Unni's Blog

A new extension point we have added to Blend 3 (based on very popular demand) can be seen put to good use with the Silverlight Chart control - we call it the AlternateContentProperty attribute. Annotating the properties of a control with this attribute Read More...

Based on popular demand, here is a quick sample (WPF only though it would be very easy to port this as-is to Silverlight - currently busy with Blend 3 work and all the cool newer features we are adding to Blend 3) that will allow you to get started on Read More...

Writing a design time experience for a Silverlight control can be a bit intimidating (the experience for WPF controls remains unchanged from Blend 2 - just that you now have a ton more extensibility points - unless you wanted to re-use the same design-time Read More...

Based on popular customer feedback, we have added a number of new extensibility points in Blend 3 (sorry, no support for plugins, yet, but who needs an officially supported extensibility model anyway ? :) ) Over the next few weeks, I will provide more Read More...