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Friday, November 06, 2009 2:28 PM

Designer v Xaml v Code

This is the second in my new series on Getting Started With Silverlight (please see the first article for information on the series and where to get the software you need). [updated11/8] Don’t Start with Xaml… Until recently, just about every introduction...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:38 AM

Project Turing – Data Entry (a mini-tutorial)

(click on the image to see other Mini-tutorials ) Turing Entry: [Novice: 3] FAQ Table of Contents The Turing Project design calls for a four component system: Data Entry Data Storage Data Service Data Display Eventually Data Entry will be via email or...
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Monday, June 15, 2009 3:52 PM

Have I Missed The Bus?

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 possible for someone my age...
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Friday, June 05, 2009 12:21 AM

Silverlight Validation in Detail

  In a previous pos t I mentioned that Silverlight 3 has enhanced support for data entry validation. In this first of two mini-tutorials on the topic,  I will take you through the process of implementing validation in some detail. The key to...
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Monday, May 04, 2009 12:39 AM

Validation. Hey! You’re Done!

div.live { border : blue solid medium; width:550; height:300 } Towards the end of my “ What’s New In Silverlight 3 ” presentation for Tech Ed, I discuss the (much anticipated) enhanced Data Validation in SL3. Now, anyone who has been around the block...
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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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Friday, April 24, 2009 6:23 PM

Easing is… Easier

For those who have been wondering “Where’s Jesse??” the answer is that I’ve been head’s down preparing for my presentation at Tech Ed (you are going to Tech Ed aren’t you?!) Microsoft has three major conferences. The following is my personal description...
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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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Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:02 PM

Quick 3-d Update

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I'd posted a two part video on the new 3d capabilities in Silverlight 3. Since then I've had a few great conversations with Jeff Paries (who knows more about Silverlight Animation than most people on the planet...
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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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Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:17 PM

The Header Content Control

This quick introduction to the HeaderContentControl of the Silverlight Toolkit will lay the ground work for future entries on the Expander control. To see the HeaderContentControl with as little fuss as possible, create a new Silverlight application and...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:46 AM

Drag and Drop with Managed Code

The last time I looked at Drag and Drop was with Silverlight version 1 and now seemed like a good time to see how one might accomplish this seemingly straight forward task with managed code. The experience was interesting. Once I had it working, it was...
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Friday, January 02, 2009 9:31 PM

Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel

The Silverlight Toolkit includes a couple new panels, one of which is the incredibly handy WrapPanel . [ Updated Jan. 4 to include working example ]   In its most straight forward use, the WrapPanel allows you to add UIElements which it positions...
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Monday, November 24, 2008 6:00 PM

Graphing – Silverlight Toolkit

Okay, thus begins random excursions into aspects of the Silverlight Toolkit, supplementing a more systematic set of videos…. The first thing you need to know about the Silverlight Toolkit is that there are two greatly under-utilized resources available...
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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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