DevDave - Dave Relyea's Silverlight Blog
Silverlight Phone and Rich Client Development
The Slider control as shipped with the Windows Phone Developer Tools has some problems, both due to...
Date: 10/04/2010
If you are doing Windows Phone 7 development, chances are that you are either using or have...
Date: 09/20/2010
The Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit also includes the WrapPanel from the Silverlight Tookit....
Date: 09/17/2010
If your Windows Phone 7 application includes a Panorama with a background, you may have seen...
Date: 09/17/2010
(Special thanks to Andre Michaud and Mike Russell who showed me how to do this.) ToolTips are quite...
Date: 10/18/2008
What happens when you create a Control? When do overrides get called and events get raised? When do...
Date: 10/11/2008
This example demonstrates how to give a Button new visuals and visual state by re-templating. It...
Date: 07/27/2008
In Layout Fundamentals Part 1, I started slowly, and demonstrated the need for a layout system. I...
Date: 07/26/2008
This is the first part of a series of articles on Silverlight 2's layout system. I'm going to start...
Date: 07/20/2008
I've been playing around with RenderTransforms and decorators and such to make layout transitions,...
Date: 07/17/2008
It can be a little tedious to type in everything that you need to define a DependencyProperty but...
Date: 06/28/2008
In a previous post, I introduced the Snapper element, which is a UserControl subclass that snaps its...
Date: 06/22/2008
One of the common things that developers want to do is to navigate between pages of their...
Date: 06/13/2008
How do you prevent the Slider from returning "ugly" values, and get it to "snap" to only the values...
Date: 06/12/2008
Presenting a dialog to the user is a common task for many applications. Silverlight 2 does not have...
Date: 06/07/2008
Executive Summary: Most of the time, SizeChanged is the right event to use, and LayoutUpdated is the...
Date: 05/27/2008
What is pixel snapping? Snapping in general usually refers to allowing a property to take discrete...
Date: 05/26/2008
In Silverlight 1.0, the only container element was Canvas. In Silverlight 2, there are a number of...
Date: 05/21/2008