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April 2008 - Posts

On May 17,  Karl Shifflett and Josh Smith present their “ WPF Multi-Tier Business Application Track at the Enterprise Developers Guild Code Camp ”. The event is at the CPCC Central Campus located in Charlotte, NC.   If you are Read More...
Viewbox is a pretty handy 'container' in WPF..   It is a decorator that scales its child content to the size available to the viewbox ( if child is smaller it scales it up >1, if child is bigger it scales it down such that it fits based on Read More...
This one got stuck on my drafts on 4/10… sorry …   (FYI, I am back from my trip; more on that soon ) … - –-  -—-— -- - I am out all next 1.5 weeks talking to ISVs in EMEA about WPF and Silverlight… Read More...
Most people already know (from ScottGu’s blog post for example) that in Silverlight 2 you can override the ControlTemplate for a Control and ‘re-define’ the look of the control. However, I have received a few questions around the use of generic.xaml to Read More...
On my Deep zoom Post , I recommended that for Deep Zoom applications you instantiate the control using Silverlight.js to avoid the Click To Activate.   Some one picked on this and asked why the new default is using OBJECT. Here is what I know Read More...
Visifire has a free, open-source library for 2D and “3D looking” charts built using Silverlight 2..  Very cool!!   For me, this is obviously handy when creating demos and showing Silverlight capabilities; for commercial use they Read More...
 
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