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I want to build a nice looking UI with Silverlight, something that keep moving in a delicate manner (like this intro)
I know of course this is possible through the Animation features of Silverlight, but they seem to me a bit too exhausting. I'm looking for some ready-to-use UI animation.
As I recall, jquery offers quite a few UI menus (etc.) that are really easy to use.
I've searched quite a bit for effects library, or tutorials, but I couldn't find anything helpful.
Is my only option is writing Storyboard and build my animations from scratch?
Is that considered OK or I'm just reinventing the wheel here for no reason?
Does it make jquery a better choice for fancy UI web applications? (I've never used it , just read about it)
Storyboards and animations aren't that bad to learn. They are daunting at first (because they can be verbose), but if you just take some time to understand them, they are fairly straight forward. You can try some third party control suites like Telerik which have some animation/transition functions but I'd suggest diving in and understanding how they work.
The best way to try to learn the animations is to think of what you want to do first (something simple) and then just research/figure it out. Googles great for this! Do somethign easy at first of course.
View the sample Silverlight animation browser at microsoft to get started... Sample Animations
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well the title pretty much explains the core of my question.
I have been unable to locate a tutorial/Tutorials for C# and C++ (I would like to find one for C# but C++ would be appreciated as well)
that encourage you to not use an IDE of any type, tutorials that make you learn EVERYTHING the old/hard way.
Im wanting to find tutorials that teach you to use only notepad or something similar, I dont want to depend on drag n drop and i feel like i will be learning so much more on how things work. So with that said does anyone know of such tutorials/books/websites?
I appreciate any assistance on this, Everyone have a great day
Instead of looking for tutorials that explain how to do things without IDE's, you should look for tutorials that explain how to compile from the command line. You can then use notepad (or emacs or VIM or w/e text editor you want) and follow along with the "IDE tutorials." But I agree with most people here, you might as well use an IDE. Most of them don't "hide" things from you that you need to concern yourself with anyways.
Why losing time when today, after years, we have some good IDEs that help us to speed up our dead times?
Anyway if you are going to learn a new programmation language,you must know how it works,indipendently on how ("old style") you reach the result.
Start looking for tutorials that explain how to compile from the command line.
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I am supposed to design an application for a large multitouch screen. By large, i mean newscaster large (around 55 inches and above). The application is an interactive map.
My questions is: which technology to develop the application in. My first idea was to make it in Adobe Flex, but then there is HTML5 too...
There must be some awesome Java library for touch interactions too, but then on Windows platform there must be C# library too?
Could someone please point me in the right direction.
The backend is probably going to be in Java EE.
Is there a specialized touch maps sdk?
Why reinvent the wheel?
Ventuz hands down best touch software I have used and I use it daily. It's specifically for large multi-touch presentations.
If you are looking to build it yourself, you will have a long long way to go. Ventuz is extremely flexible and will let you do anything you'll need to do with touch for the most part.
(And they are based in Germany, like you)
Here are some demos they showed last year at NAB
(source: ventuz.com)
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I know my way around the basics of KnockoutJS, and i can easily make a single page really dynamic... But i am to build a new web application, and i'm looking for advise on how to make making the entire webapplication dynamic where every viewModel and html-template is loaded dynamicly, with no full page requests, but the URL should still indicate what page i am on, eather with a hashtag followed by a path, or something better?
I'm a bit confused:
Is there some framework that plays nice with knockoutJs that helps
achive this?
Can i achive this without worring about KnockoutJS?
Is it just a matter of tweaking the viewModel to dynamicly load and dispose other viewModels
and templates, in a smart way?
What is the best practis, what do i do?
Any pointers, links or tips on this is much appreciated, thanks!
Here is an example, notice how the URL changes, and the new content animates in, how do they do it?
https://www.pokki.com/app/Little-Alchemy
Btw. I use ASP.Net MVC.
There are a few things you are asking for here.
Routing framework
External templates.
There's a simple plugin to help you with the latter: Knockout.js External Template Engine
For the former, there are some routing frameworks available that play nicely with KO. You still generally need to do something with the fetching/creation/disposal of child ViewModels. The routing framework may help you with this, or it may just handle monitoring the events that would normally cause a navigation, and call functions that you supply.
I'd like to see a full drop-in routing framework that allows for more declarative definition of url → ViewModel mapping, but haven't found anything that is truly easy as yet.
The one I have started using is called Path.js, but you still have do do a fair bit of glue code.
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I need to build a simple desktop app, my experience is with vb6 but it's time to move on, so i need some help.
My app is relatively simple, a db table that holds events by date.
The app should display the events on a full screen in the following structure:
first line - todays events, a single event every time, rotating.
second line - the closest events (7 days a head), 5 every time, rotating.
third line - all other events , in ..rotation..
each event will be held in a "box", with constant (by percentage) size..
The problems I anticipate are:
The layout, how can i keep it aesthetic, the line heights, the events boxes? (in vb i used to attach it to the resize event and then calculate the size)
so, please - any tips? ideas?
where to start ?
what should i google?
You first need to decide if you're going to use WPF or WinForms, because everything else follows from that.
Winforms will feel more like VB6, but is not the latest and greatest thing.
WPF will be harder to learn to start with, but then stuff like all your layout resizing will just work, without you needing to write any of that calculating code.
Silverlight is (loosely) a subset of WPF, and if I was starting with no prior knowledge today, I might be inclined to use that.
The Adam Nathan book is excellent for WPF, not sure which book I'd recommend for Silverlight.
The layout, how can i keep it aesthetic, the line heights, the events boxes?
Take a look at the TableLayoutPanel (WinForms).
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Could anyone recommend me a good tutorial about Silverlight animation for a beginner, and I am especially interested in how to read the animation code in XAML (I always feel magic code) and develop my own animation. If the tutorial covers any tools which could facilitate animation code rede and animation development, it will be great!
Thanks in advance,
George
I found to be the best starting point is actually the silverlight.net page.
Silverlight.net / Learning
delivers a lot of quite well made tutorial videos. Animations inclusive! :)
You might want to download the Microsoft Expression Blend trial. Blend makes it easier to develop applications for both WPF and Silverlight. The startup screen contains some examples.
And this site is pretty useful:
http://silverlight.net/quickstarts/
On Microsoft Showcase there are a lot of great video tutorial about Silverlight and Expression Blend.
In your case I would recomend watching Silverlight Fundamentals (Part 7 of 9): Animation.
The Project Rosetta at http://channel9.msdn.com/continuum/tutorials can be helpful
The Project "Rosetta Stone" Tutorials are dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know.