August 2009 Entries

Dynamic Paging in Silverlight

This topic has plagued me for some time now and I finally was able to engineer a working solution to achieve my goal.  The challenge was to be able to display a series of items each containing a header and an variable number of child items.  By itself, this is a fairly trivial problem to overcome, however, I had a few additional constraints that change the nature of the problem completely. Constraint #1: Instead of scrolling, the layout must display whatever possible in the available height, and the remaining items should appear on subsequent pages. Constraint #2: Each...