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Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 3, 2012
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Create an amazingly useful 'Switch' addin to switch between cpp/h, designer/code, XAML/codebehind and more!...

Windows 8 Photoshop Templates

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, February 1, 2012
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Windows 8 is coming in hot! And here at Clarity we just couldn’t wait for MS to publish the official design guidelines. Our clients want to see their brand on Windows 8 now. So we meticulously picked ...

Color Code to SolidColor Conversion

The Code Project Latest Articles, January 10, 2012
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I think there might be a couple of typos in the original code. This works, though...public SolidColorBrush GetColor(string ColorCode){ return (SolidColorBrush)XamlReader.Load( "

Back from BUILD presentation material

Laurent Duveau, November 6, 2011
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   Here are the slides we used for the Back from BUILD presentation at DevTeach Ottawa 2011 with Colin Melia (@colinizer). We talked about: 1. The Windows 8 experience 2. Whats new ...

New Online Course: Introduction to Building Windows 8 Metro Applications

JohnPapa.net, November 4, 2011
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  I am happy to announce that my first course with Pluralsight is now available. I partnered on this course with my friend Dan Wahlin, who is a top notch instructor/presenter. Together we decide...

Fun is... using the same code on three different platforms. XAMLFinance shows us how.

MSDN: Coding4Fun, October 5, 2011
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Today's project provides one example of how you can target three different platforms, Windows Phone 7, Web/Silverlight and Windows Desktop/WPF while sharing much of the same for all three, while takin...

XAML Sessions at BUILD

Method ~ of ~ failed, September 13, 2011
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By now hopefully youve seen a lot of the revealing of what the next version of Windows has in store for developers. Trust me there is a LOT to absorb as the week continues and you should absolutely ke...

Implementing Data Paging with RadDataBoundListBox and the OnDemandManual Data Virtualization Mode

the telerik blogs, June 10, 2011
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It is clear that a good data driven Windows Phone 7 application must have a smart approach of handling large amounts of data and keeping jagged scrolling and long lasting loading screens away from the...

Watermark TextBox for Windows Phone

The Moth, April 23, 2011
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In my Translator by Moth app, in the textbox where the user enters a translation I show a "prompt" for the user that goes away when they tap on it to enter text (and returns if the textbox r...

Silverlight 4 Firestarter Series #3: How to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls in Silverlight

The Visual Basic Team, April 21, 2011
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I am back with details on how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls in Silverlight. In this walkthrough, we will see how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls to create a Data-Driven Silverlight I...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create a panorama and pivot effect for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, March 15, 2011
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Previously, I explained how to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a panorama and pivot effect in Wi...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, March 11, 2011
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In our last post, I explained how to create a settings page for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows...

Silverlight Essentials Video Training

MS-Joe, March 10, 2011
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Understanding XAML Timers for Animation Understanding Animations in XAML Understanding Brushes Understanding Text in XAML Using JavaScript Events in XAML Using Transforms in XAML Clipping in XAML Usin...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create a settings page for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, March 9, 2011
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I have experienced lot of fun creating Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic and writing about them here. In our last post, I explained how to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, March 7, 2011
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In our previous post, I explained how to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7. Bing Maps is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to sh...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to implement a model-view-viewmodel pattern in a Windows Phone application

The Visual Basic Team, February 28, 2011
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In our last post, I explained how to create a custom indeterminate progress bar application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to implement a model-view-vie...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create a custom indeterminate progress bar application for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, February 26, 2011
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In our last post, I explained how to create a microphone for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a custom indeterminate progress bar for Windows Phone ...

Workarounds for supporting MVVM in the Silverlight ContextMenu service

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), January 31, 2011
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As I discussed in my last post, some of the Silverlight controls does not support MVVM quite well out of the box without specific customizations. The Context Menu is another control that requires cust...

An Overview of XYChart Areas

ComponentArt WebLogs, November 25, 2010
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The visual layout for ComponentArt's XYChart for DataVisualization control is composed of five regions called Areas.  This article aims to give an idea of what these regions are, so that you ...

An Overview of XYChart Areas

ComponentArt WebLogs, November 25, 2010
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The visual layout for ComponentArt's XYChart for DataVisualization control is composed of five regions called Areas.  This article aims to give an idea of what these regions are, so that you ...

Quick Timesaver When Coding Xaml

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 17, 2010
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Try this in your Xaml <Button VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="5" Height="30" /> If Intellisense is doing its job, your actual key-strokes were <Bu &...

Rubiks Cube for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Balder

MSDN: Coding4Fun, November 9, 2010
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This article explains how to create an interactive Rubiks Cube game that runs in Silverlight and on the Windows Phone 7. Well start off by creating the solution for Silverlight and then make some mino...

LayoutTransform RenderTransform Size Resize Sizing Xaml Hack and black magic...

HackingSilverlight, October 7, 2010
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ok, so this is just really making me tired all over. about every size months or so I run into this problem but really after solving it I nicely forget until it hits me in the face again. So amoung the...

Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7

Method ~ of ~ failed, September 23, 2010
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I was spelunking around playing with Silverlight in Windows Phone 7 and specifically the CameraCaptureTask. The tasks are APIs that allow you to interact with phone-specific functionality like the cam...

XAML Clipart and Icons

Guy Barrettes WebLog, September 20, 2010
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Last week, I was doing a proof of concept Windows Forms screen and I wanted a little bit more punch so I went looking for some free icons.  I found a great site called OpenClipArt.org that has a ...

Introducing the Lync Controls SDK

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, September 13, 2010
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Microsoft today announced Lync Server 2010 as the official name for Communications Server 14.  A release candidate (build 7457) is also available for download at microsoft.com.  Lync inclu...

StringFormat and CurrentCulture in Silverlight

Method ~ of ~ failed, August 11, 2010
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I recently got a note about a nagging issue in using StringFormat in XAML binding expressions and how it doesnt honor the current users culture settings. This is true that there is an issue in that it...

New Video: Introduction to Xaml

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, July 13, 2010
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In my new video An Introduction To Xaml, I recreate the form used in Adding Controls To An Application, but this time using Xaml rather than drag and drop. Part of the ongoing video series: Getting St...

XAML Organizer is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in for organizing

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, May 23, 2010
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XAML Organizer add-in makes your XAML code look neater by fixing the indentation of elements and attributes, and removing unused namespaces  read moreBy Michael Detras...

My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme

JohnPapa.net, April 20, 2010
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Everyone has their preferences for their development IDE. Colors, fonts, tools, keyboard shortcuts, etc. Im certainly no different. I really prefer the darker themes over the white background. The bri...

Blazing fast performance with RadGridView for WPF 4.0 and Entity Framework 4.0

the telerik blogs, April 15, 2010
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Just before our upcoming release of Q1 2010 SP1 (early next week), Ive decided to check how RadGridView for WPF will handle complex Entity Framework 4.0 query with almost 2 million records: public c...

Dynamic XAP loading in Task-It - Part 1

the telerik blogs, March 29, 2010
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Download Source Code NOTE 1: The source code provided is running against the RC versions of Silverlight 4 and VisualStudio 2010, so you will need to update to those bits to run it. NOTE 2: After downl...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization

Brad Abrams, March 26, 2010
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To continue our series,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with ...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization

Brad Abrams, March 26, 2010
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To continue our series,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with ...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization

Brad Abrams, March 26, 2010
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To continue our series,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with ...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

Brad Abrams, March 22, 2010
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To continue our series, lets look at localizing our business applications.  In todays global village, it is often no longer OK to support only one language.   Many real world business a...

Restyling RadDataPager for WPF and Silverlight

the telerik blogs, March 16, 2010
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  A small but powerful control has joined the great family of Telerik XAML controls with the recent release. RadDataPager is a result of an increasing demand from our customers who needed to ...

ItemFlow: Live XAML Content

ComponentArt WebLogs, February 23, 2010
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  Along with ComponentArt UI Framework 2010.1 for Silverlight and WPF comes fantastic new funtionality for our ItemFlow control, the ability to utilize live XAML content within ItemFlowItem...

ItemFlow: Live XAML Content

ComponentArt WebLogs, February 23, 2010
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  Along with ComponentArt UI Framework 2010.1 for Silverlight and WPF comes fantastic new funtionality for our ItemFlow control, the ability to utilize live XAML content within ItemFlowItem...

Configuration & Decoupled Modules

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 23, 2010
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Two architectural demands for the Silverlight HVP, which are common to many larger applications, came together this week and crystallized into a design that looks to solve  two more unanticip...

Dependency Injection for Tards

HackingSilverlight, January 21, 2010
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Part of the whole fun with doing Tard'd samples is just the fun of doing something not quit PC but the bottom line really is doing clear and concise samples that are easy to understand. Granted MVVM r...

Asynchronous Image Loading in Silverlight

HackingSilverlight, January 4, 2010
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So one task that was bugging me today was doing image loading asynchronously so as to not drag the app down. Now there are some 'xaml' ways of doing this in wpf and supposedly in SL but alas I have no...

Silverlight Chart: Overview of Chart Types

ComponentArt WebLogs, December 15, 2009
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  This blog post lists all the chart types that Silverlight Chart supports. They are divided into several sections: bar charts, pie and doughnut charts, area charts, line charts, marker and bubbl...

Creating Custom DataPoint Annotations in Silverlight Charts

ComponentArt WebLogs, November 19, 2009
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As most people are by now aware, the recently released Web.UI 2009.3, introduces a Silverlight Charting control.  Although the main reasons for using the charting control is to visually display t...

Spot the Bug! Is it in VB or XAML? (Jonathan Aneja)

The Visual Basic Team, November 13, 2009
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Whats wrong with the following WPF code?   Class Window1     Sub OK_Click(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs) Handles OK.Click       MsgBox("Button Clicke...

Silverlight Chart Drilldown: Part One

ComponentArt WebLogs, November 11, 2009
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    This blog post will demonstrate how to use the drilldown capability of the Silverlight Chart control. Parts two and three will show how to integrate Chart drilldown with a BreadCrumb co...

Finally a Simple MVVM in Silverlight

HackingSilverlight, October 17, 2009
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So a week or so ago I ran across this article/post by Jeremiah Morrill (MVVM-for-Tarded-Folks-Like-Me-or-MVVM-and-What-it-Means-to-Me.aspx ) was agasp that some spent the time to make MVVM so understa...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 26: Authentication and Personalization

Brad Abrams, October 6, 2009
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The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to a...

Building a Dial Control

HackingSilverlight, September 24, 2009
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A friend posed a question a few weeks back about implementing a dial control. I found a few but they seemed problematic so I decided it can't possibly be that hard. So the idea is a control with a cus...

Free e-learning on XAML

Laurent Duveau, September 17, 2009
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Microsoft Learning has just released an online course "Introduction to XAML" which is free. To access the course follow this link: Clinic 6375AE: Introduction to XAML   Overview...