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Monday, November 30, 2009 12:21 PM

Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update]

We shipped the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a little over a week ago and it includes a handful of improvements to the Data Visualization assembly . It also adds support for the new Silverlight 4 Beta ! And while we were busy getting
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Monday, November 23, 2009 11:09 PM

Sharing isn't easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF]

I casually mentioned two tricks for sharing the same XAML across Silverlight and WPF in the notes of a post a couple weeks ago. I used both techniques in my DataVisualizationDemos project (which compiles for Silverlight and WPF from the same source code)
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:56 AM

Silverlight 4 Beta is out - and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!]

We've just published the November 09 release of the Silverlight Toolkit in conjunction with today's unveiling of the Silverlight 4 Beta ! The Silverlight 4 Beta offers a bunch of neat new features which enable even more compelling online (and offline!)
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Monday, November 16, 2009 10:24 AM

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

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about VirtualFileDataObject, my developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET and WPF . I followed that up by adding support for asynchronous behavior to improve the user experience during long-running operations
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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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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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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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Friday, October 16, 2009 12:47 AM

Brevity is the soul of wit [A free, easy, custom URL shortening solution for ASP.NET!]

I tend to write pretty long blog post titles. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? Admitting the problem? Except I don't usually think it's a problem... :) Nobody's going to type post URLs, anyway - long ones are really only an issue in one
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:08 PM

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, apparently I would, too [Just created a Twitter account: DavidAns]

Until today, I'd never gotten around to signing up for Twitter . After all, there are only so many hours in the day... But then Pete Brown (or should I say Pete_Brown ??) stopped by my office for a quick visit and the topic of Twitter came up. Pete explained
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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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