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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:38 PM

Creating something from nothing, asynchronously [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET improved!]

Last week I posted the code for VirtualFileDataObject, an easy-to-use implementation of virtual files for .NET and WPF . This code implements the standard IDataObject COM interface for drag-and-drop and clipboard operations and is specifically targeted
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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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Monday, October 26, 2009 11:34 AM

Creating something from nothing [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET!]

Have you ever used one of those programs that lets you drag a UI widget, drop it in a folder, and - poof - a file that didn't exist magically appears? Me, too - it's cool! But how does it work? Are they really deferring the work of creating that file
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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
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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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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:41 PM

Give your computer insomnia [Free tool and source code to temporarily prevent a machine from going to sleep!]

The default power settings for Windows are set up so a computer will go to sleep after 15 to 30 minutes of inactivity (i.e., no mouse or keyboard input). This is great because a computer that's not being used doesn't need to be running at full power.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:14 PM

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a ... TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF]

If you've done much work with WPF or Silverlight, chances are you already know what a TreeView is and what a DataGrid is. You know that a TreeView is good for showing hierarchical data and a DataGrid is good for showing tabular data. But you may not know
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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, August 31, 2009 10:46 PM

Get out of the way with the tray ["Minimize to tray" sample implementation for WPF]

"Minimize to tray" is a feature in some applications where minimizing the application removes its taskbar button and replaces it with a (much smaller) notification area icon. Clicking that notification icon restores the application's window - just like
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:40 AM

Using your own code is its own kind of encouragement [How to: Automatically update the widths of ListView columns - updated!]

Some time ago, I blogged about a helper class to automatically adjust the size of the columns of a ListView 's GridView to fit their contents. In my scenario, I was changing the value of the ListView 's ItemsSource property and wanted the columns to update
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:58 PM

Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer]

Recently, I got email from two different people with the same question: How do I animate the HorizontalOffset / VerticalOffset properties of a Silverlight/WPF ScrollViewer control? Just in case you've never tried this yourself, I'll tell you that it's
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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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