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February 2009 - Posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:23 PM

DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode_ForRealz [How to: Reliably detect Silverlight design mode in Blend and Visual Studio]

Catching up on Dave Campbell's fantastic WynApse feed earlier today, I came across this post by Bryant Likes about detecting design mode in Silverlight . One of the things mentioned in that post was the challenge of finding a design mode check that works
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:12 AM

Ambiguous contract is ambiguous [Minor bug fix for CRC32 and MD5Managed HashAlgorithm implementations]

Kind reader Gregor Zurowski contacted me over the weekend to let me know that he was using my free CRC-32 HashAlgorithm implementation in his project and he'd found that omitting the call to the Initialize method lead to incorrect hash values being returned.
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Monday, February 16, 2009 12:06 AM

Sometimes all it takes is a little encouragement [How to: Automatically update the widths of ListView columns]

I was working on a WPF project the other day and wanted an easy way to display data in a simple tabular format: a few columns (with headers) that would automatically size to fit their contents. The obvious choice was the ListView control and its GridView
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:27 PM

My new home page, expanded [Updated collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]

It's been a couple of months since I shared my semi-comprehensive page of Charting resources on the web . During that time, the Silverlight Toolkit's December release came out with some great new Charting features ( Woot! ) and there have been a number
Posted by Delay | 21 Comments
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:27 AM

Columns of a different color [Customizing the appearance of Silverlight charts with re-templating and MVVM]

When we created Silverlight Charting (background reading here and here ), we tried to make things as designer-friendly as possible. So friendly, in fact, that it would be possible for someone to take the default look-and-feel of what we'd released and
Posted by Delay | 6 Comments
Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:42 AM

The proverbial "one line fix" [ComputeFileHashes works around a troublesome Silverlight-on-Mac issue]

When I achieved cross-platform parity by adding MD5 support to the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes , I thought I was done for a while. But then I got an email from a coworker reporting that the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes running
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