I’m going to do this backwards. I’ll start assuming you already have your vector icon in XAML. Then, how to import your vector icon from Illustrator to XAML. The basics: Your button should look like this: <AppBarButton x:Name=”MyButton” Label=”do stuff” Style=”{StaticResource HeadphoneVectorIcons}”/> And the style should look like this: <Style x:Key=”HeadphoneVectorIcons” TargetType=”ButtonBase”>…
This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone. First, in the Object and Timeline select the TextBlock (or CheckBox or Button or whatever) you want to bind to: Then in the Properties tab…
App bars in Windows Phone 7 are actually a pretty cool little bit of functionality. They give the user 1-4 instantly accessible options for dealing with the screen the user is on, their buttons auto-animate in, they offer “always on” funtionality that isn’t going to be hidden by the on-screen keyboard, they give designers and…
I’m currently working on porting the run-away hit mobile application ShopSavvy to Windows Phone 7 (sign up to be a beta tester) and one of the things I really wished I had was the WrapPanel. (For those who are new to Silverlight/WPF/Windows Phone 7, the WrapPanel stacks UI elements either horizontally or vertically like the…
As promised, I’m posting my code for the demos from my MIX10 “Creating Effective Information Visualization in Silverlight” talk. Unemployment Data Demo Code Bing Maps Twitter Demo Code In case you want to take a look at the unemployment visualization, I’ve added it below. I’m looking for a place to do ASP.Net hosting because my…
UPDATED 05/22/09 In the comments, someone mentioned that the project wasn’t working properly for keyed scrolling. I’ve updated the project with: Key scrolling (left, right, up, down, page up, page down) CanKeyboardScroll property on the AnimatedScrollViewer so that keyboard scrolling can be turned off ScrollToSelectedItem property on the AnimatedListBox so that the user can have…
I was working on a project recently and I wanted one of my layout controls to have a different margin based on a certain piece of data. (It’s a long story… let’s just say that this is a good post if you want to change properties of a control based on a piece of data…
In this post, you’ll either need to walk through this tutorial on how to call and prepare JSON data gathered from the New York Times API or, if you’re not particularly interested in doing that, you can just download the final project here. This tutorial pretty much assumes that you’re starting from the end of…
Summary: In this post, I walk through the basics of using Silverlight to query the New York Times Article API and display the results of the query. You can see the final result below. You can also download source code for this project here. JSON/Silverlight/New York Times project files Huge thanks to Josh Holmes, whose…
I’d been holding out on this post in the interest of getting it just right. I think with more time I would add more stuff, but I stumbled across Scott Barnes’ post “I hate it when a designer touches XAML” and I knew that I need to get this posted. Here we have these fantastic…