvelopeText, you can mould a piece of body type in any shape.
Let Your Characters Dance and Wiggle
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 10/24/2005 This versatile class arranges the characters of a text string along any curve.
Make GDI+ Less Finicky About Fonts
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 09/23/2005 Windows GDI+ understands only half of the fonts out there. Use the QGraphicsText class to work with the other half.
Drawing Curved Objects
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 09/08/2005 Add support for interactive curve drawing to your MFC app by dropping in theQBezierTracker class.
[Updated] "Rubber Sheeting" with QWarpTracker
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 09/01/2005 Warping is the most drastic way to change the form of a GDI+ graphics object. The class QWarpTracker lets you do it interactively.
Managed C++: Use GDI+ to Render Reflected Text
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 11/22/2004 Tom Archer illustrates how you can use the TranslateTransform and ScaleTransform methods to invert and display the reflection of a string.
Managed Extensions: Using GDI+ to Render Sheared Text
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 11/15/2004 Tom Archer illustrates how the Matrix object and transforms enable you to draw horizontally or vertically sheared text.
Managed Extensions: Using GDI+ to Draw 3D Text
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 10/25/2004 Learn how to use GDI+ to render several 3D text effects, such as shadowed, blocked, embossed, and engraved text.
Managed Extensions: Using GDI+ Brushes to Draw Text
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 10/19/2004 Tom Archer illustrates how the combination of Managed Extensions and GDI+ enable you to draw gradient and hatched text with only a few lines of C++ code.
Better GIFs with Octrees
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 02/06/2004 Use adaptive color quantization to create better GIF files with GDI+.
A Sharp View with QGaussFilter
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 02/04/2004 Despite its somewhat confusing name, Unsharp Mask is an important procedure to enhance the quality of bitmap pictures. The QGaussFilter class performs Unsharp Mask, and more. (The project code was updated.)
Image Properties Revealed
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 11/04/2003 Learn everything you always wanted to know about your bitmap pictures, and more, with QImageProperties.
Weird Warps
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 09/02/2003 GDI+ lets you "warp" graphics objects. At least, that's the story. In reality, the method is buggy to an unacceptable degree.
Playing with ColorMatrix
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 08/12/2003 You can do great things with ColorMatrix in GDI+. Use the QColorMatrix class to open up the possibilities. You'll be able to affect gamma, saturation, contrast, brightness, hue, and more. (The demo project and source code were updated.)
Image Processing using GDI+ and VC++ 6.0
Rating: Deepak Gupta - 02/07/2003 GDI+ can be used for image processing. Learn a simpler way to use the methods that directly address pixels to allows image processing capabilities.
JTDraw Update
Rating: none Tao Zhu - 06/03/2002 A simple drawing program with GDI+ support.
The GDI+
Rating: Leandro Gustavo Biss Becker - 09/20/2001 The Microsoft GDI+ can do many cool things for you. One of these things is the ability to load or save images of a number of different types.
Icons and Cursors
How to Construct a Reusable Silverlight ASP.NET User Control
Rating: none Chad Campbell - 05/01/2007 Silverlight provides new opportunities for building lasting connections with users. In this article, you will learn how to use this new tool to create a simple logo control.
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.
Icon2002/2003
Rating: Stefaan Casier - 03/26/2003 How to create MS Windows icons and cursors. More specifically, you'll learn how to extract them from EXEs and from resources, and then how to make icon groups. A simple Icon/Cursor Editor is included. (The demo project and source code were updated.)
Lines
Drawing Lines Using Line Equations
Rating: Mahipal Reddy Goli - 09/08/2003 Learn how to draw lines in XY axes as well as how to find the slope of the line based on the line equation.
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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 
