Live Media GPS = Awesome!

I was browsing http://www.liveside.net  last night and saw this article on a really killer Windows Mobile application called Live Media GPS. If some of you have heard of Qik, it’s the same concept. It has a software component that runs on your GPS enabled Windows Mobile phone and allows you to stream videos on the… Continue reading Live Media GPS = Awesome!

Yet another deep zoom application

Came across another really awesome Silverlight Application that makes use of Deep Zoom done by Kelly Blue Book which I believe they call The Perfect Car Finder. Tim Heuer talks about it more in his blog post. Building deep zoom applications can actually be pretty straightforward. All you need to do is make use of… Continue reading Yet another deep zoom application

Mix for Students: facebook development on .NET

I did a session on facebook development using the facebook developer toolkit where I also showed how I integrated my Piss Off Silverlight application into a facebook app, which I now call PissBook. I’ve registered the pissbook url but have yet to point it to my app as it seems that facebook isn’t allowing me… Continue reading Mix for Students: facebook development on .NET

Embed a font

If you want to embed a font into your Silverlight applications, add the font into your project: Set the Build Action file property to embedded resource: Use the following code snippet to use the font as a font source for your components: Assembly ass = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); Stream stream = ass.GetManifestResourceStream("EmbeddedResource.Font.pricedow.ttf"); this.test.FontSource = new FontSource(stream); this.test.FontFamily… Continue reading Embed a font