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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...
Today at Microsoft PDC , Scott Guthrie demonstrated some of the new controls that have been provided as a part of the Silverlight Toolkit . The Silverlight Toolkit was previously named the Silverlight Control Pack This toolkit provides a set of...
[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...
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...
Creating a Quick and Dirty App in Silverlight There comes a point, usually within 3-6 months after I commit to a new technology, when it becomes my platform of choice for throwing together quick applications… when I just find it easier to think in terms...
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...