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Silverlight came to Opera 10 by brainbox

Today I discovered that Opera 10 supports Silverlight. So now it is possible to say that on windows platform Silverlight is really crossbrowser. Official Opera post .
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Issues of Silverlight style system by brainbox

Perhaps the second annoying problem after incomplete binding support is poor style system of Silverlight. Here is the main two issues. 1. Styles are not compatible with on demand application loading. Imagine you want to share style dictionary among a...
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Silverlight feature request site by brainbox

Today I’ve found a very nice Silverlight feature request site and I’d like to introduce MY MOST WANTED REQUEST . Full (WPF) databinding support: 1. Binding of non-framework elements. (Now you cannot bind properties of Behaviors and Triggers) 2. Binding...
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Silverlight DataForm Auto Generation Horror! by brainbox

Today I was trying to use automatic generation of DataForm from my ViewModels. After an hour of exploring it I recognized that it is nightmare! Look at this method: 1: private static Control GetControlFromType(Type type) 2: { 3: Debug.Assert(type != null...
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New article for SilverlightShow: Deep Dive Into WCF Part 1: TDD by brainbox

I've written new article for SilverlightShow.net. In this article I’ve showed some approaches, which make WCF more TDD friendly. Enjoy!
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Problem with running “Microsoft Press Training Kit exam prep suite” on Vista by brainbox

If you are failed to run ‘Microsoft Press Training Kit exam prep suite” on Vista, try this line in command prompt: regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\Vsocx6.ocx
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Deep zooming on the fly by brainbox

I’ve just published new article about dynamic deep zooming. With this approach you can make existent high quality site image zoomable without any preparations. Hope you will enjoy it!
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Silverlight Tips & Tricks: Make Silverlight DataGrid be more MVVM friendly =) by brainbox

Today one guy from our dev team met some problems with binding of datagrid selected items. Because of SelectedItems is readonly property, we cannot create two way binding for it. After a short discussion we decided to create DataGridSelectedChanged command...
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New article for SilverlightShow by brainbox

Hi Silverlighters, I've just published my new article about Silverlight sockets. Hope you will enjoy reading!
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Tips & Tricks: StyleCop copyright issue. by brainbox

Today I've started using StyleCop in my open source project. With the help of style cop you can configure copyright text, which should be added to each file. Also ReSharper plugin for StyleCop will automatically add this header after clean up. But there...
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