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… Read More »Adventures with JSON and Silverlight (and the New York Times)
Last night I submitted my MIX 10K Challenge piece, so Iām just killing time while I wait for it to get accepted. Please keep me in mind if you plan… Read More »Mask Animations (Clipping Path Animations) In Silverlight Without a Line of Code
Warning: This is a poor solution if your gadget has any level of dragging interaction in it. The “windowless=true” step will make it so that any dragging interaction will be… Read More »How To Give a Silverlight 2 Gadget a Transparent Background
One of the nifty little tricks I got working in my attempt to update my Silverlight Color Picker was that I wanted to have the entire content of a TextBox… Read More »Getting a MouseLeftButtonDown or MouseLeftButtonUp Event From Your TextBox
Super cool new thing I learned today. In WPF, we can make it so that the drop down (popup) on a ComboBox displays the data in a ListView. Because of… Read More »How To Use a ListView or DataGrid In a ComboBox Drop Down (Without A Line Of Code)
Download code for this sample (updated for RCW) I was reading Mike Snow’s blog and he had a recent Silverlight tutorial on creating a Zooming toolbar. I looked at it… Read More »Create a Zooming Button Style In Silverlight Without Code
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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… Read More »Styling the ScrollViewer
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This is actually a continuation of my post on getting the ComboBox items to accept text wrapping, so I’ll be working from that point forward. If you’re coming fresh into this, you won’t be missing anything… but that is my explaination for the pictures containing wrapping text.
When last we left our heroes, we has a couple problems. The first was that our items were either black text on a white background and ran together in a very un-designer-y way.
The second was that the selected item background makes your eyes bleed such a horrid blue color you’ll feel like Paul Atreides staring at a stone burner.
Was that a little too geek? My apologies.