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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:16 PM

Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control

div.live { border : blue solid medium; width:400; height:150 } The Silverlight Toolkit is innovative in many ways, not least of which is that controls are released in one of four quality bands : Mature : ready for release Stable : suitable for most scenarios...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 7:53 PM

More About the Layout System

I recently posted about the Silverlight Layout System (and now have posted videos on the subject here and here ). But this can get quite confusing and a reader posted this question: You mention PreArrange() and it is called but you are not clear on which...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:10 PM

Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that the videos Creating a Carousel Part 1 and Creating a Carousel Part 2 are now available.  These videos cover the material that is also discussed in my two part blog entry (beginning here ) including such...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009 4:10 PM

The Layout Model

I have finished a video , to be posted soon, on how to build a Carousel control. Along the way, I had the opportunity to explore the Silverlight Layout System ( SLS ) and will describe this fascinating corner of Silverlight 2 in this and future blog entries...
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Friday, December 05, 2008 3:01 PM

Creating Skinnable Custom Controls - Video

    I have completed the four part video series Creating Skinnable Customer Controls and I'm pleased to say they are rolling out onto the site. Part 2 is now available (click on the image). Parts 3 and 4 should post very soon.    ...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:29 PM

Using Blend with Visual Studio

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 productivity and it fits in well with...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:29 PM

Data Binding – Data Conversion

One of the more interesting topics that arise in Data-binding is that of Data Conversion. So much can be accomplished without explicit conversion that it is easy to overlook… until you hit the real world. To see this, I'll make a small modification to...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:39 PM

Dependency Properties - Precedence

Today we wrap up dependency properties by talking about one of the most important, though typically invisible aspects: DP precedence order. This is critical because dependency properties, by their nature, are designed to have their final value set from...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:03 PM

Dependency Properties, Continued

First, a hearty thank you to " obsid " who wrote a great comment noting that by using reflector you can find that the documentation is not yet updated and System.Windows.PropertyMetadata's constructor is overloaded. While I am a fan of writing...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:07 PM

Dependency Property System – Deeper Dive Part 1

On the 17th I began a discussion of Dependency Properties, but as I said then, there is more to say.  This central concept to Silverlight Programming has traditionally  been taught as an advanced concept.(Can we have  traditions in a product...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:00 AM

Dependency Properties – Background for Custom Controls

In  a previous post I began talking about Custom Controls, and I will continue that discussion over the next few days and weeks even as I start producing videos on the topic. It turns out that the more you look at Custom Controls, the deeper you...
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