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A Few Good Metadata Options for Silverlight 9 May 2010 | 06:59 pm
I’d like to highlight one more feature that is available in Silverlight if you use my code snippets. Those who watched the value coercion video might have glimpsed the following enum within the Frame...
Value Coercion for the Masses 6 May 2010 | 02:48 pm
My latest snippets package adds value coercion support to Silverlight dependency properties. The mechanism for coercing values is identical to the CoerceValueCallback approach used in WPF. What is va...
Updated Code Snippets for WPF and Silverlight 1 May 2010 | 09:29 am
I originally posted my Visual Studio WPF code snippets back in November of 2007. At that time, I was actually on the road delivering training for Silverlight 1.0. My co-instructor observed me using th...
Time to Update Your Theme Files 14 Apr 2010 | 10:23 am
In ‘L’ is for Lookless, I introduce WPF’s lookless control model and examine what it means to style and template a control in WPF. I also talk about the importance of keeping the default Windows the...
Render Transforms and Focus Visuals 30 Jan 2010 | 02:22 pm
While cleaning out my inbox, I came across a few old emails that I missed during a recent crunchtime. I think one question merits a public (albeit rather late) reply, as I’ve seen it crop up in other ...
Greetings from the Cloud! 18 Aug 2009 | 04:40 am
I have completed the initial migration of this blog to my new host, RackspaceCloud. If you’re able to read this, then I was (at least partially) successful! Most URLs should be the same, although I’...
The Great Migration Begins! (blog comments are temporarily disabled) 15 Aug 2009 | 12:29 pm
I’ve begun the rather tedious task of migrating this blog and all referenced web apps to a new web host. The site will continue to be hosted by my old host during the transfer, but I wanted to give f...
ItemsControl: 'N' is for Natural User Interface 6 Aug 2009 | 08:00 am
Okay, this post isn’t really about creating a full blown Natural User Interface (NUI)… I just wanted to jump on the NUI bandwagon while it’s still the cool new thing! This post is actually about suppo...
Sorry about the down time! 30 Jun 2009 | 01:52 pm
Warning: There is nothing technical in this post and definitely nothing about WPF. It is just an explanation and request for web hosting recommendations. If you tried to reach my blog today and rec...
ItemsControl: 'L' is for Lookless (a.k.a., "Styles, Templates, and Triggers… Oh My!") 13 May 2009 | 07:04 am
As we continue our series on ItemsControl, it probably makes sense to take a small detour and look at WPF controls in general. In this post, we will examine how WPF controls get their visual represent...
