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March 2008 - Posts

Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:53 PM

Improved access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser available via ClickOnce]

In response to my previous post announcing the SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser tool for working with default styles for Silverlight 2 controls , I got an email from Rob Relyea suggesting that I make SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser available via ClickOnce
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:01 AM

Improving everyone's access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser tool and source code]

When customizing the look and feel of a Silverlight 2 control, people usually want to start with a copy of the control's default visuals. Unfortunately, getting at the default XAML for a control isn't always obvious or easy. A control's default XAML is
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:31 PM

Code to support new features doesn't write itself [HtmlTextBlock sample gets data binding support!]

In the comments to my post about porting the HtmlTextBlock sample to Silverlight 2 Beta 1 , kind reader eibrahim pointed out that Silverlight 2's data binding feature wasn't working with HtmlTextBlock. I explained why in a reply to that comment: This
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Attachment(s): HtmlTextBlockAndDataBinding.zip
Monday, March 17, 2008 12:46 PM

Continuing support for simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 1!]

A few months ago when Silverlight 1.1 Alpha was all the rage, I wrote a sample control that made a best-effort attempt to display simple HTML markup in Silverlight. The original HtmlTextBlock post described the control's purpose and the follow-up post
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:48 PM

Blogging code samples should be easy [Free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code!]

I've been including a lot of source code examples in my blog lately and needed a good way to paste properly formatted code in blog posts. I write my posts in HTML and wanted a tool that was easy to use, simple to install, produced concise HTML, and worked
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Attachment(s): ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText.zip
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:58 PM

LB-SV-WHY [Three wacky uses for Silverlight 2's ListBox and ScrollViewer!]

In my Silverlight 2 ListBox/ScrollViewer FAQ I described some common scenarios and demonstrated how to implement them with sample XAML/code. In this post I demonstrate three UNcommon ListBox/ScrollViewer scenarios - again showing the XAML/code that makes
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Attachment(s): LB-SV-WHY.zip
Monday, March 10, 2008 4:24 PM

LB-SV-WPF [Silverlight 2's ListBox and ScrollViewer controls running on WPF!]

In the Silverlight 2 ListBox/ScrollViewer FAQ , I mentioned that I'd done a lot of Silverlight control development on WPF. I spoke with a number of people at MIX08 last week and many of you wanted to know more. So I've created a Visual Studio solution
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Attachment(s): LB-SV-WPF.zip
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:12 PM

LB-SV-FAQ [Examples, Notes, Tips, and More for Silverlight 2 Beta 1's ListBox and ScrollViewer controls!]

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is available today, yay!! I'm celebrating by publishing an FAQ of sorts for the controls I worked on. While not all of the topics below are "frequently asked questions" (it's a little too soon for that...), they're all intended to
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