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FW: Silverlight - default fonts
24 Sep 2007, 10:59:00 AM
Whist working on a Silverlight 1.1 application I wanted to use a font called “black castle mf” which is installed on my machine. In my XAML I set the text blocks”FontFamiliy” property to use this font. However when the screen renders the ...
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Silverlight 1.1 - Downloader and Visual Studio 2008
19 Sep 2007, 03:28:00 PM
This week I lost my Silverlight virginity. I have been working on a pet project in my spare time with the aim of finally getting up to speed on Silverlight. One thing I found out about is the downloader object. This object lets you load up a s ...
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MAME V2.0
11 Sep 2007, 08:59:00 PM
At the beginning of the year I moved house and one of the things I “lost (MAME R.I.P)” during the move was my custom home made MAME arcade cabinet. It has took me a while to get settled into the new place and get some essentials in such as a s ...
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Linq skip and take for paging
07 Sep 2007, 08:54:00 AM
I have recently had the chance to play around with Linq to SQL in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. It provides a really quick and easy way of getting data out of a SQL database and into Model objects. One of the challenges I have faced is with regar ...
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