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TreeMap in Silverlight Toolkit: How to write your own interpolator

One of the new concepts introduced in the TreeMap control are Interpolators. They are used for example to interpolate the colors of rectangles or the font size in the titles of the NHL teams in the sample TreeMap in the picture above. I would like to

TreeMap control is comming to Silverlight Toolkit

Since this is my first post after over one month break I own an explanation. I have two excuses: one is of course vacations and the other one is really nice. Together with the colleagues of mine, I had the pleasure to work on a new control – TreeMap -

How to create generic animated panels in Silverlight 2 and 3 (Animations part I)

Introduction I’ve always had mixed feelings toward animations in cases of generic controls, panels or item controls. From one side it is extremely easy to define standard animations associated with visual states. From the other implementing any more sophisticated