I saw the light April 2010 - Posts - Alexey Zakharov's Blog

April 2010 - Posts

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A strange bug of Blend 4 RC by brainbox

We've been breaking our heads about a week because blend 4 RC stop showing visual states of controls in design view. Here is the simple blend projec t with single button style inside app.xaml. Could anybody see visual states changes of this button style...
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Alternative Grid Layout for Silverlight suggestion by brainbox

I've proposed a suggestion to create alternative grid layout for Silverlight . Please vote for it if also faced the same problems. As i write before current Silverlight Grid Layout breakes best practices of HTML and Adobe Flex Grid layouts. Current defention...
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Rapid convention based development of REST webservices for Silverlight by brainbox

I've just published a small framework on codeplex , which allows rapidly create REST webservices for Silverlight applications. This framework is the first public component of our Silverlight Application Framework. You can read more about it in my article...
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Silverlight Grid Layout is pain by brainbox

I think one of the biggest mistake of Silverlight and WPF is its Grid layout. Imagine you have a data form with 2 columns and 5 rows. You need to place new row after the first one. As a result you need to rewrite Grid.Rows and Grid.Columns in all rows...
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Silverlight layout hack: Centered content with fixed maxwidth by brainbox

Today we need to create centered content with fixed maxwidth. It is very easy to implement it for fixed width, but is not clear how to achieve the same for maxwidth. The solution to the problem is Grid with 3 columns: <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefenitions>...
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