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Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:12 PM

This is the first in series of posts called the “Extensibility Series.”  This series will cover writing design-times for WPF & Silverlight custom controls for the WPF & Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 that target .NET 4.0 and... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: c#, silverlight, Silverlight controls, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, Cider Designer, CodeProject, WPF Controls, Extensibility Series, Extensibility

Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:15 AM

As if you need “another” reason to start running Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, here is another for all the cross platform .NET Line of Business application developers. Silverlight 3 & 4 Library assemblies can be referenced in .NET 4.0 applications and... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, CodeProject

Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:36 PM

I have updated the project templates Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates.  The Silverlight template needed an update to the .proj file. Please download the templates from the above post. Sorry for the problem. Close Have a great... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, Cider Designer, CodeProject

Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:27 PM

I was working on a post for T4 Preprocessed Text Templates (I’ll post it tonight) and found a bug in the XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer grid parsing code.  Chances are you won’t hit it, but I did so I’ve corrected the... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, XAML Power Toys, Cider Designer, CodeProject

d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:02 AM

The WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 shares several new design time (d:) properties and design time MarkupExtensions with Expression Blend 3 that provide necessary information for the WPF and Silverlight Designer to deliver a great... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Expression Blend, tips, Data Binding, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, Cider Designer, CodeProject

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:26 PM

To get to this Options dialog, use the Tools menu, selected Options, select Text Editors, select XAML, select Miscellaneous. MarkupExtension IntelliSense and Editing The most requested feature for the WPF & Silverlight XAML Editor was MarkupExtension... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, CodeProject, WPF Controls

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:26 PM

Silverlight 3 application demonstrating Sample Data. Displaying Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is now very easy with the DesignData markup extension.  The below video is a complete tutorial for using... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Videos, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, CodeProject

XAML Power Toys v5 Published
Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:37 PM

It’s here and posted at: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/ Please read the Known Issue, New Installation and Upgrading sections in the above page. Five New 1280 x 1024 videos too. New Features and Changes in v5.0 x32 and x64 support... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, WPF General, VB.NET, XAML Power Toys, CodeProject

Silverlight-3 FireStarter 17 Sept 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:20 AM

On 17 September you have a wonderful and free opportunity to kick-start your Silverlight and Blend 3 skills.  I’ve started writing Silverlight 3 applications and love where this platform currently is and where it’s heading. Come join... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Expression Blend, Presentations, VB.NET, XAML Power Toys, CodeProject

Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell
Sunday, August 02, 2009 4:35 PM

Note: I updated this blog entry because the first method ran into problem with StackFrames in release builds without .pbd files.  I did find a JIT Compiler workaround but would never suggest such a hack. I have so much to share with you since my... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, tips, Visual Studio 2008, Data Binding, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, M-V-VM, MVVM, CodeProject

INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell
Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:37 PM

I have so much to share with you since my last blog entry.  Went on a cruise to Alaska to write BBQ Shack and Ocean v2 Code Name: Glacier.  Only got off the ship once because I was having way too much fun programming!  OK, I need an intervention... Read More...

by Karl On WPF - .Net » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, tips, Visual Studio 2008, Data Binding, WPF General, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET, M-V-VM, MVVM, CodeProject