Bryant's Avanade Blog : Silverlight

Behaviors vs Subclassing in Silverlight

As a Silverlight developer, when you want to add functionality to an existing control, you have two main options as I see it (if you want to get reuse from your code). You can either subclass the control or, as of Silverlight 3, you can write a Read More

posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:42 AM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

A “Default Command” for Silverlight

The current Silverlight application that I’m building has a Login view. One of the things that bugged me when I started using the application is that you would have to click the Login button after typing your password. I wanted to duplicate the Read More

posted Monday, September 28, 2009 2:23 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Avanade, Silverlight

Faking the Initialized Event in Silverlight

This is another nugget of gold gleaned from the Climbing Mt Avalon workshop, although I believe this one came from Jonathan Russ. He was talking about a bunch of threading tricks in WPF and showed how if you wanted to run some code after everything was Read More

posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:24 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

Animation Hack Using Attached Properties in Silverlight

In my last post I blogged about using Attached Properties to get around the limitation that only Dependency Properties can be animated. One astute commented noted that he was guessing this could be applied to animations as well and the answer is yet it Read More

posted Monday, March 23, 2009 3:27 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight, UX

Styling Hack Using Attached Properties in Silverlight

I need to find the forum post where this question was asked, but I’ll have to do that later since I’m at MIX09 and searching the forums is low on my list. But I wanted to share a cool hack that I came across in the Climbing Mt Avalon (it was Read More

posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:08 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

Silverlight Streaming Utility Classes

Yesterday I was working through another question in the Silverlight Forums about how to upload video to Silverlight Streaming via code. At first I tried to reference the Video.Show application, but there is a lot of code there and it doesn’t help Read More

posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:36 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

Debugging a Remotely Hosted Silverlight App

This question has come up in the forums a few times so I thought it would be worth a blog post. Most people are pretty familiar with debugging a Silverlight application running locally during development, but what people many times don’t realize Read More

posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:32 AM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM

You may have noticed the new look for the Twilight Twitter Badge on my blog a few weeks ago. I wanted to add a few new looks for the badge and got one of them done but then decided I need to spend some more time on it before releasing it because I didn’t Read More

posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:15 AM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Twitter, UX

Detecting Design Mode in Silverlight

One of the things I’ve been trying to getting a better understanding of is how to make the Silverlight projects I work on more blendable: In general, WPF and Silverlight controls should be "blendable". ItemsControls need to display representative Read More

posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:46 AM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

Twilight 1.1: Using a Yahoo Pipes Proxy

I just pushed a minor update to Twilight that you can now download on the codeplex site (version 1.1). I really wanted to allow the xap file to be hosted on other servers since many bloggers don’t have the ability to host their own xap files. After Read More

posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:54 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Twitter

Twilight Source Code Published

This afternoon I put the Twilight source code up on CodePlex. Twilight is the Silverlight Twitter Badge that I created from my AgFeedReader Mix 10k contest entry. You can download the source and I also packaged up the Xap file along with support files Read More

posted Monday, January 26, 2009 6:21 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Twitter

Twilight: A Silverlight Twitter Badge

When Twitter first came out I signed up but never really caught on until recently. I finally figured out that you really need to follow some people first to get the hang of it. Now I enjoy using Twitter and read peoples tweets using Witty, a WPF Twitter Read More

posted Friday, January 23, 2009 10:27 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ASP.Net/Web Services, WPF/E, Silverlight

Switching XAP Files on the Client Side

qingquan126778 asked the question in the Silverlight forums about how to switch between pages in Silverlight if the pages are in different xap files. First I pointed to Jesse Liberty’s post on multi-page applications (qinqquan wanted different Read More

posted Monday, December 22, 2008 8:15 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

MIX 10k Challenge Entry

So my entry in the Mix 10K challenge is up in the gallery. It was a fun little project to create and I went well over 10k many times during the project and then had to whittle it back down each time. It is a feed reader that allows you to subscribe to Read More

posted Monday, December 22, 2008 3:35 PM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

Silverlight Dependency Properties

I’ve seen this question a number of times in the Silverlight Forums, so instead of just answering it one more time I decided to answer it here so I can refer back to this. The question generally looks like this: I have create a dependency property Read More

posted Monday, December 15, 2008 10:08 AM by bryantl | 0 Comments
Filed Under: WPF/E, Silverlight

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