Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

There are many great changes in Beta 2, and some are designed to make Silverlight more like WPF. One side effect of this is that event bubbling has changed just a bit and that bit breaks some of the examples … Continue reading →

I posted the code for the PageSwitcher app described in a previous blog post, but to save space and to make the download faster, I didn't include anything but the code (no solution or project files). A reader wrote asking … Continue reading →

Every once in a while I read a blog post that is so good I have to pass it on. Scott Hanselman said it perfectly today.

I wanted to build a multi-page (Search – Results) application when I realized that isn't really our model. Fortunately, I wrote to Ashish Shetty , who combines enormous knowledge with enormous kindness, and even though he is in the middle … Continue reading →

25 years ago Microsoft Word was released And 25 years ago, today,  I got married. Today I received this card from my wife… with this inside This is the secret to a great marriage and a great company.

The key point of my survey was to measure your satisfaction and then to make changes to increase satisfaction. I'm pleased that overall satisfaction seems high, but there is always room for improvement. I will shut down the survey on … Continue reading →

I received an email from Ian Griffiths who informed me that  the "Xaml spec refers to Xaml as Xaml, and not XAML." because Rob Relyea didn't like the "shouty caps" look of all upper case.  After some back and forth, … Continue reading →

I love office (as a shareholder) and I live in Word, though I'll keep my thoughts about the ribbon to myself. All of that aside, the Australia Office folks used Silverlight to create a fund raising site on the premise … Continue reading →

One of the comments left on the survey said (small excerpt follows) It is the opinion of my coworkers and I that video tutorials are all a HUGE waste.  We can't sit at work watching hours of video A perfectly … Continue reading →

I'm 2/3  through Daniel Park's surprisingly excellent book Camtasia 5: The Definitive Guide and have found more than enough I didn't know and am glad to have learned to justify reading it.  I've also ripped through Timothy J. Koegel's The … Continue reading →

I'm always looking for ways to make this blog specifically and all my material on silverlight in general more interactive. Survey Monkey offers free surveys, so I thought I'd try it out by asking you to take a 1 page … Continue reading →

[Updated with trivial, off-topic comment (at bottom of post) on 5/26] Tim Binkley-Jones sent in a Tip of the Day that custom attached properties make a superior choice to Tags because, in Silverlight, Tags can only be strings. This is … Continue reading →