Mike Ormond wrote the article “Silverlight No Selection ListBox and ViewBox” , which is again dedicated to his Twitfeed Silverlight application. He needed to resolve four things – scaling the ListBox with a ViewBox, accessing individual ListBox items, disabling selection, and he also wanted horizontal ListBox.
Shawn Oster has posted about
working with units of measure in a NumericUpDown. This is one of Shawn’s favorite controls released with the Silverlight Toolkit and according to him you may easily extend it to provide some great user experiences.
Jeff Handley has a post named “
Custom Controls Everywhere – In XAML”. If you are not familiar with Jeff’s Custom Controls Everywhere concept, here you’ll find some of his posts on the subject. According to him Custom Controls Everywhere will never hurt you, it can only help you.
In the Deep Zoom blog there is a reference to a project of Mark Dawson - a
Silverlight viewer for Photosynth. It uses Deep Zoom when you zoom deeply into images or in 2-D layout.
Alexey Zakharov wrote
a Silverlight tip about splash screen issues. Many people think that they cannot use layout controls (grid, stackpanel etc) because silverlight splash screen is managed with JavaScript. But Alexey found that this is a total delusion.
If you wonder why
Generic.xaml doesn’t work we suggest you to read the article of Nigel Sampson and learn how to fix that problem.
Koen Zwikstra announces that he quits his job and founds his own company
First Floor Software. First Floor Software will develop various Silverlight related products, such as Silverlight Spy. Koen will also help companies build their Silverlight applications.
Bart Czernicki has dedicated two of his articles to the future release of Silverlight 3. In
Part 1 of the article, he looks at what has been announced so far and in Part 2, he will take a stab at some educated guesses as to what Silverlight 3 will include. At the moment only the first part is available so hurry up and read what they can predict about SL3. And there is another article of Bart’s that deserves your attention. It is focused on
understanding WCF transfer security visually.
Jonathan van de Veen solves the problem with
storing Silverlight DataGrid settings. He found a way to store the information for his users and restore the settings whenever the user comes back.