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Individual Silverlight Control Products Now Available

By The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms

Silverlight Studio 2012.1 was released a little over a week ago and one thing we wanted to highlight was new purchasing options. In the past, the only way to get our Silverlight products was via the Silverlight Studio bundle. As of version 2012 Read More......(read...

Getting Started with CSS Media Queries

By dwahlin

If you've ever printed a page and noticed that it looks different than the actual page displayed in the browser you've more than likely witnessed a CSS media type in action. By using CSS media types such as "print", backgrounds, navigation bars, and...

Arduino and the Web using NodeJS and SerialPort2

By Bangon Kali

This article focuses on how to listen for signals from an Arduino through the Serial Port (Linux, Mac) or COM Port for Windows using the SerialPort2 Node.JS module and serve signal data to the web in real time using Socket.IO.

.NET Rocks! Podcast: Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11

By Beth Massi

Check it out, I've got another podcast with Richard and Carl this time talking about the new features in LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11. I always have a ton of fun talking with these guys and you can tell I'm super excited about the next version...

Review: Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5

By Jason Gleim

A review of Mastering LOB Development for SL 5 from Packt Publishing

Web Tab Control

By Ed Nutting

A tab control for the web that can be created dynamically in C#. Uses JavaScript so tabs can be changed without refreshing the page allowing ease-of-use on things like Account Information pages.

3.5.4 HTML5 Canvas KineticJS Shadows

By Eric Rowell

To apply shadows withKineticJS, we can set the shadow property when we instantiate a shape, or we can use thesetShadow()method. Shadows can be defined with a color, blur, offset, and alpha.

Flash Player 11.2 custom right-click example

By Lee Brimelow

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Brussels putting together some demos for my presentation tomorrow. Below you can check out my example of creating a custom right-click menu in Flash Player 11.2. You can also download the FLA but make sure you have CS6...

An introduction to cross-platform mobile development technologies

By Robert Chipperfield

Smartphones and tablets are becoming ubiquitous, and, with them, mobile apps. But what does the proliferation of different devices mean for developers entering the market? Do you target a single platform, build your app twice for iOS and Android, or use a cross-platform...

Retrieve System Information in Silverlight

By psheriff

In a Silverlight application we are building for a client, they wanted an About screen that would display system information such as the current URL, the operating system name and version, the product name and various other information. In the same application,...