Just a quick note that I’ve moved my blog from here to http://bryantlikes.com . All the posts here should automatically redirect you to the new blog and the feeds should all migrate automatically. See you at my new site!
As a Silverlight developer, when you want to add functionality to an existing control, you have two main options as I see it (if you want to get reuse from your code). You can either subclass the control or, as of Silverlight 3, you can write a behavior for it. For example, one of the requests for the current Silverlight application that I’ve
The current Silverlight application that I’m building has a Login view. One of the things that bugged me when I started using the application is that you would have to click the Login button after typing your password. I wanted to duplicate the default button behavior of HTML forms where when you hit the enter key it would trigger the default
This is another nugget of gold gleaned from the Climbing Mt Avalon workshop , although I believe this one came from Jonathan Russ . He was talking about a bunch of threading tricks in WPF and showed how if you wanted to run some code after everything was initialized you could use the BeginInvoke method of the Dispatcher object. Since there are many
In my last post I blogged about using Attached Properties to get around the limitation that only Dependency Properties can be animated. One astute commented noted that he was guessing this could be applied to animations as well and the answer is yet it can. However, it requires one extra step that makes it a little less appealing. Also I mentioned in
I need to find the forum post where this question was asked, but I’ll have to do that later since I’m at MIX09 and searching the forums is low on my list. But I wanted to share a cool hack that I came across in the Climbing Mt Avalon (it was definitely a climb, not a hike). One of the many cool things that was shared was a tidbit by Jaime
Yesterday I was working through another question in the Silverlight Forums about how to upload video to Silverlight Streaming via code. At first I tried to reference the Video.Show application , but there is a lot of code there and it doesn’t help if you just want to upload a bunch of videos to the same application. So I ended up taking some of
This question has come up in the forums a few times so I thought it would be worth a blog post. Most people are pretty familiar with debugging a Silverlight application running locally during development, but what people many times don’t realize is that you can also attach your debugger to a xap file that is hosted remotely. This MSDN article
You may have noticed the new look for the Twilight Twitter Badge on my blog a few weeks ago. I wanted to add a few new looks for the badge and got one of them done but then decided I need to spend some more time on it before releasing it because I didn’t like the way the code was turning out. There were a couple of things I didn’t like:
One of the things I’ve been trying to getting a better understanding of is how to make the Silverlight projects I work on more blendable : In general, WPF and Silverlight controls should be "blendable". ItemsControls need to display representative data within the design surface. The problem, at least for me, is that every example out