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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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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:29 AM

The Expander – Part 2

I recently examined the Expander control and in that entry I promised to return and show how templating can add value to the user experience of this Silverlight Toolkit control. You will remember that when we left the expander, it was able to display...
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Monday, December 22, 2008 5:34 PM

Application Set: Templates & Custom Controls

When we started creating How Do I videos, the idea was to have stand alone videos that do not depend on one another. That is still the ideal, though from time to time we do have two or three part videos because the material is just too complex to cover...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:47 AM

Custom Controls – The Dénouement

Over the past month I've posted half a dozen min-articles about creating custom controls that can interact with the Visual State Manager, and the underlying engine that makes it work; especially Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model . Intro...
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Friday, October 03, 2008 12:46 PM

Template Browser – an indispensible tool

One way that many developers like to create styles and templates for controls is to modify the existing styles and templates. An unusual feature of Silverlight is that every control in the toolbox is lookless – its appearance is determined by its own...
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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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Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:29 PM

RC0 & ContentPresenter

The breaking changes document points out that ContentPresenter now derives from FrameworkElement and thus loses 18 public properties as well as TextAlignment, TextDecorations and TextWrapping. All of this calls for a bit of rewriting if you've used...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:54 AM

Creating Custom Controls – A Common Starter Application

It will be helpful as we explore custom controls to have a common starting project. You may  remember from my posting on the 12th that I laid out a structure with three projects in one solution, with 5 important files. In the ClassLibrary, customcontrol...
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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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Friday, September 12, 2008 9:17 PM

Digging Into Custom Controls

Last night’s post was something of a preface, but let’s get started. [ For those of you who crave the details, the code, the feel of bits between your fingers, watch for a series of videos on this subject to be released in the next couple weeks with source...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:16 PM

A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images

In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom temlpated button. A third, and excellent...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:25 PM

Web Cast and Digging Deeper

Today I had the pleasure of presenting a web cast on building an application with more than one page and passing data among those pages. I have 2 videos on this topic, so if you missed the web cast and are interested, you may find this first video on...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:52 PM

In-State Animation In A Nutshell

I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:42 PM

Templates and Animation Webcast – Follow up

I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:27 PM

Digging Deeper: Templates and the Visual State Manager

There has been a number of requests for videos, tutorials and Webcasts that dive deeper. A few weeks ago I scheduled a Webcast for this Wednesday to cover  the Visual State Manager which presents a good opportunity to do so. During this Webcast I...
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