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Quick Silverlight tip: Why my ActualWidth and ActualHeight equal 0?
If you’ll try to use ActualWidth and ActualHight of controls with explicitly set Width and Height, you’ll not see any problem, however, if your control sits inside other control, ActualWidth and ActualHeight properties will be equal to 0. Why this and...
How to handle thickness
Yesterday, we spoke about type converters . We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we’ll create more complicated converter, that very missing in Silverlight – ThicknessConverter. During the post, I also explain about tokenizing values in...
Work process: How to use and build type converters
Today, I want to start new tag - “ Work process ”. Here I’m going to publish partial classes, fixes, small utilities, I’m building for myself or clients to help in work process. I’ll give an example : currently, I’m working on BiDi support for Silverlight...
Silverlight Visual Tree Investigation
Wait a moment. Silverlight has Visual and Logical Trees as well as WPF? Not exactly. The design more similar to how it was in WinForms (Parent-Child relationship). But dev team made all possible to make it syntactically similar to WPF. Let’s start Challenge...
Quick Silverlight Tip: How to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and Silverlight managed objects from HTML?
After my session yesterday , I got number of email from people, who have a problem to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and vice verse. I want to answer to all of you by this post. Access HTML from Silverlight You have not do anything special in Silverlight...
Printouts of the slides, presented on Silverlight 2.0 open house today
Thank you all, who participated today in Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications event . I uploaded printouts of the slides, presented during the session here. So, you can download it for reference. I’m really interesting within your feedback...
Please do not ask me. We cannot handle more…
Monday next week, I’ll making half day session about building rich internet applications with Silverlight 2.0 in ILDC. The registration is over a while ago , but during this week, I got very large amount of email, IMs and phones calls with appeal to attend...
Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications (local event)
If you are developing rich internet applications, web sites or just want to learn what’s new in Silverlight 2.0 , you are invited to attend  local (Israel) Microsoft Event 30-June 8:30 AM- 12:30 PM in ILDC (new Microsoft R&D offices in Herzliya...
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