Dan Wahlin
AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML5, jQuery, Node.js, ASP.NET, C#, XAML
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Adding Style to Silverlight 2 Controls
Silverlight 2 provides a nice set of controls that can be used to capture and display data. While control properties can be set directly on the control in a XAML file using attributes, some properties will be duplicated between controls causing maintenance headaches. The following example demonstrates this problem:
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Speaking on Silverlight 2 at the Hawaii .NET User Group
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Silverlight 2 Released Today
Silverlight 2 was released today! Read more about the big announcement at Scott Guthrie’s blog. If you’ve been waiting to get into Silverlight 2 until it was officially released check out the following articles. Spike Xavier and I also put together a little song about Silverlight 2 awhile back which can be heard here.
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New Song Released: Learning to Fall
This post was published back during elections in 2008 - time flies. Same old problems though.
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jQuery to be Supported in Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC
Microsoft just announced that jQuery will be supported in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and shipped with ASP.NET MVC. Scott Guthrie mentions that an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will be made available in a “few weeks” to provide intellisense for jQuery and that ASP.NET MVC will use it for Ajax server-side helper methods. The ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit will also be using jQuery for higher-level controls. -
Get It While It’s Hot! Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available
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Animating Clipping Paths in Silverlight 2
Clipping paths provide a way to hide sections of an object based on different geometries. You can apply rectangles, ellipses or even create your own custom paths to a target object and hide specific areas from view. I enjoy experimenting with things from time to time and decided to try creating a sports score scroller similar to the one found at the top of http://www.espn.com to see how much could be done with pure XAML. It allows a user to scroll a set of scores left or right by moving their mouse over corresponding arrows.
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Upcoming Silverlight 2 and ASP.NET AJAX Workshops
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Another New Player in the Browser Wars? Google’s Chrome Browser Released
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What If I Don’t Call Dispose() on my LINQ to SQL DataContext Object?
I’ve written a few posts about LINQ to SQL and am generally a big fan of the technology (even with its weaknesses) since it’s very productive. After creating a custom DataContext object using the LINQ to SQL designer (or one created by hand) I always ensure that the object is wrapped in a “using” statement so that the Dispose() method is called:
