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

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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 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) 1 year, 10 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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2009 Silverlight Control Builder Contest is Live!(gosilverlight.org)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 2 years, 6 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) 2 years, 10 months 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) 2 years, 10 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, 1 month 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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Building a Resizable Silverlight Control(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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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Sharing Code Between .NET and Silverlight Platforms(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 4 months ago

Quite often, I hear people asking if they can use .NET assemblies compiled for the full .NET runtime in Silverlight. Unfortunately, this just isn’t possible, the Silverlight runtime is a subset of the full .NET runtime and for code to run correctly under the Silverlight runtime, there are various dependencies that must be linked and verified at compile time. But (there is always a but), there is one technique that you can use that effectively allows you to write your code once and have it work in both Silverlight and regular .NET applications. read more...

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Microsoft Introduces the Silverlight/WPF Controls Team(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 4 months ago

Shortly after MIX07, ScottGu brought up an idea of building a larger team focused on building controls. We kicked this idea around for while as we talked about details, timelines, and goals. In April, most of these details were worked out and we hashed out a charter and some early areas of focus and deliverables. read more...

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Introducing Silverlight Contrib(pagebrooks.com)

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

I've just started a new project on CodePlex called Silverlight Contrib. The aim of this project is to offer the most comprehensive collection of free and open source Silverlight controls. The first drop is very small, but with support from the community, I hope to grow this collection into a full suite of controls that you can incorporate into your solutions. read more...

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