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2009 13

  1. This Blog Has Moved - Update your links to nokola.com/blog
  2. Exposed: 5 methods to create game loop: which is the best?
  3. Nice background image
  4. Large Star Field - Take 2, how to make it look "deep" and more reallistic
  5. Large Star Field in Silverlight - Taste of Game, Part 2
  6. A Taste of What's To Come - My New Game Concept Art
  7. Human Movements - The Easiest Motion Capture File Format
  8. Reallistic Human Movements in Silverlight - My Own Motion Capture Viewer!
  9. Silverlight: Super-fast Dymanic Image Generation Code (Revisited)
  10. Windows 7 Look-alike Taskbar Button Control in Silverlight
  11. Silverlight Game Competition - $5000 prize
  12. Anatomy of a Silverlight Game: Avoid Common Mistakes When Building Online Games
  13. Play this Silverlight Game Online: Shock v2

2008 33

  1. Cool All-age Silverlight Game
  2. XAML PowerToys for VisualStudio - Speed up Development of Business Apps and Just Edit XAML Faster!
  3. 3 Easy Steps to WPF Pixel Shaders. Template Project and Five Shader Samples (Twirl UI, Light, Blobs, Grayscale and Wave reflection)
  4. Cool Silverlight Splash Screen Concept Demo (including Source Code)
  5. 7 Easy Steps to Learn C#: Silverlight C# Compiler and Loading DLLs from a server at runtime in Silverlight
  6. ASP.NET Authentication for Silverlight Applications (Accessing ASP.NET Membership, Profile and Role Services)
  7. Building the Reallistic Water Ripples Sample in Silverlight
  8. Optimized Joe Stegman's Dynamic Image Generation (Twice the Speed)
  9. EasyHyperbar Navigation Control - A hyperbar, only easier (in Silverlight)
  10. Ray Tracing in Silverlight
  11. Silverlight: How to Make Your WCF Web Service Work for All Users
  12. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Is Released!!!
  13. Deep Zoom - Redefining *Any* Web Site Experience (super cool, check it out)
  14. LayoutTransform control in Silverlight 2
  15. Building 1977 Computer Emulator in Silverlight
  16. What's new In the WPF 3.5 SP1 Visual Studio Editor with Erick Ellis and Mark Wilson-Thomas
  17. Create Your Own Silverlight HD Video Tutorial: From Video File to Working Silverlight Streaming Application
  18. Reading Embedded Resources
  19. Super Cool Visual Studio Color Schemes and Fonts
  20. Deep Zoom: Creating Working Application in Less than 5 Minutes Using the New Deep Zoom Composer
  21. .NET Debugging Tricks: Formatting Class Appearance in the VS Watch Window
  22. Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines: Designing controls, text style and tone, placement and many more
  23. We're Hiring - Part 3 (Revolutions)
  24. Image Effects with Silverlight: Creating the Saturation Light Sample
  25. Setting Cookies in Silverlight
  26. Binding Animation To and From Properties
  27. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Links to SDK Help, Reference and Samples
  28. Calling Web Services and Accessing UI from Timer Event in Silverlight
  29. Visual Studio 2008 Walkthrough: Creating, Hosting and Using WCF Services with Silverlight 2
  30. Configuring IIS 7 to work with WCF Web Services for Silverlight 2
  31. We're Hiring Reloaded!
  32. We're Hiring!
  33. WPF Application Quality Guide v0.1 Released

2007 4

  1. Visual Studio 2008 is Out!
  2. Optimizing WPF 3D scenes for Tier-2 Hardware (roughly Pixel Shader 2.0+)
  3. Converting RTF on the Clipboard To XAML
  4. RichTextBox Tips

2006 2

  1. Blobbying #1 - Introducing Blob the Builder
  2. XAML Load support in Cider May CTP Release. Sample app.