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…
Windows Phone can use Azure’s Microsoft Translation to bring simple translation access to your app
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 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…
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…
I recently got a comment asking if I could do something on creating a Blend-type ScollViewer styling. The only problem is that the ScrollViewer is a multi-post affair, which I’ll try to get completed in the next month or so. I’m going to go ahead and put up the basics here, much like my Styling…