Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

Very proud to say that I will have two presentations at CodeMash 2009 Skinning Silverlight Controls In Silverlight (which I will extend, time allowing to Creating Skinnable Custom Controls and dive into Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model and … Continue reading →

Scott Hanselman, who has the most popular blog in the world, will tell you that if you want to have a popular blog you must never make promises – you’re certain to disappoint. I’m sure he’s right, as I’ve done … Continue reading →

It is surprising how often I wish I had a lot of words handy.  This week it has been because I’ve wanted to play with the AutoCompleteBox (you just set the list of words as the ItemSource for the control … Continue reading →

For the past six months or so I’ve been experimenting with and then “preaching” the idea of developing with two tools: Expression Blend for the UI and Visual Studio for the code.  This has paid big dividends for me in … Continue reading →

  I had a great PDC.  I arrived with a schedule filled with sessions I intended to go to, and (shhhhh!) I skipped them all (except, ScottGu’s keynote and Scott Hanselman’s BabySmash both of which were (predictably) great).  The reason … Continue reading →

In a recent post on theming using the new Themes from the Controls Toolkit I showed that you can add a theme to your Xaml and then add a container as the content of that theme. A powerful alternative is … Continue reading →

  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 previously named the Silverlight Control Pack This toolkit provides a set of … Continue reading →

PDC is a wonderful conference but get ready for the onslaught of announcements, new material, information overload… I can assure that there is a lot of great stuff, and of course Tim and I and many others will be focusing … Continue reading →

November 22, 1963.  45 years.  Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

  I’ll be writing a set of mini-tutorials on the DataGrid that will, as the King advises, begins at the beginning, goes on till it comes to the end and then stops[1], but before I do, a "Set Of Behaviors … Continue reading →