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May 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:39 PM

You've got to know where you've been to know where you're going [Some background on Charting's ordered multiple dictionary implementation]

As I've said before, one of our key goals for the March 09 release of Silverlight/WPF Charting was to improve the performance of key customer scenarios . I didn't go into a lot of details with the release notes, but one of the ways we accomplished this
Posted by Delay | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:34 PM

Chart tweaking made easy [How to: Make four simple color/ToolTip changes with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

While answering a support forum question I'd seen a couple of times before, I figured it would be helpful to write a post showing how to make simple styling changes to charts created by the Charting controls that come with the Silverlight Toolkit . Note
Posted by Delay | 7 Comments
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:31 AM

Pineapple upside-down chart [How to: Invert the axis of a chart for "smaller is better" scenarios]

Let's imagine that we want to use Silverlight (or WPF!) to chart the performance of a book on one of those "bestsellers" lists... The book we care about has been doing very well lately; here's the corresponding data we want to display: var items = new
Posted by Delay | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:40 AM

One more platform difference more-or-less tamed [SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better!]

Earlier this week I wrote about the "app building" exercise my team conducted and posted my sample application , a simple organizational hierarchy viewer using many of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit . One of the surprises I had during the process
Posted by Delay | 6 Comments
Monday, May 04, 2009 11:41 AM

Going "extreme" with Silverlight 3 [Sharing the source code for a real-world sample application]

My teammates and I spent some time last week on an exercise known as "app building" to help identify issues with the latest build of Silverlight, the SDK, and the Silverlight Toolkit . The way app building works is that everyone comes up with an idea
Posted by Delay | 15 Comments
 
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