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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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    Keyboard Input Tricks for Silverlight 2.0
    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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    • Team RIA Development
    In Adam Flater's Flex blog, he suggests for teams getting started with RIAs that they:
  • Use Source Control
  • Create an easy designer/developer workflow
  • Select a micro-architecture, patterns and frameworks that work for your group
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    • Silverlight tip: resizing all objects in a canvas when the canvas resizes
    Liquidboy writes in his blog: "Using a ScaleTransform on the canvas will scale all of it's children by the same proportion!"
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    Resizing assets in Expression Blend
    Justin Whitney writes "hold down the Shift key while you drag the corner points of an asset in Expression Blend for proportional resizing."
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    Embedding fonts from a Flash swf file into a Flex application
    Flexexamples.com has an example to show you how to "embed a font from a Flash SWF into a Flex application using either @font-face in a <mx:Style /> block, or using the [Embed] metadata."
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    Correcting problems with masks and scalable Flash in Flex
    Franto writes in his FlexTips blog "when you have content which is masked and you allow scale for your application, the mask will not scale if it is not added to the display list. If you have this problem, add you mask to your display list (addChild)."
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