Tutorial

Azure Microsoft Translation in Windows Phone (The Easy Way)

by matthiasshapiro
Azure, Tutorial, Windows Phone, XAML

Windows Phone can use Azure’s Microsoft Translation to bring simple translation access to your app

Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications For Beginners (Now With Testing!)

I know there are about a thousand blog posts on implementing push notifications in a Windows Phone 7 application. But having now implemented push notifications a couple times into WP7… Read More »Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications For Beginners (Now With Testing!)

Silverlight 4 Binding and StringFormat in XAML

by Matthias Shapiro
Silverlight 4, XAML

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… Read More »Silverlight 4 Binding and StringFormat in XAML

PHP, MySQL and Silverlight: The Complete Tutorial (Part 1)

by Matthias Shapiro
MySQL, PHP, Silverlight, Tutorial

This is meant to be the one-stop-shop blog post for creating a very simple web service in PHP that pulls from a MySQL database and displaying the data in Silverlight.… Read More »PHP, MySQL and Silverlight: The Complete Tutorial (Part 1)

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… Read More »Bookmarks for May 6th

Bookmarks for March 6th

These are my links for March 6th

Bookmarks for February 20th

These are my links for February 20th

Bookmarks for February 10th

These are my links for February 10th

Styling the ScrollViewer

by Matthias Shapiro
Blend, How To..., ScrollViewer, Tutorial, WPF, WPF Designer Guides

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

How Do I Wrap Text in a ListView Header?

by Matthias Shapiro
Blend, How To..., listview, Tutorial, WPF, XAML

OK, it’s really late and I want to get this done, so we’re going to go through the easy way, which will require some XAML, but I’ll try to keep it as Blend-y as possible.

So you have a column header and you want the text inside to wrap when the header space gets too short for the content. Your header probably looks something like this:

OriginalHeader

First, go to wherever your resources are being held and type the following in: