I’ve, as you maybe know, been working on a Silverlight flickr viewer for my fiancées blog. And now that I have finally got it all done, blogged about it and so on, it was time to actually implement it on her blog. So I took the code from my blog posts and built my services and view models, but tore out the entire view layer and replaced it with a somewhat prettier thing. It has a thumbnail view that is visible in her blog posts. It looks as small Polaroid photos scattered on her page. And then when you click one of them, it changes to a full screen view and shows a larger Polaroid picture with the pictures description an handwriting.
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I ran in to an interesting little feature in Silverlight 2b2 the other day. I was trying out a little idea I had. What would happen if I placed a Silverlight application with a width and height of 100% inside a DIV and then tried resizing the DIV using the HTML DOM bridge...? Well, I created a simple Silverlight application, which was basically a big button, and in the Click event I used the JavaScript bridge to resize the DIV dynamically. Worked like a charm. The DIV resized and the application followed along, just like I wanted. Until I started tweaking...
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