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OpenType Text in Silverlight 5

By Pete Brown|10 minutes|December 8, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
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Silverlight 5 provides excellent support for rendering OpenType fonts. Starting with this version, you can use advanced open type features such as ligatures, stylistic sets and contextual alternates. In this video, Pete shows how to use thes OpenType features in Silverlight 5.
Pete Brown

By Pete Brown, Pete Brown is the lead of the Developer Guidance Community Team at Microsoft, and focuses on XAML, WPF, Silverlight, .NET Micro Framework, .NET Gadgeteer and other "code on the client" and "code on a device" technologies. His blog is at 10rem.net and he may be found constantly on twitter at @pete_brown. Oh, and he adores his C64.

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