Recently we’ve been going through another round of bug fixes and improvements to controls in theSilverlight Toolkit and SDK, and I’m looking to trim AutoCompleteBox where it differs a lot from the platform. 阅读全文…
The problem
Creating a rich interactive application today is generally a time consuming and manual process with little opportunity to streamline and simplify the workflow across a team. Expression Blend 3 is tackling this problem and allowing UX specialists to apply, experiment, and finesse the application’s interaction model in a more obvious and visual way—without having to resort to code for even the smallest change. This is being achieved through a powerful addition to Expression Blend called Behaviors. 阅读全文…
I was investigating a Silverlight Toolkit bug this morning and got into a spirited discussion aboutStoryboard behavior with Jafar. We disagreed on a couple of points, so I [grudgingly 
] coded up a quick test application to help sort things out. Unfortunately, it turns out that the situation is a little weirder than either of us realized… I knew I’d never be able to remember the specifics, so I’m documenting my findings here for everyone’s benefit.
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I think it is fair to say that interest in Silverlight is wicked-high.
I’ve seen quite a few slideshow controls for Silverlight. Mostly they are either retemplated listboxes (buying an easy transition effect for free) or custom controls. I’d like to see how the DomainUpDown control can be used to do a slide show. This post also takes a more indepth look at TransitioningContentControl and along the way shows how to retemplate and inherit/extend other controls.
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