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Sizing in Silverlight – Pixels and Stars

Virtually all measurements (width, height, etc.) are measured in Pixels in Silverlight… except when they're not. Pixels When you are creating a shape or setting a margin, or filing in the width or height of a control the implicit unit is pixel. Thus, < Button Content ="Button"...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-21-2008
Something New Coming – Pocket MFA

My theory, based entirely on my own experience is that many developers would like to know just a bit more about design (not all developers, and not a lot more, just some developers, and just a bit more). Our reasons include: 1. The bar has been set higher by Silverlight and other application development...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
Tag Property – The Diplomatic Pouch of Silverlight

I received feedback from a few sources recently expressing confusion about the Tag property, which resides in the class FrameworkElement. Notice, first that Control (the base for all visible controls) derives directly from FrameworkElement and thus every control is-a Framework Element and thus...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
Dependency Properties - Precedence

Today we wrap up dependency properties by talking about one of the most important, though typically invisible aspects: DP precedence order. This is critical because dependency properties, by their nature, are designed to have their final value set from more than one influence (e.g., resources, data binding...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-02-2008
MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book , all...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008
Accessing the canvas in a Silverlight 1.1 User Control

When you create a Silverlight User Control from a piece of XAML, you expect to be able to modify the Canvas using the a standard property. After all, the control’s XAML is a Canvas. Foo.xaml <Canvas xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-30-2008
Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF

I'm delighted to see that Infragistics have just released their NetAdvantage control set for WPF. It's a huge download: over 100MB, so either the controls are very big, the documentation is extremely verbose, or there are lots of samples included! This control set nicely fills the gaps in the...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-30-2008
The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit extremely limiting). A lot of desktop application...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-07-2007
Silverlight Viewports

One thing you usually recognize about web-based games is that they generally have a fixed view. With a fixed view, your game world matches the web control 1:1. What if you want the game to take place in a larger space, like an entire world, or a galaxy. In the game world, you’d create a [...]

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2007

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