Category Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Async Data Validation
This is the sixth posting in a series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] In this posting I’ll extend the data validation mechanism we’ve been examining to support asynchronous data validation (allowing for … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Mini-Tutorial, Styles and Templates, Tools and Utilities
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Data Validation And Templating in Silverlight 4
This is the fifth in a series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] In this and the next posting I will create an application that will demonstrate how to modify the Visual State for … Continue reading
Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged Data, Mini-Tutorial, VSM
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Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Q&A
In the comments from this morning’s post, Andrew raised two questions important enough that I wanted to answer them in a post, rather than in comments…. [In the original version of the posting] you had some code showing that you … Continue reading
Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Reposted
Many programmers come to Silverlight with little prior experience with C#, and thus conceptualize events as a response to an action that is “hooked up” using somewhat arbitrary syntax. All of that is fine, until it isn’t, and so this … Continue reading
Posted in Languages, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
Tagged C#, Mini-Tutorial
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Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates
This is the fourth in a short series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] You will remember that in the previous post in this small series, we created a new button template with a … Continue reading
Templates, Visual State and Fun With Controls
This is the third (if you count Sunday’s update!) in my short series on Templates and Data Validation. [ First In Series. Previous In Series ] Today we’re going to create a templated Button that changes the appearance and visual … Continue reading
Styles (followup)
Yesterday’s post did not include source, and left fleshing out the styles as an exercise… this quick follow-up will provide a link to the full code and a quick walkthrough of the styles I ended up creating.
Posted in Blend, Mini-Tutorial, Tools and Utilities, z Silverlight Archives
Tagged Blend, VSM
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Visual State Manager A-Z
This is the first of a multipart series on the Visual State Manager which will cover Styles Resources Templates Custom Controls Customizing data validation
Posted in Blend, Mini-Tutorial, Tools and Utilities, z Silverlight Archives
Tagged Blend, VSM
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Silverlight As A Transmedia Platform
The advent of Windows Phone 7 is particularly exciting to current Silverlight programmers, because Silverlight (along with .xna) is the development platform for the new phone. I recently recorded two Silverlight TV episodes, and in one I created a typical … Continue reading
Posted in HyperVideo Player, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Patterns, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Windows Phone 7: Lists, Page Animation and oData
This is the fourth in a fast paced series on programming Windows Phone 7. In this mini-tutorial I will demonstrate how absurdly easy it is to create a master page with a list of data, and a details page to … Continue reading
You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer
John Papa invited me on to Silverlight TV to discuss a key premise of WP7: Silverlight Programmers are instant WP7 programmers. To demonstrate this, I created two applications side by side: a traditional Silverlight (Web) application and a WP7 application … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers
This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 Programming for Silverlight Programmers.