Building a Radar Control in Silverlight - Part 2(www.pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 1 year, 3 months ago

Part 2 in a series of posts documenting the construction of a Silverlight Radar control. In this post, we enhance the Radar control by adding blips to the Radar screen. read more...

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Clipping to Bounds with Geometries and Attached Behaviors(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 1 year, 4 months ago

Learn how to use Attached Behaviors to build dynamic clipping geometries in your Silverlight applications. read more...

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Custom Splash Screen for Windows Phone(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 2 years, 2 months ago

The WP7 platform has native support for static splash screens. In the following post, I’ll show you how just how easy it is... read more...

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Value Converter and Command Relays for Visual Logic(orktane.com)

submitted by orktane(300) 2 years, 9 months ago

If you've done any time of development with MVVM, one of the things you'll hate most is creating Value Converters and Commands for the smallest of things - especially for things like formatting, placement, visibility etc. And a lot of the times, these converters and commands are pertinent only to the View itself, but have to be declared on a module-wide basis. So as a solution, I've created "relays" for IValueConverter and ICommand implementations, which allow the logic to be defined in the code-behind or ViewModel if you prefer, without having to create extraneous/individual classes. read more...

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2009 Silverlight Control Builder Contest is Live!(gosilverlight.org)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 2 years, 10 months ago

Now that Silverlight 3 is out, we want you to build a control. What kind of control, you ask? It can be anything! Build something that is useful or just plain cool. Silverlight is a powerful platform, we want to see what you can do with it! read more...

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Easy Drop Shadows on Text in Silverlight 3(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 1 month ago

Before Silverlight 3, you had to do perform some less-than-ideal tricks to achieve a drop shadow effect on your text. In fact, the most decent trick I could find had to rely on the TextBox control and not the TextBlock control since you cannot re-template a TextBlock control. But even that technique was not optimal since you couldn’t get a truly smooth shadow. read more...

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Silverlight Contrib to Merge with Silverlight Extensions(silverlightcontrib.org)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 2 months ago

Today, we are excited to announce that the popular Silverlight Contrib and Silverlight Extensions projects will be merging into a single project! We think this move will greatly benefit the Silverlight developer community. Combining the two projects will provide a centralized location for developers looking to contribute controls to the community as well as those seeking to find controls for use in their own applications. read more...

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Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 - Alpha 3 Available!(silverlightcontrib.org)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 5 months ago

Silverlight Contrib Alpha 3 has been released! This release builds upon the Alpha 2 release with minor enhancements in many areas. read more...

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Netflix to Lay Off 50. Blames Silverlight.(money.cnn.com)

submitted by abstractcoder(100) 3 years, 5 months ago

In a corporate blog post today, Netflix (NFLX) said 50 of its technical specialists in its customer service group will be let go at the start of next year. The reason? The company isn’t blaming the economy, it’s blaming Microsoft’s (MSFT) Silverlight read more...

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Building a Resizable Silverlight Control(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 5 months ago

When building a Silverlight control, in some situations, you need the visual elements of the control to scale according to the size of the control. Sometimes, this is easy because you can simply leave the height and width dimensions unspecified for the visual elements and they will fill to consume the available space in the parent container. But in more complex situations, you need to be able to specify the dimensions of the visual elements in your control. read more...

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Using ReSharper with Silverlight(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 5 months ago

If you have ever used Resharper, you may know that it has a great feature called Templates. Templates give you the ability to quickly generate code that you would generally need to write by hand. I've built 4 templates that you can use in your Silverlight endeavors. read more...

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Tweaking OnApplyTemplate Event Timing in Silverlight 2(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 5 months ago

When building a custom control in Silverlight 2, the OnApplyTemplate method gives you the opportunity to “wire-up” logical instances of elements in your control. When a control is loaded, it is important to realize that in Silverlight 2, this method is not triggered very early with respect to other events. In other words, you could very easily write code that fails just because of where you call it. Understanding the control’s life cycle will help in avoiding these situations. read more...

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Silverlight Unit Test Framework source code released(jeff.wilcox.name)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 6 months ago

A week ago, we gave the world the first release of the Silverlight Toolkit. Shawn Burke told you that we’re agile, and that we have a neat release model. The fun continues! Today, the source code to the Silverlight Unit Test Framework is available with the same open source license. It is checked in to the source control for the toolkit on CodePlex. read more...

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Silverlight Toolkit Released on CodePlex!(codeplex.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 6 months ago

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input. read more...

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Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 - Alpha 2 Released!(silverlightcontrib.org)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 7 months ago

I'm happy to announce the Alpha 2 release of Silverlight Contrib! If you have been following the project on CodePlex, you know that a lot has changed in the past few weeks. The team has grown to 6 members and we have added quite a few new features (including Silverlight 2 RTW Compatibility). Additionally, we have created a web site (SilverlightContrib.org) which contains live demonstrations of many features in Silverlight Contrib as well as an RSS feed for keeping up with announcements. read more...

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Minrosoft: Silverlight 2 is Live(microsoft.com)

submitted by wisemx(8074) 3 years, 7 months ago

Redmond, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences. read more...

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