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Programmatically uninstalling Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Application

Every once in a while there comes a need to provide a mechanism to uninstall your application programmatically.   For Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications , there seemed to be no way to accomplish it.  Fortunately, there’s a work-around Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:41 PM by sloscialo | 1 Comments

Working with PivotViewer and the CxmlCollectionSource

Microsoft’s PivotViewer control is an amazing tool for visualizing data and creating a unique UI for your application.  The one issue everyone seems to have with it, however, is its lack of styling capability.  In fact, working with PivotViewer Read More...
Posted Monday, October 17, 2011 9:39 PM by sloscialo | 0 Comments

The Cascade Game: From Silverlight to HTML5 (part 2)

Game Loops and Timer-Based Animations Previous Entries in Series Part 1 – Introduction and Game Layout My next short term goal was to get some of spheres to show and animate. And that was going to entail using HTML5’s new <canvas> tag. I saw two Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:02 PM by sloscialo | 0 Comments
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The Cascade Game: From Silverlight to HTML5 (part 1)

A few years ago I played a game on Facebook that had a simple premise, but became quite addictive for a while.  It consisted of progressing levels of spheres in which the player was tasked with exploding by initiating a chain-reaction.  You Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 08, 2011 8:39 PM by sloscialo | 1 Comments
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Where’s my DataContext?

Every now and then a question comes up concerning a missing DataContext.  The questions usually center around a ViewModel being set to a View properly, but then developer can not bind some command or property to a FrameworkElement.  And typically Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:51 PM by sloscialo | 0 Comments

Yet another way to attach ViewModels to Views

Throughout the short history of the MVVM design pattern, several methods have originated for populating Views with their ViewModels.  One of the most common methods is to use one of the frameworks ( PRISM , MVVM Light , Jounce , among others).  Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 19, 2011 4:45 PM by sloscialo | 0 Comments
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Silverlight Memory Leaks and AutomationPeers

Using a memory profiling tool such as ANTS Memory Profiler from Red-Gate or MemProfiler from SciTech Software (I’m sure there others, but those were the only two I found that can profile a Silverlight Out-Of-Browser application) is a good idea.  Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:09 PM by sloscialo | 2 Comments

Resumable downloads in Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications

The task facing us is simple.  In fact, it has been done before.  Many download management tools already have the ability to resume downloading a file if, for some reason, the process was interrupted.  There is no built-in facility for Read More...
Posted Monday, March 21, 2011 10:52 PM by sloscialo | 0 Comments

WPF – Animating multiple elements simultaneously

A question appeared on StackOverflow asking how to animate a property on multiple elements from one or more trigger mechanisms (i.e. a button click or list box selection).  The traditional approach (for brevity’s sake, I omitted the Xaml comprising Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:57 PM by sloscialo | 1 Comments
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