OK… it’s been almost 2 months since I tried to start this series and now I’m going to finish it. A brief warning: this is done with pre-Mango bits so it won’t have all the latest, greatest most exciting things like the back-tile functionality or deep linking. (Here’s a good blog post on all that.)…
This is based on this Processing sketch on circle packing, but since I had to update it to get it to work, I figured I’d just post my alterations on the code. In case you’re not familiar with circle packing, it is an iterative algorithm for finding the lowest stable state of a set of…
I’ve been too quiet lately and I need to dump some links so I don’t forget about them: SVLite Effects from Cellbi – Amazing work with Silverlight… play around with their Carousel project in particular. Awesome. Silverlight.FX – From Nikhil Kothari, a very useful FX library with about a dozen kinds of transitions and effects….
So the items in your ListView column look like this: And you want them to look like this: If you’re trying to center something within a ListView column, it’s actually pretty simple.
This is really more for me so I can remember where I put things: WPF Pixel Shader Effect Library is up on Code Plex. I’m not sure where I would use them in a business app, but there they are. The October release of the WPF Toolkit is out and now contains the V1 of…
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 to select when I clicked on it. Imagine my surprise when clicking on the TextBox didn’t fire either a MouseLeftButtonUp or a MouseLeftButtonDown event! This…
“Um… no. None of those things are valid options in Clue.” In the last few months, I’ve had the joy of playing around with the Intel Galileo board for sensor-based Internet of Things projects. First, I installed Windows onto an SD card and popped it into the Galileo board. Step-by-step guide to get started with Windows IoT…
I apologize for my extended sabbatical here… I’ve recently gotten married, which has thrown a bit of a wrench in my blogging commitment. I’ll start posting again with some regularity in about three weeks, at which point I will also start working on my first line-of-business Silverlight project. Until then…
In case there is any interest out there… Apress is selling their “Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008” as an eBook for a measly $10. A great deal that ends at midnight. Hurry. Oh, and vote for me in the MIX 10K Challenge. I’m going to be a broken record about it for the next…
One of my big projects recently has been working with the ShopSavvy team to get ShopSavvy on the Windows Phone 7. Our first release was a bit rough, but we have definitely hit our stride with the latest drop. Check it out on the Windows Marketplace. By the way, an issue that I’ve seen a…