Info Vis, Snapping Behaviors, Illustrator Guidance and Custom Control Stuff

I’ve been a busy blogger over at Veracity Blogs the last couple weeks. Here’s a list of my new posts: Florida Crime Rate Visualization – My attempts to use Silverlight for information visualizations are going pretty well. In this post, I visualize the Florida crime rate by county over almost 20 years. There are project…

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INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use These Instead of DependencyProperties)

First things first, here are my INotifyPropertyChanged snippets. INotifyPropertyChanged snippet (PropertyChangedEventHandler and RaisePropertyChanged method) INotifyPropertyChanged Property snippet Just download them into your "Visual Studio 2008CodeSnippetsVisual C#My CodeSnippets" folder and they should work. Just type "notify" and intellisense should show you "notifyo" (for NotifyObject) and "notifyp" (for NotifyProperty). Hit tab twice and the code should dump…

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Source Code For Presidential Candidate Tracker Visualization

Due to repeated requests for the source code (and the fact that I apparently can’t brag about it on Silverlight.Net without a link to the source code), I’m putting it up for download. Presidential Candidate News Tracker Source Code JSON Data File With Candidate Data (Note: Apparently, WordPress likes to uncapitalize file names for me, you…

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Adventures with JSON and Silverlight (and the New York Times)

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…

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