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Layout Events - SizeChanged and LayoutUpdated

Executive Summary : Most of the time, SizeChanged is the right event to use, and LayoutUpdated is the wrong event. The Silverlight 2 layout system offers two events: SizeChanged and LayoutUpdated. They look the same...here is how they are hooked up in

Pixel Snapping - the Snapper Element

What is pixel snapping? Snapping in general usually refers to allowing a property to take discrete as opposed to continuous values. In Silverlight, values such as Width, Height, Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top are of type double and not restricted to integer

Why I Don't Like Canvas

In Silverlight 1.0, the only container element was Canvas. In Silverlight 2, there are a number of other layout containers, such as Grid, Border and StackPanel, and you can also make your own. Silverlight 2 applications can be completely layout-based