BESUG event: hands-on workshop + New Year’s drink

On January 15th, BESUG organizes his second event.  This time it will be a hands-on workshop with a New Year’s drink afterwards.

In this workshop, we will build a small Silverlight 2.0 application that shows some nice stuff you can do with Silverlight 2.0 and give some tips & tricks.  You don’t have to be a Silverlight geek for this workshop, but an understanding of C# and XAML is recommended.

This event is totally free of charge and is organized with the cooperation of Multimediacollege and Plugmedia.
Visit http://www.besug.be to register for this event.

Silverlight typewriter

You can create some nice text animations with Silverlight 2.0 and with very simple code.  I’ve created a simple typewriter simulator that displays the text character by character.

First, I’ve created a storyboard width a duration of 0.2 seconds and listen to the completed event.  The only other thing that I got in XAML is a <Textblock> element.

In my C# code, I save the text in a variable, clear the textblock and starts the storyboard.  Every time the storyboard is executed, I add a character from the variable to the textblock and starts the storyboard again.

This is a pretty simple example, but you can do very nice stuff with text when using a storyboard as a timer.  Click here to download the sample code.