January 2009 - Posts
If you like the way how Windows Vista shows your account picture on the Login screen, or how Windows Live Messenger’s display picture looks like on, you have probably already thought about putting something like it in your Silverlight application, either...
In the previous post, we enabled editing for our TreeView. The last operation we need to implement is adding a new item to the hierarchy. With our tree item editor in place, there’s not so much left to do… The only change we need to make with the View...
In the fourth post in this series we’ll get to actually edit an item in the TreeView. First, we have to make our HelpTopic class editable. Well, yes, it is editable now, but we’ll make it even more editable :) by a] implementing the IEditableObject interface...
After the first two introductory posts, we're ready to move into the TreeView control itself. We’ll begin by implementing the easiest of the three update commands (insert/update/delete) – to delete an item in a TreeView. This one actually looks very...
This post is about commanding. In MVVM application context, one way to describe commanding would be to call it a ‘declarative way of connecting Actionable Elements with some A ctions by the means of Commands ’. Right… First things first – what’s an ‘...
This is the first post in a series with a simple, yet specific goal: to add editing capabilities to Silverlight Toolkit ’s TreeView control and build a MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern application with it. This introductory post will deal with really...
This blog has been tagged . Microsoft Tag Reader is available for a range of mobile devices, including iPhone . This is the second (I think) Microsoft app available in the iTunes Store - a way for Microsoft to introduce and promote their latest technologies...
Been playing with a Songsmith a little today. It’s a music generation software, but with additional twist: you’re doing the vocals and Songsmith stands in as your backing band. It’s actually following your singing by choosing the right...
I run English Windows with regional settings set to Slovenian, which means I’m also using a comma (,) for my decimal separator character, not a dot (.), which is mostly used in English-speaking countries. Silverlight sees my configuration as: CultureInfo...
With the latest RC release , Windows Live Writer introduced a couple of new languages for spell checking, including Slovenian. But there’s a catch – you won’t get any of them when you install the English version of Windows Live Essentials (a fancy name...
I broke most of the external referrals to my blog posts when moving to a new blog engine, so why not take this opportunity to change my blog’s address as well? From now on, the official address of this blog is http://tozon.info/blog/ The old address will...