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Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:33 PM

Pie Chart Easy AS….

I wanted to add an animated pie chart to my previous post.  The samples from the Toolkit are terrific, but sometimes it is difficult to find the easiest, most cookbook like process; so for those of you who might want to do the same, here is an annotated...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:03 PM

OK, So Now Where’s Jesse??

Like many other developers before me, I’ve been hit with a pretty bad case of Carpal Tunnel. Expected recovery is 7-10 days (we hope, we hope), so I won’t be blogging a lot or creating many videos until the end of the month. (Carpal Tip: while a track...
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Friday, May 08, 2009 4:08 PM

Time Flys Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana

We recently released my video on the new Animation Transition Control and in looking it over I noticed that I promised to follow up on the definition of a Date/Time “Tick” A quick look at Wikipedia reveals any number of problems with attempting to count...
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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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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:06 PM

ViKi Version 0.0.01

It is of course inertia, that overwhelming sense of “what is the most important thing to do first?” that will kill you, and this project got hit bad because it came just when Passover interrupted my normal schedule, along with the usual slew of unusual...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:25 PM

VideoWiki Design Step 1

The initial approach to designing the VideoWiki is to layout all the obvious pieces of the design, understanding that this will evolve over time. Here is my first cut at the design. If you have Silverlight 3 installed, the following is the live interactive...
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Monday, April 06, 2009 4:14 PM

VideoWiki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project

VideoWiki Project and Meta-Project – Launch I am pleased to announce a new long term project that I am launching here on Silverlight.net, principally on my blog, but that will reach into my videos and beyond. This note is the entry point to the project;...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 11:52 AM

Toolkit Control – TimePicker

You can learn a great deal about the new TimePicker class with a fairly simple example program that I will lay out and zip through here (a full video on the topic is coming very soon). To begin, you’ll want to download the latest Silverlight Toolkit,...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:07 PM

Mix 09 Trip Report

  It is traditional when you return from a conference to file a "trip report" with your team. What follows is my trip report to you , with an emphasis on what I learned. I will not review, here, all that was discussed about what is new...
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Friday, March 20, 2009 12:50 AM

Silverlight Toolkit Release

  Easily lost among all the exciting announcements here at Mix is some great news about the Silverlight Toolkit.  First, the March 2009 release for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 is now available here This release includes six new controls...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:33 PM

Update on Video Source Code

Update on Video Source Code First, thanks for your patience. I’m happy to confirm that the source code for Element to Element Binding and Using 3d are all correct for the Beta release. In addition, we’ll be posting the source code for Part 1 of Using...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:35 PM

Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video’s Code

As of this morning I have uploaded five videos (with C# and VB source code) for Silverlight 3. To have this ready at the moment of release I opted for most to build with pre-beta code. This note will review what to do if you run into trouble making the...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:40 PM

Sparkling Client Podcast on The Bubble Chart

I'm very pleased to provide this link to a brief discussion with Erik Mork about the Bubble Chart from the Silverlight Toolkit , which I believe ties in nicely with this post from late December.     [Bubble chart from the most recent samples...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:48 PM

Help! The Silverlight Toolkit Ate My PC!

Dear Jesse, "I loaded the Silverlight Toolkit from December 1988 on my CPM machine and it broke my Apple IIe in my vacation home in Maine. What should I do?" – Toolkit Lover. Dear Toolkit Lover, We have a dedicated forum for posting questions...
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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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