Archive for November, 2009
Recently I had a ListBox bound to an ObservableCollection. The powers that be wanted me to sort the items in the collection in alphabetical order. Much to my surprise I found that this was not something built into a ListBox or into the ObservableCollection. So, I set out to figure out how to do this in WPF. [ READ MORE ]
Apress/Friends of Ed has engaged me to write a follow up to my last book Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight . This new book will have all of the information from my last book as it is still relevant for Silverlight 4 but will also include the many wonderful new features of Silvelright 4. I [ READ MORE ]
Hello All, I was playing around with simulated physics in Silverlight. I came accross a great, open source library called the FarseerPhysics library originated by Jeff Weber. I watched a couple of videos on how to do a couple of cool things but I realized there was no tutorial on how to create a Ragdoll. [ READ MORE ]
In this video I show you how to create a reuseable Silverlight Login UserControl complete with login functionality. Video: http://tw0.us/4o2 project: http://tw0.us/4ny  [ READ MORE ]
In this short video I show you how to create a Silverlight Timer using the DispatcherTimer class. I then show you a real world example where you would use a timer in Silverlight. Video: http://tw0.us/4o6 Project Download: http://tw0.us/4mr[ READ MORE ]
Hello All! I have finally done it; that is, add a project to codeplex! It consists of a Silverlight project (called StoryboarHelperProject) with a class called StoryboardHelper.cs. Currently it has two public static methods called FadeInFrameworkElement and FadeIOutFrameworkElement. They allow you to specify a FrameworkElement to be faded in or out over a specified duration [ READ MORE ]
In this short six minute tutorial I show you how to use the Silverlight Toolkit’s WrapPanel to create a Silverlight ListBox that displays three colums of data. This feat is difficult in WPF but possible because of the WrapPanel. Silverlight, however does not have a WrapPanel, that is until the Silverlight Toolkit came along! I [ READ MORE ]
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