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Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly proud of it. Our goal in Programming Silverlight...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008
Who Ate My Mouse Down Event??

Before I leave, I want to squeeze in one quick note about a problem a lot of folks are running into as they upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I’ll come back to this in more detail when I get back, but here it is in a nutshell. A breaking change in the Beta 2 upgrade is that all the controls now handle MouseLeftButtonDown...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008
Popup Control

Beta 2 includes a wealth of new controls including the Popup (that is new, right? It’s not that I just didn’t notice it before?). I received an email today asking if I’d do a short How Do I video on creating a Popup and I certainly will, but here is a wicked fast tutorial for those of you who can’t wait...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-06-2008
Beta 2 Event Bubbling

There are many great changes in Beta 2, and some are designed to make Silverlight more like WPF. One side effect of this is that event bubbling has changed just a bit and that bit breaks some of the examples I love to use. In Beta 1, the distinction was that all the controls handled their own click events...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
Creating a Project from xaml and xaml.cs files

I posted the code for the PageSwitcher app described in a previous blog post , but to save space and to make the download faster, I didn't include anything but the code (no solution or project files). A reader wrote asking how to create a project and it is a more than fair question as the answer...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-31-2008
Multi-Page Applications in Silverlight

I wanted to build a multi-page (Search - Results) application when I realized that isn't really our model. Fortunately, I wrote to Ashish Shetty , who combines enormous knowledge with enormous kindness, and even though he is in the middle of blogging about this, he agreed that I could blog about...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-31-2008
In Silverlight, Tags are just strings...

Tim Binkley-Jones sent in a Tip of the Day that custom attached properties make a superior choice to Tags because, in Silverlight, Tags can only be strings . This is not what I've been saying, but he is right; I was wrong. He provides this excellent blog entry in which he explains the problem and...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-19-2008
Converting it to VB

Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim isVisible As Nullable(Of Boolean ) = Not AnyPropertyCheckBox.IsChecked...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-18-2008
Blend, VS, Events and C#

From now until the summer I'll be working on videos , tutorials , presentations and blogging, but I'll also be writing Programming Silverlight 2 with Tim Heuer . Rather than convincing you that I'm continually hawking my book, I'd rather use the process of writing it as an opportunity...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-18-2008
Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back To You

Aha! Okay, I may not fully understand all the requirements, but the following demo will show how to dynamically create a user control and then have that user control close itself, remove itself from the containing page and fire an event to the page so that the page can clean up any associated other controls...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-07-2008

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