The HTTP protocol supports data compression of network traffic via the Content-Encoding header . Compressing network traffic is beneficial because it reduces the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network - and sending fewer bytes obviously takes less time! The tradeoff is that it takes...

In yesterday's post, I announced the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit and gave an overview of the four new controls it includes. (For a discussion of the controls in the original Windows Phone Toolkit, please see my announcement for that release .) In today's post, I want to...

I'm happy to report that we've just published the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit November 2010 release ! This is the second iteration of the Windows Phone Toolkit and effectively doubles the number of controls we've created to help developers and designers build more compelling, more platform...

Today marks the official release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools . This free download enables anyone to create .NET applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform using the Silverlight framework (for traditional applications) or the XNA framework (for games). The Windows Phone 7 application development...

The WPF platform offers RenderTransform and LayoutTransform . Silverlight - being considerably smaller and a bit simpler - has only RenderTransform . Which is usually enough - except when it's not! :) So I wrote LayoutTransformControl a while back in order to bring LayoutTransform to the Silverlight...

It's been a few months since I posted my previous collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links . In the meantime, the April 2010 release of the Silverlight Toolkit was published with support for stacked series and significant performance improvements ! And Windows Phone 7 has been steadily building momentum...

I've previously blogged about how to get the Data Visualization assembly from the Silverlight Toolkit / WPF Toolkit working on Windows Phone. It's quite simple with my Data Visualization Development Release 4 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta because it's now as easy as adding a reference to...

The recent release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta introduces a variety of notable changes to the Windows Phone platform and I've been meaning to update my Data Visualization on Windows Phone sample so I could continue to refer people to it for educational purposes. ( Just like I did when the...

I've previously written that one of my ContextMenu test cases for the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit was to implement a quick "split button" control for Silverlight using Button and ContextMenu . Though it wasn't my goal to build a general-purpose control for widespread use, there's been...

One of my ContextMenu test cases for the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit ( click here for the full write-up ) was to implement a quick "split button" control for Silverlight using Button and ContextMenu . In that post, I cautioned that my goal at the time was to do some scenario testing...

A customer contacted me a few days ago asking how to display text labels on a NumericAxis . (Whereas CategoryAxis makes it easy to use text labels for the in dependent axis, this request was about text labels on the d ependent axis.) It's a bit of an unusual request (I spent a minute just now and don...

I was contacted by Simon Weaver via Twitter about a problem where the Bindings for MenuItem s of a ContextMenu on a DataGrid were acting as though they were associated with a different row than they really were. This seemed pretty weird until Yifung Lin , one of the original DataGrid developers, suggested...

Last week saw the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP - April Refresh , a free set of tools and an emulator that lets everyone get started writing Windows Phone 7 applications. Not only is the application platform for Windows Phone 7 based on the same Silverlight framework many of us already...

A few days ago, Martin Naughton and Tiago Halm de Carvalho e Branco independently contacted me to report a problem they were having with the new ContextMenu control in the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit . In both cases, they were toggling the IsEnabled property of a MenuItem directly and...

My DataVisualizationDemos application is a collection of nearly all the Data Visualization samples I've posted to my blog. And just like the Data Visualization assembly ( get Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 here! ), the demo application runs on Silverlight 3 , Silverlight 4 ...

The April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit brought stacked series support to the Data Visualization assembly on the Silverlight 4 platform! You can read an overview here and get a detailed description here . Almost simultaneously, the WPF team released WPF 4 as part of .NET 4 and Visual Studio...

A great way to test a new control is to make use of it in a real-world scenario. So one of the things I did just before we published the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit ( click here for my full write-up ) was to take the ContextMenu code I'd written out for a little test drive. One of my...

Yesterday's publication of the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit includes a bunch of new functionality. If you haven't read my release notes post , now might be a good time to do so... Okay, thanks. :) I intentionally didn't go into much detail about the improvements to the Data Visualization...

The Silverlight team released Silverlight 4 today and it includes a variety of compelling new features and great improvements for all kinds of scenarios. You can learn more about the new platform hotness in the Silverlight 4 Technical Feature Overview . Congratulations to the team on another great...

Some great content has been published since I posted my previous collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links . What's more, the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit and the February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit have both been released, so please have a look at them if you haven't already...

When someone asked me how to rotate the axis labels of a chart from the Data Visualization package of the Silverlight Toolkit / WPF Toolkit earlier today, I realized it was time for a quick blog post. Because when I've answered a question two or three times, it's usually a pretty good sign that I'll...

It was back in March of last year that I explained the motivation for the WeakEventListener class I'd started using in the Silverlight Toolkit 's Data Visualization assembly. Since then, a few other Toolkit controls have added WeakEventListener where necessary - but otherwise not much has changed......

The WPF Toolkit team has just published the February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit ! In addition to a variety of bug fixes for DataGrid , DatePicker , Calendar , and Visual State Manager , this release also includes the latest changes to the Data Visualization assembly for Silverlight and WPF , bringing...

One of the big requests people have had for Silverlight was the ability to print, so one thing that's new in the Silverlight 4 Beta is the PrintDocument class which enables applications to print anything they want! There isn't an excess of fancy bells and whistles quite yet, but the support Silverlight...

Recently, I came across this article in the Expression Newsletter showing how to create a three-column ListBox . In it, Victor Gaudioso shows a Blend -only technique for creating a Silverlight/WPF ListBox with three columns. [And I award him extra credit for using the Silverlight Toolkit to do so! :...