Both Yet Another Carousel (YAC) and the WPF training site (which uses YAC) have been ported to Silverlight Beta 2.
- read the full post
Effective UI has put together a site called the User Interface Resource Center. They were kind enough to interview me about WPF, Silverlight, Expression and more. As they put it: In the 2008 whitepaper “The New Iteration,” Karsten Januszewski teams up with Jaime Rodriguez…
- read the full post
I recently used the Silverlight 2 Carousel sample I wrote for the WPF Boot Camp application and encountered a gotcha that some others may hit. Each carousel contains multiple videos, between 5 - 10. Initially, the source of the video was coming from an mms:// URI, streamed from a Windows serve…
- read the full post
In WPF, when styling a control, Blend has a very handy feature which allows you to get at the default style and template for any control, simply by right clicking the control and selecting "Edit Control Parts (Template)" and then selecting "Edit a Copy..." These styles and …
- read the full post
For some random reason, occasionally Silverlight 2 projects will suddenly no longer support debugging. Very frustrating. Fortunately, the fix is pretty simple: Right click on the Web in the Solution Explorer pane. If you have a Web project, you will see "Property Pages",…
- read the full post
Recently learned a nifty trick from Pete Blois about how to use a UserControl as a DataTemplate in Silverlight 2. This is real handy, because it allows for a more WPF-like workflow, allowing a designer to create data templates in Blend. With this workflow, the designer can go ahead and build o…
- read the full post
I recently was working on a Silverlight 2 project and needed to "phone home" from the .xap back to the server of origin to get a text file from the server. It wasn't completely obvious how to do this at first, so I figured I'd share the code I wrote if others need to do something similar. …
- read the full post