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• Custom Controls – The Dénouement

  Over the past month I've posted half a dozen min-articles about creating custom controls that can interact with the Visual State Manager, and the underlying engine that makes it work; especially Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model . Intro... Posted Oct 09 2008, 09:47 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Templates, Custom Controls, RC0

• Template Browser – an indispensible tool

  One way that many developers like to create styles and templates for controls is to modify the existing styles and templates. An unusual feature of Silverlight is that every control in the toolbox is lookless – its appearance is determined by its own... Posted Oct 03 2008, 12:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Templates, Custom Controls, RC0

• RC0 & ContentPresenter

  The breaking changes document points out that ContentPresenter now derives from FrameworkElement and thus loses 18 public properties  as well as TextAlignment, TextDecorations and TextWrapping. All of this calls for a bit of rewriting if you've... Posted Sep 28 2008, 12:29 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: How Do I Videos, Templates, RC0, Breaking Change

• Creating Custom Controls – A Common Starter Application

  It will be helpful as we explore custom controls to have a common starting project. You may  remember from my posting on the 12th that I laid out a structure with three projects in one solution, with 5 important files. In the ClassLibrary, customcontrol... Posted Sep 21 2008, 08:54 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Templates, Custom Controls

• 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... Posted Sep 17 2008, 09:00 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Templates, Building Apps, Custom Controls, Dependency Properties

• Digging Into Custom Controls

  Last night’s post was something of a preface, but let’s get started. [ For those of you who crave the details, the code, the feel of bits between your fingers, watch for a series of videos on this subject to be released in the next couple weeks with source... Posted Sep 12 2008, 09:17 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Templates, Custom Controls

• 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... Posted Aug 07 2008, 01:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Webcast, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Templates, Multi-page, Building Apps

• Web Cast and Digging Deeper

  Today I had the pleasure of presenting a web cast on building an application with more than one page and passing data among those pages. I have 2 videos on this topic, so if you missed the web cast and are interested, you may find this first video on... Posted Aug 06 2008, 11:25 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Webcast, Digging Deeper, Templates, Multi-page

• In-State Animation In A Nutshell

  I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State... Posted Jul 26 2008, 10:52 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: animation, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Templates

• Templates and Animation Webcast – Follow up

  I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the... Posted Jul 23 2008, 01:42 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Webcast, animation, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, VSM, Templates