Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

        For those of you who want to get started with hypervideo and don’t want to wait for the videos or the full tutorial, here is the first of a series of fast mini-tutorials. The first step … Continue reading →

    Ben wrote that he hopes I will dive deep into decoupling the type or name of the markers from the data-driven information, and I want to respond that this is an important part of decoupling the link from … Continue reading →

I was working on a chapter about the Application Model for our forthcoming book and reviewed the examples on passing parameters into Silverlight applications. I thought, "Hey! That would make a great video!"  And it does, but Tim already made … Continue reading →

When we started creating How Do I videos, the idea was to have stand alone videos that do not depend on one another. That is still the ideal, though from time to time we do have two or three part … Continue reading →

  In this follow up to yesterday’s blog post about the Bubbles Chart available from the December Release of the Silverlight Toolkit, I’d like to explore the unique advantages the bubbles chart provides for finding outliers in many real world … Continue reading →

  This is the first of a mutli-part entry on the Bubble Chart from the Silverlight Toolkit.  I became interested in this chart when I was working on my soon-to-be-released videos on the PieChart and the Column Charts, which share … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce that my Sparkling Client interview on Animation is now posted. In honor of that interview, I’ve created a button with in-state animation that will take you to the podcast, presented here through Silverlight Streaming, and analyzed, … Continue reading →

This entry updated after a night’s sleep and the return of my cerebral cortex. In one of my earlier entries you’ll find something approximating this bit of nonsense… public string DoSort(List<string> words){ List<string> temp = words.Sort(); // No, but thanks … Continue reading →

I’m very pleased to say that my first two Silverlight Toolkit videos are now available. The first is a gentle introduction to the Silverlight Toolkit, how to get it, what it’s for, how to set it up, and so forth. … Continue reading →

I eagerly agreed to create two videos each week reviewing the Silverlight Toolkit controls. My goal was to provide dead-simple examples both in my blog and in the videos so that anyone can come along and see how to use … Continue reading →