Thanks to all who pointed out that our videos had been taken offline - the lovely people at Microsoft used to host them for free but with the advent of Azure have removed that capability. Luckily... SeekDotNet to the rescue - they're quite happy for the videos to be hosted alongside the rest of the content. So, in short, they're back!
Happy Vixing!
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Colour Schemes Editor in Silverlight
At a complete tangent to our normal ramblings, we've just added a tool for editing colour schemes to the Vixer website
It's not terribly relevant to most Vixering but everything else aside it's quite good fun, and it's built in Silverlight so it's very snappy to use. If you're in the business of changing colours in CSS, HTML or XAML files, or anything where colours are stored in text as their hexadecimal representation (e.g. "#ff00ff00" for opaque green), it's a breeze to use.
We got a bit sick of looking at CSS files full of colour representations and not being sure what colour they represented - it's fine if your favourite web site editor will read the files but stray slightly from the path and you're on your own, hence putting the effort into this tool.
We've also encountered quite a lot of XAML that originally came from the fabulous Expression Blend - if you're just interested in editing the colours in a gradient for example this is quicker than sucking your project into Blend, and it's especially relevant if you don't have access to the the full project, or if someone's hacked the Blend-friendliness out of the XAML.
If you'd be interested in getting your hands on the Silverlight source code for the colour picker (or "color picker" as they call it over The Water) or the schemes editor, or indeed any of it, drop us a line via the website, or here - if there's sufficient interest we'll put it up on CodeProject or CodePlex for all the world to modify.
The tool's out on http://www.vixer.co.uk/schemes.aspx - let us know if you like it, or indeed otherwise!
It's not terribly relevant to most Vixering but everything else aside it's quite good fun, and it's built in Silverlight so it's very snappy to use. If you're in the business of changing colours in CSS, HTML or XAML files, or anything where colours are stored in text as their hexadecimal representation (e.g. "#ff00ff00" for opaque green), it's a breeze to use.
We got a bit sick of looking at CSS files full of colour representations and not being sure what colour they represented - it's fine if your favourite web site editor will read the files but stray slightly from the path and you're on your own, hence putting the effort into this tool.
We've also encountered quite a lot of XAML that originally came from the fabulous Expression Blend - if you're just interested in editing the colours in a gradient for example this is quicker than sucking your project into Blend, and it's especially relevant if you don't have access to the the full project, or if someone's hacked the Blend-friendliness out of the XAML.
If you'd be interested in getting your hands on the Silverlight source code for the colour picker (or "color picker" as they call it over The Water) or the schemes editor, or indeed any of it, drop us a line via the website, or here - if there's sufficient interest we'll put it up on CodeProject or CodePlex for all the world to modify.
The tool's out on http://www.vixer.co.uk/schemes.aspx - let us know if you like it, or indeed otherwise!
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