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Text Effect is a very common feature for many online application. Today, I am going to introduce you a simple, but also beautiful, text effect application. It’s time to decorate your application!

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Comparison

Flash implementation: 70 minutes (Implemented First)
Silverlight implementation: 80 minutes
What’s the difference?

• String to ASCII Code: charCodeAt [AS3] vs Convert.ToInt16 [C#]

Source codes

•   Simple Text Effect [Flash 9, AS3] (142.4 KiB, 324 hits)
•   Simple Text Effect [Silverlight 2, C#] (20.6 KiB, 403 hits)

Silverlight

String to ASCII Code: charCodeAt [AS3] vs Convert.ToInt16 [C#]

When you are working with text, you shouldn’t miss out the following following codes which convert a string value and ASCII code.

// AS3
var text:String = "Testing";

// Get the ASCII code for the character "T"
text.charCodeAt(0)

// Get the string value of the ASCII code 80
var char:String = String.fromCharCode(10);

In C#, you can achieve the same result by using the System.Convert Class.

// C#
String text = "Testing";

// Get the ASCII code for the character "T"
Convert.ToInt16(text.ToCharArray()[0]));

// Get the string value of the ASCII code 80
String char = Convert.ToChar(80).ToString();

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