I’ve signed up for MIX 09, so I’ll be headed to Las Vegas this March. If you’re thinking about it, they’re having a pretty solid promotional where you can register for 40% off the standard cost with the RSVP code “MIXspecial1”. Go do it Interesting stuff happening at MIX this year… Johnny Lee, whose idea…
Karsten Januszewski has a post on getting intellisense into Blend. Apparently it only works for WPF (it “works” for Silverlight, but it pulls from the WPF XML schema, which sounds like it could be more confusing than useful). I’ve been begging for this for a while. I’m glad to see it in there… its has…
Seeing as how I’ve already spent far too much time on this little project, barring major problems with this control (please point them out!) this will probably be my last version of the control. My ADD is kicking in and I need to work on something else. If you’re interested in having the compact version…
Ha, fooled you! This is actutally how to write a custom event (with event handlers and everything!) in C#, but it turns out that you don’t need to change a damn thing about it to get it to work in Silverlight. (It’s always the “what do I have to change?” question that stumps me.) I…
Warning: This is a poor solution if your gadget has any level of dragging interaction in it. The “windowless=true” step will make it so that any dragging interaction will be interrupted by the gadget, which will interpret such a move as an attempt to drag the gadget off the side bar. Giving your Silverlight gadget…
First, glance over at Chris Szurgot’s post on creating a Silverlight Gadget. It really is as easy as he says it is. Just build your project in Visual Studio and in the html page replace the: <param name=”source” value=”ClientBin/MySilverlightApp.xap”/> with <param name=”source” value=”x-gadget:///MySilverlightApp.xap”/> There are a couple things that should be noted though. Here is…
I’ve finally updated my Silverlight color picker and it was none too soon, if you ask me. I’ve been missing this thing ever since the last compatibility break. Here you can download the source. Download Source for Color Picker Gadget And here you can download the gadget. Download Color Picker Gadget And here you can…
One of the nifty little tricks I got working in my attempt to update my Silverlight Color Picker was that I wanted to have the entire content of a TextBox to select when I clicked on it. Imagine my surprise when clicking on the TextBox didn’t fire either a MouseLeftButtonUp or a MouseLeftButtonDown event! This…
Here’s a Mac style Button tray I whipped up. I think it’s a neat concept and I’d love to see some more of this kind of dynamic interfaces in Sivlerlight. Actually, I’d love to see more dynamic interfaces in general. 🙂 The source code is a mess right now, but you’re welcome to it if…