C#

C#

Creating Reusable Animations in Silverlight 2

I answered a post on the Silverlight forums recently about creating reusable animations for an Image, and thought that it was worth a blog entry to expand on it a little. I am looking here at two common approaches to creating reusable animations within a single project: Create the animation in xaml (using Blend) on one element and then change the target in code.  This is easier to do but means you can only play one animation at a time (because only one animation actually exists) ...

VB.Net and C# to draw closer together for v4

There are some interesting improvements for C# 4 as detailed here, but I was struck by the following comment in that document. A secondary theme is co-evolution with Visual Basic. Going forward we will aim to maintain the individual character of each language, but at the same time important new features should be introduced in both languages at the same time. They should be differentiated more by style and feel than by feature set. I think this will be a surprise for many vb programmers who have seen a gradual move away from their...