Silverlight RC0 ComboBox Woes

At various times during the execution of your Silverlight application you may run into a mysterious issue with comboboxes. At one point the Content of the combobox's SelectedItem property becomes null. And yet the value is still there. I knew the value wa...

XAML

0 comments :: blogged 10/13/2008



WPF animation in code

xaml icon I was working on a project where I wanted transitions when a user navigated from one screen to the next. I was familiar with creating animations in Microsoft Expression Blend, so I ...

Programming XAML Animation

0 comments :: blogged 8/6/2008



WPF Binding Modes

If you're like me who was only a casual user of the binding process prior to WPF, you would bind a control to some data and call it a day. It was either bound or it wasn't. Well there is a little more to it than that and we'll see why that is a good thing....

XAML

1 comments :: blogged 7/1/2008



Binding to instance properties

Binding in WPF is a powerful and useful way to populate controls. You can bind to many different types of data sources in many different ways. One way that I am very comfortable with is using a normalized relation database like SQL, pulling data out an...

Programming XAML

1 comments :: blogged 6/23/2008



Getting started with XAML

firefoxThe learning curve for WPF an XAML is steeper than Microsoft might have you believe.This is largely because developers used to coding up a Windows Forms interface primarily worked with a built ...

XAML Programming

1 comments :: blogged 4/24/2008



XAMLer Introduction

This is a website dedicated to all things Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). It is an extensible markup language designed specifically to describe a user interface to the compiler. It is used in such technologies as Windows Presentation Foundat...

XAMLer Programming XAML

1 comments :: blogged 4/15/2008