Let’s say you don’t really want to play nice with the theming engine in Windows Phone 7. This would be pretty understandable… when you play nice with theming you either need to 1) come up with some nice innovative solution that detects themes and sets brushes and colors dynamically or 2) use only the black,…
Click here if you don’t want to hear me complain about the Silverlight toolkit and you just want to get to the animations. If you are like me, you’re working on Windows Phone 7 applications in your pajamas, subsisting on pork jerky and Coke Zero and dreaming of that one project that will make you…
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…
I discovered this amazing feature almost by accident and it has made this one part of my design so much easier that I had to share it. A new feature in Silverlight 4 is the ability to using the StringFormat feature when binding. Previously, if I wanted to have a piece of text that said…
In the comments of my Silverlight unemployment visualization, someone asked about where I got the US outline. I got it from the WikiCommons website which has an SVG (scalable vector graphics) version that I pulled into Adobe Illustrator and then exported as a XAML file using Mike Swanson’s Illustrator-to-XAML plugin. I realized this might not…
Thanks to Joe McBride and Jason Alderman, who discovered this technique in some of Microsoft’s theme packs. I’m trying something a little new… I’m going to post all future Silverlight tutorials on CodeRun, an online IDE. Basically, just follow the link below and click “Run” and you’ll see this in action. You can change the…
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…
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…