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• Silverlight 3.0 - 3D Flip Action using Plane Projection

  After reading Jobi Joy’s post about a 3D Flip Control he had built. It gave me an idea about creating a Silverlight 3D Flip Action that can be applied to any UIElement. It also meant that I got to play with the new Plane Projection bits in SL 3.0. To Read More... Posted 16 April 2009 17:58 by Anonymous | 5 Comments

• Behaviors, Actions and View Models in Silverlight

  Behaviors are new to Silverlight 3 and WPF. The main reason we now have Behaviors in Silverlight was due to the lack of support in Silverlight of triggers. Triggers in WPF are incredibly useful as they provide the ability to change the look and feel  Read More... Posted 30 March 2009 11:38 by Anonymous | 6 Comments

• Designer Developer Workflow – The art of collaboration using Xaml PART III

  Last week Microsoft published the January issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this Read More... Posted 26 January 2009 20:16 by Anonymous | 6 Comments

• Silverlight themes 101 - Resource Dictionary Visual Studio Item Template

  Thought that i would share this simple item template that I created for Silverlight. In a previous post about Silverlight themes I was getting a little frustrated that there is no Item template in VS for Silverlight Resource Dictionaries. So I created Read More... Posted 05 November 2008 11:24 by Anonymous | 3 Comments

• Silverlight Themes 101

  With the recent public release of the Silverlight Toolkit one of the interesting features has to be the Theming. There has been a number of cool posts about theming and Jonas has a great post about how to leverage existing themes that have already be Read More... Posted 04 November 2008 14:41 by Anonymous | 6 Comments

• tech-ed Barcelona 2008 Presentation overview

  So the count down begins for the kick off to tech-ed Barcelona 2008 and my third time at the event presenting so really excited about next week. Tech-ed is always one of the better organised events that I go to and the country drinks are always fun to Read More... Posted 03 November 2008 17:41 by Anonymous | 3 Comments

• Del.icio.us Silverlight Library, Tag Clouds and Dependency Injection

  Last year I built a couple of WPF tag cloud applications that hooked up to my del.icio.us account and displayed the data using different visualisations which included a tag cloud in a variety of different flavours and I also used the Time Line Panel from Read More... Posted 07 August 2008 17:00 by Anonymous | 3 Comments

• Wordle - text clouds

  If you have not been over to Wordle then it's definitely worth checking out. Personally I really like the tag cloud metaphor as the information that I am looking for seems to be more obvious than scrolling through a long list of information, it's especially Read More... Posted 30 July 2008 09:35 by Anonymous | 2 Comments

• Silverlight Tweening Adventures with Baby Smash!

  Before starting out on my tweening adventures I have to admit too being complete tweening newbie. On previous WPF and Silverlight projects animations were rolled from scratch to provide the desired responses to changes in the applications state. With Read More... Posted 23 July 2008 15:32 by Anonymous | 2 Comments

• Silverlight Nuggets

  If like me you are following the Silverlight trail, you are more than likely to be reading Silverlight Cream and the Silverlight Show and their daily posts which provide a great way to stay on top of the daily Silverlight news. Not only do I subscribe Read More... Posted 15 July 2008 09:53 by Anonymous | 2 Comments