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Keyboard Input Tricks for Silverlight 2
Jon Galloway discusses the challenges and solutions to handling keyboard input in Silverlight including:
  • Silverlight not firing the KeyDown event for cursor (arrow) keys
  • The difference between Key and PlatformKey
  • The missing Key Enumeration
  • How to create a keyboard handler event
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    Part 3: Creating Fading Controls with Microsoft Expression Design and Expression Blend 2
    In part three of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney continues to walks us through the process of creating fading controls. This part looks at how to create a fade in on the timeline. The process is the same for the fade out which normally happens at the end of a timeline. 
    December 28, 2007  
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    Creating Fading Controls with Microsoft Expression Design and Expression Blend 2
  • Step 1: Crating a XAML Asset
  • Step 2: Adding Timelines
  • Step 3: Adding Fades
  • Step 4: Adding Events
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