Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

In Silverlight 3 you can now use one User Interface element as the binding object for another. This can greatly simplify your code. For example, if you wish to display the value of a slider in a text box, there … Continue reading →

Animated movement often seems much more natural and realistic if the moving object accelerates up to speed or decelerates before stopping. The technique of adding that change in velocity is called Easing. You can imagine that the acceleration to speed, … Continue reading →

Over the past year or so I’ve noted that there is a sizable sub-group who feel that our How Do I videos are of marginal or negative value. This was crystallized by a series of emails that I’ll condense in … Continue reading →

Data Validation is fully implemented in Silverlight 3, utilizing the object the input control is bound to as the decider of what is valid, and the Visual State Machine to provide feedback to the user. The process is best understood … Continue reading →

In Silverlight 3 it is now possible to build a new style based on an existing style, thus reducing duplication of code and creating easier to manage resources (see also Merged Resource Dictionaries). Thus you could create a style for … Continue reading →

3d Perspective Transform In addition to the transforms that were available in Silverlight 2 (translate, skew, etc.) you can now apply perspective transforms to any Silverlight Element to create 3D images and animation. We have a two part video on … Continue reading →

You have to respect a man who believes in his message.  Chris Anderson, author and editor in chief of Wired Magazine , and formerly Internet Editor at the Economist,  has followed his best selling book The Long Tail: Why the … Continue reading →

About a month ago I wrote about getting organized.  Since it is Sunday and I’m saving my big announcement blog entry for tomorrow morning <smile>, I thought I’d take a moment for a not-so-quick follow up.    Two Philosophies Lead To … Continue reading →

About 5-10 times a week I get a letter that says something like this: “Your book, Complete Idiots’ Guide to a Career in Computer Programming  is wicked old. Do you still believe a programmer can be self-taught and is it … Continue reading →

From now until sometime this summer, you may notice bursts of slow. Please mark this up to: Summer vacation Building embargoed videos so that we have lots of great stuff ready when Silverlight 3 is released Updating older videos, tutorials, … Continue reading →

Ever since I started writing books I check Google (and for the past number of years it has been Google) for my name every now and then; both for the ego gratification and to see if there is misinformation or … Continue reading →