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Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update]
Monday, November 30, 2009 3:21 PM
We shipped the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a little over a week ago and it includes a handful of improvements to the Data Visualization assembly . It also adds support for the new Silverlight 4 Beta ! And while we were busy getting... Read More...
Silverlight Design Time Assemblies
Monday, November 30, 2009 5:07 AM
Introduction If you write Silverlight controls, you should consider writing design time assemblies for your controls too, for two simple reasons: developer productivity: try to imagine Silverlight development without tools like Visual Studio or Blend... Read More...
Sharing isn't easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:09 AM
I casually mentioned two tricks for sharing the same XAML across Silverlight and WPF in the notes of a post a couple weeks ago. I used both techniques in my DataVisualizationDemos project (which compiles for Silverlight and WPF from the same source code... Read More...
Silverlight Clipboard API
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:34 PM
Clipboard API in Silverlight Silverlight 4 adds Clipboard support. Check out the amazing demos by Scott Guthrie and Brian Goldfarb today at PDC that showcase scenarios enabled by Silveilght4 Clipboard support. Silverlight’s Clipboard API is a subset of... Read More...
My new home page, revised [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:15 PM
In the time since sharing my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there have been some great new articles I'd like to highlight. And in case you haven't heard, we published the October 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit last week, so... Read More...
Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:02 PM
The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit came out on Monday and the Data Visualization assembly includes some nice updates. I discussed the details of the new release then and promised to revise my samples to run on the new bits. While I anticipated... Read More...
Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!]
Monday, October 19, 2009 1:22 PM
We've just published the October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit as part of today's .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010's Beta 2 release ! One of the big things we've done with this release of the Toolkit is to add rich support for Visual Studio 2010... Read More...
Design pricing: It’s never just about the price
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:22 PM
Setting proper pricing for your UX design work is crucial. It goes hand in hand with setting your customer's expectations. Set the price too low and you will gain reputation of the same kind. Set it high – you will also set high expectations. If you can... Read More...
UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment
Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:58 PM
Calculating and even trying to understand what all adds up to the UX ROI is difficult task. When we are faced with clients and investors – ROI is something they often ask for. How to even start thinking about return on investment in the field of user... Read More...
Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast)
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:48 AM
This Expression Blend 3 tutorial introduces you to brushes and how to change the appearance of the specific object. You will learn how to use different types of brushes, and the special emphasis is given to gradient tools. How to create and modify gradients... Read More...
Silverlight designer sample code is posted
Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:45 PM
If you’ve been wishing for some helpful designer gestures for your Silverlight DataGrid controls, look no further. The Silverlight Designer Sample is available at the WPF and Silverlight Designer Extensibility site. It demonstrates a pretty neat designer... Read More...
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a ... TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF]
Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:14 AM
If you've done much work with WPF or Silverlight, chances are you already know what a TreeView is and what a DataGrid is. You know that a TreeView is good for showing hierarchical data and a DataGrid is good for showing tabular data. But you may not know... Read More...
I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]
Monday, September 21, 2009 3:37 AM
Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are... Read More...
A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1]
Monday, September 14, 2009 2:40 AM
It was about two months ago that I posted about Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0 . At the time, I explained how I was hoping to do occasional, out-of-band releases of the Data Visualization assembly that's part of the Silverlight... Read More...
PDC 2009: Workshop - “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs”
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:36 PM
  It looks like I’ve struck Gold and managed to get myself lined up to help out at PDC09 on the pre-conference workshop; Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3 “Come learn how the robust features of Silverlight 3 help developers to create innovative... Read More...
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