December 2008 Entries
I don't really like making New Year Resolutions, because it seems like I always give up on them a couple weeks into the new year. But since I'm already doing most of these, I guess it doesn't matter what I call them. I hope this has been a great year for all of you and here's to a great 2009! See you next year! My New Year Resolutions Silverlight Contrib The first 3 releases of Silverlight Contrib generated a lot of buzz in the community. I'm really excited about next year and...
Silverlight Contrib Alpha 3 has been released! This release builds upon the Alpha 2 release with minor enhancements in many areas. As always, we are requesting your feedback so we can make the product better! Also, if you think you could help make Silverlight Contrib better and are serious about helping, we would love to hear from you! We need all the help we can get! Thanks! Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 - Alpha 3 Download Changes since the last release: Added API Documentation...
When building a Silverlight control, in some situations, you need the visual elements of the control to scale according to the size of the control. Sometimes, this is easy because you can simply leave the height and width dimensions unspecified for the visual elements and they will fill to consume the available space in the parent container. But in more complex situations, you need to be able to specify the dimensions of the visual elements in your control. The color picker control illustrated above has different parts, each of which should maintain the appropriate relative...
ReSharper is a great tool for developer productivity. I absolutely can't live without it! If you haven't already tried ReSharper, you should do yourself a favor and go download it now. It takes a while to get used to, but once you grok the features (namely the keyboard shortcuts), you will see how powerful this tool really is. Ok enough with the testimonials, how can you take advantage of ReSharper when working on Silverlight projects? If you have ever used Resharper, you may know that it has a great feature called Templates. Templates give you the ability to quickly...