Recently, I have been “imbued” with the idea of creating custom effects in Silverlight 3 beta / WPF. As an exercise, I decided to make a Jinn effect on Silverlight. The Genie Effect is a collapsing window effect on Mac OS:
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For the correct operation of the demo you will need ... Silverlight 3 beta - on the right there is a link to install the required runtime. So, this is what came out of this: demo (squeeze the green square-lamp, click Help).
For those who are interested in learning how to create their own effects, and what exactly is behind Genie, I wrote this post.