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Monday, November 02, 2009 10:24 AM

As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!]

Back in May, I mentioned that Silverlight 2 and 3 don't support putting a Binding in the Value of a Setter . I explained why this is useful (ex: MVVM, TreeView expansion, developer/designer separation, etc.) and shared a helper class I wrote to implement
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:15 AM

My new home page, revised [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

In the time since sharing my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there have been some great new articles I'd like to highlight. And in case you haven't heard, we published the October 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit last week, so
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:02 PM

Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]

The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit came out on Monday and the Data Visualization assembly includes some nice updates. I discussed the details of the new release then and promised to revise my samples to run on the new bits. While I anticipated
Posted by Delay | 2 Comments
Monday, October 19, 2009 10:22 AM

Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!]

We've just published the October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit as part of today's .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010's Beta 2 release ! One of the big things we've done with this release of the Toolkit is to add rich support for Visual Studio 2010's
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Monday, September 21, 2009 12:37 AM

I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]

Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:40 PM

A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1]

It was about two months ago that I posted about Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0 . At the time, I explained how I was hoping to do occasional, out-of-band releases of the Data Visualization assembly that's part of the Silverlight
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Monday, July 27, 2009 10:59 AM

Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations]

A customer contacted me over the weekend asking how to add labels (also known as annotations) to a ColumnSeries . My reply was that we don't support annotations in Silverlight/WPF Charting yet, but it's possible to create some pretty simple ones for limited
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 11:01 PM

My new home page, enhanced [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]

In the time since posting my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links , there's been some great activity! Of particular significance, the June 2009 WPF Toolkit includes the same Data Visualization goodness that was introduced for Silverlight
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:18 PM

Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit's TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0]

Now that Data Visualization is part of the Silverlight Toolkit and the WPF Toolkit , it has an official release vehicle for both platforms of interest. This is great because it means that any customers who need to be running signed bits from an official
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:00 PM

An "extreme" update for the Silverlight 3 release [HeadTraxExtreme sample application updated]

A few weeks ago I wrote about an "app building" exercise we did on the Silverlight Toolkit team to help test our controls and identify potential issues with Silverlight 3 before it was released. My contribution to that effort was HeadTraxExtreme , an
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Friday, July 10, 2009 11:03 AM

Silverlight Charting gets an update - and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!]

We've just published the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit to help celebrate today's release of Silverlight 3 ! Silverlight 3 includes a wide variety of new features that significantly enhance the platform and make developing powerful applications
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:52 AM

WPF Charting: It's official! [June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!]

The WPF Toolkit team just published the June 2009 release of the WPF Toolkit . Those of you who know I'm on the Silverlight Toolkit team are probably wondering why this is relevant - so let's get right to the release notes for the next version of Silverlight/WPF
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Monday, June 15, 2009 12:13 PM

Peanut butter jelly time [How to: Create a pleasing visual effect with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

I was recently part of an e-mail thread with Pete Brown discussing the prospects of reproducing Richard Zadorozny's cool "jelly chart" behavior with the official Silverlight/WPF Charting controls from the Silverlight Toolkit . Richard's sample is really
Posted by Delay | 5 Comments
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:34 AM

Maintaining balance [A versatile red-black tree implementation for .NET (via Silverlight/WPF Charting)]

Problem I spent some time in my last post explaining how Silverlight/WPF Charting takes advantage of an ordered multi-dictionary to improve the performance of various scenarios . I wrote about Charting's use of a custom binary tree implementation and
Posted by Delay | 7 Comments
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
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