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Programming for Windows 7
Well, Windows 7 is going to be released by the end of next year. This is great news, because it seemed, that Microsoft finally understand how to get the best of Windows Vista and make it to work not only on monster machines . It even works on new brandy...
Posted 09 November 2008 12:12 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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Slides and desks from my Expert Days’ sessions
Because of the new job , I’m bit tight in time, however, I  found a time to post slides from my sessions in Expert Days . Also, hand-on labs used for WPF beginners’  released as open source to CodePlex for your convenience. Windows Presentation...
Posted 22 August 2008 11:43 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 08 July 2008 10:07 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 07 July 2008 08:58 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 07 July 2008 07:44 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 01 July 2008 12:56 PM by tamirk | 2 comment(s)
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How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?
The challenge today is really simple. All we have to do is to write Silverlight   Vista Sidebar Gadget , that consumes either WCF , ASMX or REST based service. Really simple, isn’t it? Let’s start Build server side services We should start from services...
Posted 23 June 2008 09:37 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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UserControl binding to own property bug in Sliverlight 2.0 beta 2
Today morning, I come to my office. Alex , sitting there, was very tired. His eyes were red. I asked him: “What’s going on?” and he responsed: “I think, I’m sick. Something is broken in Silverlight”. “What’s the problem?” – I asked. And he explained me...
Posted 16 June 2008 09:18 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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Quick Silverlight tip: How to open new window or tab by using HyperlinkButton and Ctrl-Shift modifiers
Regular behavior of any HTML anchor element is to open new Window if you’re clicking the link with Shift key and new Tab, if you’re clicking with Ctrl key or middle mouse button. Unfortunately, Silverlight HyperlinkButton does not support opening new...
Posted 26 May 2008 10:07 AM by tamirk | 1 comment(s)
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