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Beta 2 includes a wealth of new controls including the Popup (that is new, right? It’s not that I just didn’t notice it before?). I received an email today asking if I’d do a short How Do I video on creating a Popup and I certainly will, but here is a...
I received an email from Ian Griffiths who informed me that the "Xaml spec refers to Xaml as Xaml , and not XAML ." because Rob Relyea didn't like the "shouty caps" look of all upper case. After some back and forth, I contacted...
By default, linear gradients are on a diagonal. Understanding this begins with the implicit assumption of a coordinate system superimposed on every shape in which the upper-left hand corner is set to 0,0, with the x axis extending to 1 at the right edge...
There are two common idioms for creating events (and wiring up their handlers) for XAML objects. One is to place the name of the event and the name of its handler in the XAML itself <Canvas Canvas.Top= "180" Canvas.Left= "200" MouseLeftButtonDown...
In today's Tip of the Day I wrote that Canvas's Height and Width properties default to zero. A reader wrote to me in email saying, Actually, unless it was implemented differently in Silverlight than in WPF (which I cannot exclude), the default...