Mark Tinderholt on Silverlight and WPF : Silverlight

Migrating Apps from Silverlight Beta 1 to Beta 2

Removed Windows.Controls.* from project ClientBin Added reference to System.Net so that WebClient would be recognized Changed accessibility for OnApplyTemplate from protected to public on all custom controls Changed PropertyChangedCallback Read More

posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:16 AM by markti | 0 Comments
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Silverlight Beta 2 Right Around the Corner

Looks like we should see it this Friday! Some highlights: Tab Control Improved Cross Domain Support Upload support for Web Client "Push" Support Oh boy! :-) Read More

posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:54 PM by markti | 0 Comments
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Creating a Custom Silverlight Control: The DropDownList

So many of you may have noticed that Microsoft did not include a DropDownList in the Beta 2 of Silverlight. So I thought I would take a stab at it. 1. The Parts Contract The first thing that you need to think about when creating a custom control is Read More

posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:12 AM by markti | 0 Comments
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Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml

So I am loving Silverlight 2.0 beta 1. Fantastic release. 1.1 got me to the stadium and 2.0 really knocked the ball out of the park. Coming from WPF, however, Silverlight can leave you...let's say...unsatisfied. It's the little things really, like being Read More

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:11 AM by markti | 0 Comments
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BUG: Center DataGridCell Content in Silverlight

So I have been banging my head against a wall on this one. It appears that this is a bug. I am trying to apply a Horizontal Alignment of text within a given DataGridColumn's cells. I am able to set the horizontal alginement on the Column Header to be Read More

posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:50 PM by markti | 0 Comments
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How to eliminate the RowHeader within a Silverlight DataGrid

So I am not a huge fan of the default templates for the Silverlight Controls but, hey at least we have controls now right? I wanted to eliminate that bulky cell to the left of each row to allow for my DataGrid's to be a little more concise. Below you Read More

posted Monday, April 28, 2008 7:47 AM by markti | 0 Comments
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Double click to enter Full Screen Mode in Silverlight 2.0b1

At first I used the Button control provided by the Silverlight Controls, mostly out of the novelty that we actually have a Button control now. But after staring at it, in all its greyness, I decided that restyling it really wouldn't help because its still Read More

posted Friday, April 11, 2008 5:58 AM by markti | 0 Comments
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Fullscreen in Silverlight 2.0b1

So after some snooping around it appears that one of the breaking changes in the move from Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0b1 is how you access the "Browser" Host. In fact, its not even called that any more. It has a much more on-brand naming convention. Read More

posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:52 PM by markti | 0 Comments
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Glossy Buttons in WPF Made Easy

For decades we have been oppressed by those cruel Framework developers over there at Microsoft. Well never fear, thanks to WPF and Silverlight the tyranny of the ForeColor and BackColor axis of evil is no more. We can now add gloss to anything and Read More

posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:40 PM by markti | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Silverlight, WPF

Scrolling on the Mouse Drag with ScrollViewer in Silverlight 2.0b1

I have been playing around with a data visualization of hierarchical data, such as family trees, for Silverlight 2.0b1. I'm not a huge fan of scollbars anyway so I thought I would try and eliminate the need for them by allowing my users to drag their Read More

posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:25 PM by markti | 0 Comments
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