Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

I was pretty happy with the threading navigation I had introduced…   Just to double check, I asked my buddy David Platt, author of the absolutely essential Why Software Sucks, to take a look. He was quite gentle in ripping … Continue reading →

I just received a note from a colleague about the “Twitter Influence Calculator.”  Not being able to resist, I immediately put in my name and out popped more statistics than you can shake a stick at… I chopped out the … Continue reading →

I’m not sure it is useful,  but it is one of the more creative approaches to searching I’ve seen. Amaztype takes an entirely different approach to finding things on Amazon.  They start by presenting you with a sparse (beta?) window … Continue reading →

I recently posted about the Silverlight Layout System (and now have posted videos on the subject here and here). But this can get quite confusing and a reader posted this question: You mention PreArrange() and it is called but you … Continue reading →

Interesting social / community approach at tech ed. You fill out your community quick card (here’s mine): and you then fill in a quick survey of your interests and the types of folks (designer, developer, etc.) you are interested in … Continue reading →

I’m very pleased to be able to announce that the videos Creating a Carousel Part 1 and Creating a Carousel Part 2 are now available.  These videos cover the material that is also discussed in my two part blog entry … Continue reading →

In my previous blog entry I described the fundamentals of the Silverlight Layout System (SLS). Today, I’d like to build a simplified version of the custom Carousel control that I create in greater detail in a forthcoming video, and examine … Continue reading →

    I have finished a video, to be posted soon, on how to build a Carousel control. Along the way, I had the opportunity to explore the Silverlight Layout System (SLS) and will describe this fascinating corner of Silverlight … Continue reading →

  I received a question about how to create extension methods in VB. It turns out that the key difference is that the extension must be defined in a Module and not in a class. Thus, building on the code … Continue reading →

    In my previous entry on this topic I demonstrated how you can use Extension methods to add what appear to be new methods to existing classes. In this entry I will demonstrate how Extension methods enhance Linq by … Continue reading →

    A number of articles I’ve read recently have mentioned “Extension methods” in passing, yet it is difficult to find out what this is, if you don’t already know. A few searches, however, did turn up three good sources: … Continue reading →