Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim isVisible … Continue reading →

From now until the summer I'll be working on videos, tutorials, presentations and blogging, but I'll also be writing Programming Silverlight 2 with Tim Heuer. Rather than convincing you that I'm continually hawking my book, I'd rather use the process … Continue reading →

Before I say a word, let me tell you that Dave from Tangible Software has been sending me free copies of InstantVB and Instant C# for years and they posted a testimonial from me on their site. That is my … Continue reading →

I have set out on an integrated set of videos, tutorials and blog posts on the subject of using Expression Blend from the point of view of Silverlight 2 Programmers.  To get things going, I created a 3 part video … Continue reading →

Apparently Radio 1's Big Weekend is a big thing in England, and to launch the festivities they've made The Big Zoomy Photo Thing a central piece of the action (as you may guess, this is Silverlight/Zoom incognito). (picture cropped to … Continue reading →

Aha! Okay, I may not fully understand all the requirements, but the following demo will show how to dynamically create a user control and then have that user control close itself, remove itself from the containing page and fire an … Continue reading →

Ben H. asked a question within a comment to a previous blog post. Suppose, there is a button on the main form and when the user clicks on the button, a new container gets instantiated and the new container appears … Continue reading →

In what may be a first (at least for me) I've secured agreement with the very generous folks I work for here and at O'Reilly  to loosely join the tutorials and the chapters of our forthcoming book Programming Silverlight (co-authored … Continue reading →

In about a week, I'll be posting a video on creating a form that responds to keyboard shortcuts (as an intro to a video on user controls). This is also covered in the tutorial User Controls) As a challenge to … Continue reading →

[The links have been fixed. Thank you for your patience, and I apologize for the inconvenience.]   I very much enjoyed my double presentation at the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference in Atlantic City, where I promised, as always, to … Continue reading →

A quick announcement and some words of thanks. I'm pleased to say that Tutorial #5: Keyboard Input and User Controls is now available for reading on line or as a PDF. The thanks go first to Karen Corby whose amazing … Continue reading →