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Tip of the Day Meets the Micro-blog

A reader gave me what I hope will turn out to be a great idea... he wrote to lament the loss of the Tip of the Day. He also said, as others had, that he wished he had a way to contribute... and he wished there was a way to show his contribution, which is only fair. I like the idea of separating this...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-30-2008
Tip of the Day: Routed Events - Bubbling and not...

In Silverlight 2 Beta 1 some events bubble, and some do not. This can cause a bit of confusion, especially because the way this distinction is explained is itself confusing. To set the stage, let's examine the following simple event handling program which is extracted from my forthcoming video on...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-21-2008
Tip of the Day: Getting Started With Silverlight 2

A number of folks have asked me for a step by step set guide to getting started programming with Silverlight 2. Here it is. Useful tips Memorize this URL: http://silverlight.net - from there you can always find everything you need, including all the tools, tutorials, quick starts, videos, discussions...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-18-2008
How do I Write that In JavaScript?

A comment was left in response to Master Detail in Silverlight 2 asking " Any hint how to create such a sample with Java Script instead C# ?" I thought the answer was important enough to post to the blog in general... Two points about your question. The first is whether you are asking if one...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-17-2008
Source for the Tip of the Day

The Tip of the Day occasionally will delve deep into code (other days it will just provide a bit of useful information, or a tip, etc.) When code is examined, however, I'll try to provide a complete working example, and to get us started, I've gone backwards in time and added links to complete...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-16-2008
Tip of the Day - Binding to a Collection

The Tip of the Day doesn't usually carry on a related series of postings, but data binding is so important that I'm making an exception this weekend. Yesterday we looked at laying out a form using a grid holding a DataGrid and a second grid to create a master detail relationship, with the end...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-16-2008
Tip of the Day Returns from Disney - Master Detail in Silverlight 2

Okay, its true, I was having so much fun at Disney World (and if you've not been on Soarin , then find a conference in Orlando, and sneak out to Soar, yowza!) that Tip of the Day kinda' sorta' stopped for a day or two. But we're back again with more in depth explorations of the tutorials...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-15-2008
Tip of the Day: More Ways To Learn Silverlight 2

Yes, we have Silverlight 2 Videos and Yes we have Silverlight 2 tutorials But don't miss Tim Sneath's entry about his incredible Hands On Labs . These are gems.

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-12-2008
Tip of the Day: Content - It Ain't Just Text

In Silverlight 2, many of the controls have a content property where you might expect a text property. While it is common to fill that property with text, it isn't required that you do so. For example, you might create an application with two buttons... The code begins by defining three rows...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-11-2008
Tip of the Day - Routed Events

A routed event is is bubbled up the user interface tree whether or not it is handled by the object that receives the event. For example, if we return to a previous example in which we had a button within which were three sub-controls, the middle of which was a stack panel containing a check box whose...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-10-2008

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