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• AutoCompleteBox control / Worker Threads

  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... Posted Nov 03 2008, 04:14 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Tools, user interface, Digging Deeper, Control Toolkit, Threading

• Toolkit release & Themes

  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 what was previously named the Silverlight Control Pack in the press release when... Posted Oct 28 2008, 02:33 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, user interface, Blend For Programmers, Themes

• Sizing in Silverlight – Pixels and Stars

  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... Posted Oct 21 2008, 06:45 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, user interface

• Something New Coming – Pocket MFA

  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... Posted Oct 16 2008, 10:15 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: user interface, Recommended Resources, Blend For Programmers, Community, Building Apps, Pocket MFA

• Tag Property – The Diplomatic Pouch of Silverlight

  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 from FrameworkElement and thus... Posted Oct 06 2008, 01:51 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, user interface, Digging Deeper, Building Apps, Tags

• Dependency Properties - Precedence

  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... Posted Oct 02 2008, 01:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, user interface, Digging Deeper, Custom Controls, Dependency Properties, RC0

• The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

  Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit... Posted Dec 07 2007, 08:26 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, Design, XAML, blend, whitepaper, workflow, user interface