Monthly Archives: September 2008

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 … Continue reading →

  Tim Heuer did an excellent video on IsolatedStoarge, but I'd like to quickly review the the fundamentals as they are quite a bit simpler than many fear.  The idea of IsolatedStorage is to provide your Silverlight Application with access … Continue reading →

  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 used this powerful … Continue reading →

This is the first in a series of explorations of breaking changes in the Release Candidate for Silverlight 2.  Please be sure to read Tim's blog entry about Silverlight RC0 for context and directions. Summary There are 2 significant breaking … Continue reading →

On Thursday night we published the first public release candidate for Silverlight 2, described in some detail by Scott Guthrie.  This is a developer-only release and you can learn all about what it is and how to get it in … Continue reading →

    I'm pleased to announce that the first of my monthly Sparkling Client podcasts has been posted. This month, we take a Tour of Silverlight Templates. Resources Additional resources to supplement this topic include Tutorial on Templates Styles Video, … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal Again, thank you for taking the time to respond to the survey, it was extremely helpful to me in … Continue reading →

Thank you for an unprecedented response to this week's survey on what topics are most important to you. I will keep the survey open, but I will attempt to compile and report on the results by tomorrow morning. Your feedback … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

    At the suggestion of a reader, I've created a survey to find out what topics are most important to you. It won't be 100% scientific, and of course I can't guarantee instant responsiveness, but I really am interested … Continue reading →

I received a public flame recently that I've become complacent in this job and am not doing the hard work of meeting the needs of those who want to go beyond the basics.  While it is tempting to talk about … Continue reading →