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April 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:05 PM

Trying to get the story straight [A brief summary of Storyboard differences between WPF and Silverlight]

I was investigating a Silverlight Toolkit bug this morning and got into a spirited discussion about Storyboard behavior with Jafar . We disagreed on a couple of points, so I [grudgingly :) ] coded up a quick test application to help sort things out. Unfortunately,
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Friday, April 24, 2009 12:23 AM

My new home page, extended [Updated collection of great Silverlight and WPF Charting resources!]

It's been a while since the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit - and even longer since I last posted a collection of Charting links . It's clearly time for an update, so I've added a bunch of new links to the collection below (FYI: previously
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:11 AM

Another round of (un)support [Quick fix for the unofficial WPF Charting assembly!]

When I updated my ChartBuilder sample/application/learning tool for the March 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a few weeks ago, I included an unofficial build of the Silverlight Charting assembly for WPF. Despite my warning that WPF Charting was
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:23 PM

Fewer gotchas to getcha [Enhancing the ScrollIntoViewCentered method for WPF's ListBox]

Earlier this month I blogged about adding the ScrollIntoViewCentered method to WPF's ListBox control . At the time, I explained why it was necessary to set ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll to False for the code I'd written to function. The limitation didn't
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:29 PM

Comma quibbling a la Eric and Jafar [A slightly wacky approach to the problem in C#]

Jafar was teasing me about his F# solution to Eric Lippert's comma quibbling problem , and I decided to retaliate. :) One of the things I didn't like about the five-or-so solutions I'd seen [including Jafar's :P ] was that they were doing a bunch of work
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:21 PM

If one proxy is good, two must be better [Socks5to4a gives your SOCKS 4a proxy a free upgrade!]

I occasionally find myself on a particular network that's separated from the rest of the Internet by a firewall . The administrators of this network are kind enough to provide both HTTP and SOCKS 4a proxy servers , so it's generally quite easy to get
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Friday, April 10, 2009 11:28 PM

A bit more(er) than meets the eye [Easily animate and update LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator!]

Yesterday I posted the code for AnimationMediator, a simple Mediator class to make it easy to animate the Transitions of a LayoutTransformer . Today, Silverlight Toolkit teammate Ted Glaza asked why the LayoutTransformerName property was present and I
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:03 PM

A bit more than meets the eye [Easily animate LayoutTransformer with AnimationMediator!]

I came across a question on the Silverlight Toolkit support forum yesterday asking how to animate the values of a Transform used by the Silverlight Toolkit 's LayoutTransformer . (Background on LayoutTransformer: Motivation and introduction for Beta 1
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:38 AM

Nobody likes seeing the hourglass... [Keep your application responsive with BackgroundTaskManager on WPF and Silverlight]

In my last post I talked about the source control repository browser project I've been playing around with and mentioned that one of my primary goals was for the application to be "Completely asynchronous so that one or more long-running network tasks
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Friday, April 03, 2009 1:34 AM

If you could have this... would you even *want* it? [Playing around with writing a flexible source control repository browser in WPF]

I've spent some of my time during the bus ride to/from the office experimenting with creating a flexible source control repository browser in WPF. I started this project as a learning exercise for myself and to address a particular need. As it stands
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