Author: Mads

Over at Silverlight Games 101 Bill Reiss and some other guys have started or actually, are about to, start af new Silverlight game site similar to Miniclip.com.

The site should go live in March and I’m looking very much forward to this as I guess it will give the Silverlight game community a good place to show of their games and in turn put even more focus on Silverlight as a gaming platform.

The site currently doesn’t have any content and is only a splash screen with their new logo, but be sure to check out the site during March 2009.

Visit silverarcade.com

It’s a common functionallity that you always need. I have done this myself before this way:

if(System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.IsEnabled == true)

It have worked great in my projects, but today I found out that this isn’t the best approach, as it doesn’t always work. I found out when I read this blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/02/26/designerproperties-getisindesignmode-forrealz-how-to-reliably-detect-silverlight-design-mode-in-blend-and-visual-studio.aspx

Go ahead and read it :)

I just read this really well written and interesting document by Nikola Mihaylov.

“Nikola Mihaylov is a Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft, working on the WPF/Silverlight tools for Visual Studio. Nikola’s first Silverlight game topped the http://silverlight.net charts for 2 weeks after its v1.00 release in 2008.”

It gives you a great idea of how to build a Silverlight game, and for the people who have already build games on their own, it’s still good reading. I mean, we all want to learn something new all the time, right?

The document can be found on Nikola’s blogpost here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/archive/2009/02/05/anatomy-of-a-silverlight-game-avoid-common-mistakes-when-building-silverlight-online-games.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

– Enjoy!