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Silverlight UI Rant #2 - ListBoxItem

Tonight's recipient of my UI Rant is the Silverlight 2 ListBox, or more specifically, the ListBoxItem.  A client recently asked me to provide an alternating row style like the DataGrid for the ListBox.  Now, if you've ever tried to add a border Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:29 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Silverlight UI Rant #1

If you've used the the Silverlight 2 DataGrid, you've no doubt seen this: I really hate when this happens! I've seen several forum discussions where folks were looking to get rid of this nastiness, so I know I'm not the only one losing sleep over it. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 12:02 AM by rrobinson | 1 Comments

HtmlPage.PopupWindow vs. HtmlWindow.Navigate

I was recently looking at various ways of launching an external window from inside a Silverlight 2 application.  Dusting off your javascript brain cell, you'll recall that to open a popup dialog in "the old days", we'd use window.open() Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:05 AM by rrobinson | 0 Comments
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Yngwie Malmsteen syndrome (Silverlight 2 Scroller revisited)

Earlier this month, I blogged about a Silverlight 2 Scroller control that I had labored over for the better part of a weekend. The entire time I was working on this Scroller, I had this small, dirty feeling that what I had created was somehow way more Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:26 PM by rrobinson | 2 Comments
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Silverlight System.ExecutionEngineException

Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone the pain that I just went through chasing yet another exception in Silverlight with nothing to go on from Visual Studio. (I really hope that there is some better feedback coming on Silverlight applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:29 PM by rrobinson | 1 Comments
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Silverlight 2 Scroller

01/22/09 : Scroller updated in this post . Last week I had the opportunity to really dive into some fun with a Silverlight 2 ListBox. It all started with a requirement for a simple Scroller control. You know, the simple left-to-right scrollers that you Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 6:52 PM by rrobinson | 1 Comments
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Initializing the FROM value of a Silverlight 2 Animation

Recently, I was attempting to create my own popup dialog. I had specific requirements in mind for this dialog, including:  I wanted to animate the Width/Height from 0x0 to the ActualWidth/ActualHeight I wanted to animate the Opacity from 0 to 1 I Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 6:40 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments
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