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July 2008 - Posts

Encrypting Configuration Settings in .NET 2.0
This article describes a utility called ProtectConfig that can be used to Encrypt/Decrypt .NET 2.0 configuration files using the ProtectSection ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.sectioninformation.protectsection.aspx ) API. Read More...
Using VisualTransition with a Silverlight Content Control
Note: The zip archive below has been updated after Silverlight 2 released to the web. For more details on the changes I made, see this post. This post is part of series that demonstrates how to write a Silverlight 2 content control. The first post in Read More...
Assigning a Name to a Silverlight Element
I answered this in a comment earlier today but I figured this was something that deserved a post of its own. There seems to be some confusion around how to set the name (x:Name in XAML) of a Silverlight object in code. Here's how it's done: object.SetValue(FrameworkElement.NameProperty, Read More...
Writing a Silverlight Content Control
This article illustrates the writing of a Silverlight content control. If you’d rather just dive into the code and explore it yourself then it is available for download here: http://cid-136a36717e5d129c.skydrive.live.com/embedrow.aspx/Blog%20Files/CollapsiblePanel.zip Read More...
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