I’m working on a new project in which I need multiple ListPickers in a ScrollViewer. The ListPicker is available via the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. If you don’t have it, you should get it. Get the source as well, for reasons that will be clear in one more sentence. The only problem is…
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 haven’t blogged for a while not because I haven’t had anything to say but because I felt I need time to triage all cool stuff I’ve been learning about Windows Phone 7 Silverlight development. However, one thing that I’ve learned cannot wait. That is support for international characters in the WebBrowser control. Basically, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…