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If you followed me on Twitter you’d know about my latest little “ problem ”. I decided not to wait another month for my New Year’s resolutions, but start losing that extra weight right away. To help me keep my score, I created a little Silverlight app...
I’m sure Telligent will fully enable Silverlight parts into future Community Server releases, but until then, a couple of tricks are needed to make Silverlight play well with CS. The following points were made with Community Server 2008.5 release. Include...
We all knew it was coming. Although not so soon. Now it is here. Silverlight 2. Open your Visual Studio. Grab your trusty mouse. Download the bits . And Light Up the Web! [4MB download 10 seconds install] Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 introduced a lot of new features to support new technologies, adding some cool new designers to developer’s tool belt. On the other hand, support for some technologies was simply left out, leaving a some developers very unhappy. One...
Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics...
As promised , here’s my Live Europe Weather Map in action . This is still just a basic example of displaying icon pushpins on a map, and because I’m using Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control , I don’t need to worry about how map is handled and pushpins...
While next release of WPF (3.5 SP1) won't yet align with Silverlight's " Parts & States Model " by not introducing VisualStateManager into its API, it's good to know that VSM is definitely coming to WPF. Even more, John...
A while ago I built a sample weather map using Atlas [now Microsoft Ajax] and VirtualEarthMap control, which used real-time data to display current weather conditions. VirtualEarthMap control was steadily progressing all this time as a part of a separate...
Following my previous example , this is another experiment with the Label.Target property. Suppose you want to restrict user’s progression with data input on a form by disabling some crucial input fields, which input depends on some other fields on the...
One of probably most underused features in windows desktop UI development world is got to be the use of a Label as an accessor to its pair control. I rarely see developers using this possibility to enhance keyboard UI navigation. A couple of things changed...
In my previous post I've shown how to create a named brush resource in WPF, which can be used and reused through whole application. Although I gave a brush a meaningful name (WindowBackgroundBrush), it can as well be used to paint areas other than...
This is the first post of what I would like to believe will be a series of thoughts on creating a good User Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation. I have no idea where this will take me, but I'll start with a color. You like black? We've...
Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough...
In my previous Silverlight post, I mentioned Silverlight 2.0 API now allows creating animations through code. While this wasn't possible with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha [you would have to create of piece of Xaml, declaring a storyboard with all animations...
When doing code reviews, I often stumble upon a piece of code with some culture-specific information hard-coded in it. One example of this being month names: string [] months = { "January"...
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