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A Better Multi-Page Solution
I've posted on multi-page Silverlight applications, and in fact have two videos ( here and here ) that show an approach that works quite well and that I was happy to steal at the time. I recently received email from Lucas Stark (Senior Web Developer at...
Silverlight Related Skills – Post 2
Yesterday , I wrote the first of a series of posts on skills related to effective Silverlight programming; specifically an introduction to LINQ. Today, with that material fresh, I'd like to take a giant leap forward and consider a number of advanced techniques...
Obtaining and Caching a Lot of Words
It is surprising how often I wish I had a lot of words handy.  This week it has been because I've wanted to play with the AutoCompleteBox (you just set the list of words as the ItemSource for the control and voila! In previous posts I demonstrated...
Using Blend with Visual Studio
For the past six months or so I've been experimenting with and then "preaching" the idea of developing with two tools: Expression Blend for the UI and Visual Studio for the code. This has paid big dividends for me in productivity and it fits in well with...
So Much Technology – So Little Time
We have, I think, officially passed the point where anyone can keep up with the new technology available for developers, just from Microsoft (let alone all the new options from all the other companies), and PDC is les than a week away. A totally indefensible...
Tag Property – The Diplomatic Pouch of Silverlight
[updated 18:22 Eastern (utc-5) Oct 6.] I received feedback from a few sources recently expressing confusion about the Tag property, which resides in the class FrameworkElement. Notice, first that Control (the base for all visible controls) derives directly...
Dependency Properties – Background for Custom Controls
In  a previous post I began talking about Custom Controls, and I will continue that discussion over the next few days and weeks even as I start producing videos on the topic. It turns out that the more you look at Custom Controls, the deeper you...
A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images
In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom temlpated button. A third, and excellent...
Page Switching With Parameters (the short version)
  I recently finished Part 2 of Page Switching in which I demonstrate how to pass parameters between Silverlight pages (this video is in production and should be available soon.) A reader asked if I could provide the essential information, so here...