We saw it when the world first discovered Flash and I'm sure we've got a lot of it left to live through with Silverlight, so this is pretty timely advice from the ''Godfather of Web Usability'' himself, Jakob Nielsen.  This should be required for every web developer.  There are some great links within the post as well, so be sure ...

I had a chance to attend the recent Atlanta stop of Wildermuth Consulting’s Silverlight Tour this past week and wanted to offer some quick comments about it here for anyone considering the class.  Going into the class, I had about 3 weeks of heads-down knowledge of Silverlight 1.0, but I had spent no time at all with Silverlight ...

There are many mouse events raised in Silverlight 1.1/2.0, but you will notice that right click is not one of them.  This is because by default the Silverlight plug-in hooks the right click to show information about Silverlight and update settings.  So what do you do if you have a feature such as a context menu that relies on the right ...

One of the things that I find myself doing over and over in Silverlight is centering text in TextBlock objects. The majority of the time I am doing this for headers, footers, and other areas where I have a single line of text. Often I find that I also need to size text within a TextBlock appropriately for the containing space. The algorithm is the ...

There are a couple things that I think a Silverlight control base class should be doing for you. First of all it should load up the appropriate XAML from the resource collection for you. As long as you follow the naming and association convention of Namespace.ClassName.xaml this is fairly easy to do. With just a little bit of reflection code you ...

I am sure that I am missing a few, but this is certainly a good starting point. ·         Addicted to Digital Media ·         Barak's Blog about Silverlight and beyond ·         Building a Better User ...

Keith Rome and I presented on Silverlight last week for the Charlotte Developers Guild.  We could not have hoped for a better crowd; by my count there were close to 80 in attendance.  The theme for the night was “Silverlight Soup to Nuts”.  I presented an overview of the features available to developers in Silverlight 1.1 ...