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  • Silverlight 4 Binding and StringFormat in XAML

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  May 31, 2010 (3 weeks ago)
    Tags: Bindings , XAML , Silverlight 4 , Matthias Shapiro
    In this post Matthias Shapiro discusses the ability to use the StringFormat feature when binding in Silverlight 4.

    Previously, if I wanted to have a piece of text that said “Your name is [username]” I could either use the old Horizontal-Stack-Panel-And-2-TextBlocks trick or write a value converter (not going to be seen below because there’s a great example of it over here. Incidentally, that example is totally irrelevant if you’re going to use StringFormat, but more on that in a second).

    The StringFormat option in Silverlight 4 allows you put all that information into a single field, which is extremely useful not only for TextBlocks, but for Content fields in a Button. In fact, let’s use that as an example.



  • Essential Tools for the WPF Novice

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  May 25, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: Tools , XAML , WPF , Michael Sorens
    Take a look at this post in which Michael Sorens presents a collection of little known but useful utility applications that can assist you as you learn and develop WPF code.

    Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is simultaneously enticing and intimidating. It offers potential for amazing flexibility in UI design but there is a mountain of learning to climb. At the time of writing I am still very much in the foothills, gazing upward. This is my second article on WPF wherein I attempt to give both you and me a “leg up” on the WPF climb from a unique perspective.

  • MEF (Microsoft Extensibility Framework) made simple

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  May 18, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: MEF , Design Patterns , MVVM , XAML , Silverlight 4 , David Kelley
    In this post David Kelley talks about MEF, how to get started with it and what can MEF really do.

    Microsoft Extensibility Framework or MEF is one of the great features in Silverlight, designed around making Silverlight applications more extensible generally and provides a much more complete story for the separation of concerns. MEF then begs the question 'Why we care?' and 'What can MEF really do?' and we will address that here.

  • QuoteFloat: Animating TextBlock PlaneProjections for a spiraling effect in Silverlight

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  May 17, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: Animations , TextBlock , XAML , Effects , PlaneProjection , Antoni Dol
    This post of Antoni Dol is dedicated to QuoteFloat - an animation for TextBlock elements, inspired by the way the HTC Touch HD shows SMS Text messages.

    It moves the text up and rotates it at the same time resulting in a spiraling effect. It is done by giving the TextBlock elements a PlaneProjection each and animating the RotationY and GlobalOffsetY properties.

    The TextBlock elements are positioned below the bottom of the Canvas. The Canvas has a Clipping Mask so no one will see them until the animation starts.

  • Quick and Easy (scalable) rounded bevels

    0 comments  /  posted by  Phil Middlemiss  on  May 10, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: Buttons , Panels , Templates , XAML , Expression Blend , Phil Middlemiss
    Have you ever used Photoshop (or similar) to give a button or panel a 3D appearance using inner-bevels etc?
    Phil Middlemis describes an easy way to achieve the same thing but with 100% XAML and completely scalable.

    Some of the graphics were understandably left as raster since there would be no equivalent way to achieve the same result in Blend. But the elements that bothered me were usually simple panels or buttons [...] had rounded corners, and they had some kind of bevel that made them appear raised or lowered.Image

  • New Silverlight 4 Themes available–get the raw bits

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  May 04, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: Themes , RIA Services , Expression Blend , XAML , Templates , Controls , Styles , Silverlight 4 , Tim Heuer
    Tim Heuer announces that some new Silverlight 4 themes are now available and provides a raw drop of the sample project that was used to display the themes.
    A while back I posted a sneak peek preview of 3 new themes that we were working on for Silverlight 4 applications. Our team wanted to do more than just the overall base theme and provide the themes for the core, SDK and some Silverlight Toolkit controls as well.  In addition, there was a lot of internal chatter about how cool these new themes were and a lot of teams wanting to adopt them as default, including WCF RIA Services.

  • A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 5

    0 comments  /  posted by  Phil Middlemiss  on  May 03, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: Expression Blend , ProgressBar , Slider , Themes , XAML , Styles , Phil Middlemiss
    Phil Middlemiss continues his series on creating a Chrome and Glass style theme, this time looking at the ProgressBar and Slider controls. He takes a close look at the Indeterminate State of the ProgressBar control and explains what Control Parts are.

    Control Template of SliderThe red circle is around the Control Part icon. That icon indicates that the control expects there to be an element in the template called "ProgressBarTrack", and it usually has to be a control of the same type as is used in the default control template - in this case a Border control for "ProgressBarTrack" and a Rectangle element for "ProgressBarIndicator".

  • Using XAML to create a custom wallpaper image for your mobile device

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  Apr 29, 2010 (1 month ago)
    Tags: Images , XAML , WPF , David Anson
    In this post David Anson demonstrates how to create a custom wallpaper for your mobile device in a quite easy manner.

    Creating a custom wallpaper can be done in lots of different ways. For the purposes of this exercise, I wanted complete control over the layout, high quality graphics, and a flexible, hierarchical, vector-based approach. The answer was obvious: XAML! :)

  • Introduction to Silverlight - Silverlight tutorials Chapter 1

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  Apr 27, 2010 (2 months ago)
    Tags: Tutorials , XAML , Applications , Kunal Chowdhury
    In the first chapter of this tutorial written by Kunal Chowdhury you will learn about the very basic informations on Silverlight, its System Requirements and the pre-requisite to create a Silverlight application.
    After reading this chapter you will came to know about XAML, XAP file, Application XAML and how to host a Silverlight application.

  • Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification

    0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  Apr 26, 2010 (2 months ago)
    Tags: RIA Services , Authentication , Credentials , XAML , Silverlight 4 , Tim Heuer
    Take a look at this post of Tim Heuer in which he talks about modifying the Authorization header in network calls with Silverlight 4.

    A little bit of hidden gem in the Silverlight 4 release is the ability to modify the Authorization header in network calls. For most, the sheer ability to leverage network credentials in the networking stack will be enough.  But there are times when you may be working with an API that requires something other than basic authentication, but uses the Authorization HTTP header.


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