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November 2008 - Posts

Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:50 AM

Having problems with layout? Switch to Plan B! [LayoutTransformControl scenarios for WPF]

When I first wrote about adding full LayoutTransform fidelity to Silverlight with my LayoutTransformControl project, I mentioned that I'd found two scenarios where LayoutTransformControl's behavior differed from WPF's LayoutTransform . (Background reading
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Attachment(s): WpfLayoutTransformIssues.zip
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:33 AM

An unexceptional layout improvement [Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2!]

I'd almost finished patting myself on the back for managing to implement WPF's LayoutTransform on Silverlight using just the RenderTransform available on that platform. (Background reading for LayoutTransformControl: Motivation and introduction for Beta
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:09 AM

Shamelessly benefitting from the work of others [Links to Silverlight Airlines and Surface samples for RTW!]

I try to keep up with migrating my various samples to the latest Silverlight Beta/RTW releases, but I don't always have the chance to do so as quickly as I'd like. That's why it was great to find that someone had already done some of the work for me.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:15 PM

A fix for simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock bug fix for Silverlight 2 RTW!]

I updated my HtmlTextBlock sample for RTW last night and got an email from kind reader Ed Silverton this morning pointing out a problem setting FontSize on a standalone instance of the control. (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement for the Alpha
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:08 PM

My take on simple HTML display in Silverlight [HtmlTextBlock sample updated for Silverlight 2 RTW!]

A couple of readers have asked about an update to my long-running HtmlTextBlock sample for Silverlight 2 RTW . (Background reading: HtmlTextBlock Announcement for the Alpha , Improvements , Beta 1 Update , Data Binding Support , Beta 2 Update ) One person
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Monday, November 10, 2008 5:34 PM

My new home page [A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]

It's been nearly two weeks since the Silverlight Toolkit's November release . I've been trying to keep up with what's been written about Charting and want to summarize some of the most helpful posts I've seen so far. Overviews ( 100 level ) Silverlight
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:17 AM

Improving ChartBuilder's cultural sensitivity [ChartBuilder app/source updated!]

Kind readers Eugenio and Thimp independently reported that the initial version of ChartBuilder did not work well on machines with certain culture settings. Specifically, ChartBuilder was inadvertently using the CurrentCulture for formatting numbers in
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:34 PM

Easily create an ISO from a CD/DVD [Releasing ExtractISO tool and source]

A few years back I found myself in need of a tool to create an ISO image from a CD I owned. I searched around a bit, but the only tools I could find to do that were part of much larger programs and cost money I didn't want to spend. The concept seemed
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Attachment(s): ExtractISO.zip
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:20 PM

Smaller is still better! [A simple step continues to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications]

A few months ago, I looked at the size of Silverlight 2 XAP files and blogged a simple way to reduce the size of typical XAP files by about 22% . Silverlight 2 was still under development at the time and a lot of work has gone on since then (including
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