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A few of my Silverlight articles were published on the SilverlightShow site this past two months. The first one is an introduction to Silverlight/(WPF)/Blend behaviors, where I create a Silverlight Halloween Sound Player without writing a single line...
I’m observing this really irritating trend with new software lately… I followed up on a couple of tweets today to try the new Silverlight application everyone was RT’ing of. Clicked on the link and the loading animation began. Seconds later, it… stopped...
In my post -NTK09 conference blog post I mentioned one of my MVVM demos was about sharing a ViewModel between WPF , Silverlight and even Windows Forms application. I got a lot of requests for posting sample code online since then, which I intended to...
Windows 7 launch day was fun. I gave a talk on Expression tools (and related) – here’s the PowerPoint slide deck for those who asked for it: I used Expression Blend 3 to build a photo viewer application, which I’ll blog about later; key points here were...
When taking about data validation in applications, I usually describe the validation as the five-stage process or, put differently, five lines of defense against invalid data. In this post, I’ll write about the first line of defense – preventing the user...
I’ve just started discovering Prism , mainly as a tool to help me use the MVVM with my apps. That said, by now, Prism proved itself with: Support for Commanding EventAggregator Unity integration Targeting both WPF and Silverlight EventAggregator is great...
Had 2 talks at this year’s NT Konferenca . The first one was about building LOB application with Silverlight, starting from what can we do today with v2 (run a short, 2 min video of a Silverlight 2 LOB app we’re going to be releasing within few weeks...
Behaviors are not new in WPF / Silverlight world; it’s a common way of extending visual element’s behavior through the power of attached properties and everybody probably used one of these at least once in their projects. Now, there’s new Behaviors in...
I’ve seen numerous questions regarding data binding to Enums, together with many solutions on how to do it, but the question I’m asking myself is – do I really want to bind anything to an Enum? I like to think about Enums purely as a coding aid – to help...
For a WPF developer, crossing over to Silverlight development can be a pretty mindboggling adventure. I mean - if you’re currently engaged with Windows Forms or ASP.NET and seeking new advancements, Silverlight would (should?) be a logical step forward...
Realizing that i don’t have any decent photo slideshow player installed on my machine I thought I’d install photoSuru and see what it can do for me. While it’s a beautiful subscription-based WPF photo viewer, built on a Syndicated Client Experiences Read...
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...
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...
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...
Besides improving application startup time, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also allows developers to add a splash screen to WPF applications. The splash screen is shown using native code, even before WPF application starts to load. In reality this means the splash...
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