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Custom Controls – The Dénouement

Over the past month I've posted half a dozen min-articles about creating custom controls that can interact with the Visual State Manager, and the underlying engine that makes it work; especially Dependency Properties and the Parts and States Model . Intro to Custom Controls Part 1 Intro to Custom...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008
Template Browser – an indispensible tool

One way that many developers like to create styles and templates for controls is to modify the existing styles and templates. An unusual feature of Silverlight is that every control in the toolbox is lookless – its appearance is determined by its own generic.xaml, just like the custom controls you create...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2008
Dependency Properties – Background for Custom Controls

In a previous post I began talking about Custom Controls, and I will continue that discussion over the next few days and weeks even as I start producing videos on the topic. It turns out that the more you look at Custom Controls, the deeper you get into the Silverlight UI architecture, and there...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2008
Digging Into Custom Controls

Last night’s post was something of a preface, but let’s get started. [ For those of you who crave the details, the code, the feel of bits between your fingers, watch for a series of videos on this subject to be released in the next couple weeks with source in VB and C# ] As I started to say last night...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008
A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images

In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom temlpated button. A third, and excellent alternative was suggested to me by email by Justin...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008
Web Cast and Digging Deeper

Today I had the pleasure of presenting a web cast on building an application with more than one page and passing data among those pages. I have 2 videos on this topic, so if you missed the web cast and are interested, you may find this first video on switching pages of interest, and the second video...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008
In-State Animation In A Nutshell

I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State Manager uses animation (story boards) move from...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-26-2008
Templates and Animation Webcast – Follow up

I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the Tutorial introduction to Styles and Templates...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008

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