Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader
I have been doing Silverlight development since it was released. One question I get asked a lot is how do to create a custom pre-loader for my application. What do I mean by pre-loader? Well, it can be called many things; it could be called a pre-loader, splash screen, or a loading screen. No matter [...]
Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner.
Yesterday I gave a presentation on some new features in Silverlight 4. During this presentation I mentioned the newly available ability to interoperate with Office applications such as Outlook and Excel though the new ComAutomationFactory that is in Silverlight 4. Someone in the audience asked the question, “Can I access my scanner”, and of course [...]
NETDUG – Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting Presentation Sample Code
If you attended the NETDUG user group meeting last Thursday night and would like to download the sample code for my Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting presentation, you can download it here.
Recap:
The Silverlight and WPF platforms are very similar, but they do not have binary compatibility; this means that an assembly compiled for one platform cannot execute on [...]
BSDG – Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting Presentation Sample Code
If you attended the BSDG user group meeting last night and would like to download the sample code for my Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting presentation, you can download it here.
Recap:
The Silverlight and WPF platforms are very similar, but they do not have binary compatibility; this means that an assembly compiled for one platform cannot execute on [...]
A Simple WPF Loading Animation
Okay, so I needed a very simple and clean loading animation for a multi threaded application I was working on to notify the user that something was in the process of being loaded. So of course the first place I looked was Google, because I figured someone else has already written one and I could [...]
Debugging XAML
Okay, so I have been asked this question more than almost any XAML related question in the past few weeks; How do I debug XAML? The problem with XAML’s powerful binding model is that it can be difficult to debug errors in your binding paths.
Lets say I have the following code snippet:
<StatusBar>
<StatusBarItem>
[...]
The Free Office WPF Ribbon
So you want to use a Ribbon toolbar similar to Microsoft Word in your applications, but you don’t want to purchase one from a third party. Well if you haven’t heard already, you can get a free one directly from Microsoft. Yes, you heard me correctly, FREE, and FROM MICROSOFT. So where do you get [...]
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