How To Create a Flexible Striped Gradient In Silverlight and WPF
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…
Silverlight Visualization of MIX10 Open Call Sessions
I was digging through all the sessions submitted for the MIX10 Open Call last week and I decided that there had to be a better way to browse through the data to find sessions that might be interesting. So I spent the weekend hacking together this Silverlight visualization of the MIX10 Open Call sessions. If…
Information Visualization and CNN
Sorry for my prolonged absence. My world has been taken over somewhat due to my recent moonlighting as an information visualization guy. Take note that I’m not by any means an “expert”… I’m more of an “enthusiast”, but that was apparently enough to get me on CNN. I’ll post more videos as I create them…
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…
WPF, Silverlight and Design Links for 09/08/09
I finally cleaned out my Google Reader list and picked out the stuff I like. Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers – Part 2 Source code for “WPF Control Development Unleashed” – From Pavan Podila, control development in WPF is pretty powerful… might be…
New Silverlight Posts at Veracity Blogs
I’ve started a series of posts on Silverlight and other topics over at the Veracity Solutions Blog. Veracity Solutions is the software consulting firm where I work and we’ve decided that it would be a good idea to do some sponsored posting there. Blog posts up so far are: Styling a ComboBox in Silverlight 3…
How To Create An Animated ScrollViewer (or ListBox) in WPF
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…
Bookmarks for May 6th
These are my links for May 6th: AutoScroller For Silverlight 2 ScrollViewer – Working on my own scrolling issues… there seem to be alot of them, but the more I dig into the control, the more I understand why. How to set the row height of a Grid in the code – Valuable if you're…
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…