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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...
One of the more interesting topics that arise in Data-binding is that of Data Conversion. So much can be accomplished without explicit conversion that it is easy to overlook… until you hit the real world. To see this, I'll make a small modification to...
Today we wrap up dependency properties by talking about one of the most important, though typically invisible aspects: DP precedence order. This is critical because dependency properties, by their nature, are designed to have their final value set from...
First, a hearty thank you to " obsid " who wrote a great comment noting that by using reflector you can find that the documentation is not yet updated and System.Windows.PropertyMetadata's constructor is overloaded. While I am a fan of writing...
On the 17th I began a discussion of Dependency Properties, but as I said then, there is more to say. This central concept to Silverlight Programming has traditionally been taught as an advanced concept.(Can we have traditions in a product...
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...