This introduction to Silverlight Controls is the topic of the second week of a Silverlight class that John Stockton and I are beginning at Ascentium .  Last week we gave a more high-level review of the Silverlight plug-in and an intro to XAML.  The summary of last week's class can be found...

Databinding with XAML is a lot of work. There is no drag drop table wizard, don’t search for it. Expression Blend (2.5) have a little bit more automatic support for binding Objects. When Blend is in Design View there is under Project tab a Data tab. Step1: open + CLR Object option- then you get a error...

A Button is one of the most common elements used in an interactive application. In Silverlight 2, it is possible to specify nearly any control’s appearance by using a ControlTemplate. The control’s template can be defined within the control’s <ControlTemplate/> inner property, or it can be built...

Hay muchas cosas que contar y no se por donde empezar... Creo que empezaré por Silverlight , Microsoft acaba de publicar tres cosas sobre Silverlight: La comunidad oficial : http://silverlight.net/ : En ella tenemos documentación para empezar con Silverlight, Blogs, galería, foros, etc. Todo lo que nos...

It was a real headache for me to find how to remove gradient stop from the color slider. After 1 hour of mouse freestyling i found out that you can do it by dragging the stop down from the slider. =) No doubt this is lovely feature, but it is to hard to understand how it works at first time =)

Acaba de ser el MIX de Las Vegas y viene cargadito de novedades. Antes de nada me gustaría comentar que nuestro querido Silverlight va poco a poco ganando terreno. Y hay quien nos ayuda. Seguid el siguiente enlace y podréis verlo: http://www.youtube.com/marchmadness ¿Google? ¿Youtube...

Looking more and more like Softimage XSI...Nice ;-) Instead of Telling What We are Working On…Here is a Screenshot Instead! It’s been a while since we released a preview of Expression Blend 3 at MIX . We’ve been working pretty hard on continuing our work on Blend 3, but we haven’t really shared what...

Nakon što je na konferenciji Mix09 kao beta predstavljena svijetu, treća generacija Silverlight-a je u petak, 10. jula dosegla release status. Pored toga, u četvrtak 22. jula je objavljena i RTM verzija treće generacije Microsoft Expression alata (Expression 3). Na adresi http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight...

Text animations in Silverlight have been really dissapointing in the past. Especially with zooming, text motion looked extremely choppy. However Silverlight 3 includes a text rendering option that significantly improves text rendering - TextHintingMode . Setting the TextHintingMode to Animated allows...

It all started because I couldn't find a way to automatically scroll any element into view in Silverlight (a feature that exists in WPF). I take that back, I could get the job done with a ListBox's ScrollIntoView(ListBoxItem item) method, but I hardly wanted everything on my screen to be wrapped as a...