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I recently began a discussion of the Silverlight Toolkit and on the way towards explaining the AutoCompleteBox I became distracted by creating a list of words to use as our datasource. I've actually reworked that example, slightly to build the list using...
Virtually all measurements (width, height, etc.) are measured in Pixels in Silverlight… except when they're not. Pixels When you are creating a shape or setting a margin, or filing in the width or height of a control the implicit unit is pixel...
My theory, based entirely on my own experience is that many developers would like to know just a bit more about design (not all developers, and not a lot more, just some developers, and just a bit more). Our reasons include: 1. The bar has been set higher...
[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...
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...