Archive for Flash

  • Silverlight and XAML

    XAML is a key part of Silverlight development – it allows you to declaratively define your user interface and it makes it easy for tools such as Visual Studio and Expression Blend to share that UI definition. In this video we take a look at some of the key features of XAML that you’ll encounter ...

  • New Higher Envato Marketplace Rates!

    For four years the Envato Marketplaces have helped authors around the world earn an income selling their digital wares. Along the way we’ve grown from one marketplace to seven, with more on the way. We’ve gone from hundreds of members to hundreds of thousands. Items from our marketplace...

  • Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day One

    There’s been a sense of confusion in our industry lately. Standards are changing and there is a lot of discussion about where Flash fits in the future of the web. As a kind of therapy I decided to check out the FITC San Francisco and so far, I’ve found exactly what I was looking for.. I...

  • Beginner’s Guide to Augmented Reality Part 2

    Welcome to Part 2 of my Beginner’s Guide to Augmented Reality, I hope you finished off the first part of this tutorial, or at least downloaded and read the source files (otherwise you may get a bit confused with what’s going on). Quick Recap Last time we looked at setting up a simple A...

  • Flash for Android: Flixel Frogger on Nexus One and HTC Evo

    In this screencast I show off how Frogger, which I built using Flixel, runs on a Nexus One with Android 2.2 and a HTC EVO running 2.1. Both play the same but the EVO feels more responsive due to the better touch response and larger screen. Screencast: Frogger Don’t like ads? Download the s...

  • MovieClip Reconstruction with the SharedObject Class

    During this tutorial, we will learn how to implement the SharedObject class. We’ll store all the essential data of a MovieClip locally, then reload it next time the application is opened! We found this awesome author thanks to FlashGameLicense.com, the place to buy and sell Flash games. Thank...

  • Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value

    Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of value for only $20. The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Un...

  • Support Activetuts+ and Tuts+ Premium!

    The Tuts+ Network publishes around 50 tutorials and articles every week and part of the reason we’re able do so lies with our Premium Membership service. If you haven’t yet heard, for $9 per month, you gain access to exclusive premium tutorials, screencasts, and freebies from Nettuts+, P...

  • Packaging Silverlight Applications

    Silverlight applications are simple in that there’s an HTML page that launches the plug-in and a packaging file format (XAP) for the code and resources themselves. Here, we take a quick look at how those applications are packaged and how we go from HTML page to running Silverlight code on the scre...

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