Here’s a good looking, light-weight GroupBox control for Silverlight 2 RTW. Download source code for VB.NET Download source code for C# Download the binary According to Shawn Burke on the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit Team, “groupbox is on the list but not in this control set“ So until then, here’s a fully functional and very simple [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Silverlight GroupBox control
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged silverlight, silverlight controls on November 26, 2008 | 49 Comments »
GotFocus and LostFocus events on Silverlight containers
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged GotFocus, LostFocus on November 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Try to trap for the focus changed events (GotFocus and LostFocus) in Silverlight in a container control; I dare you! You’ll quickly realize that all the GotFocus and LostFocus events of all the children controls and their children controls fire on the container. This is of course due to event bubbling (which is a good [...]
Xml Formatter Tool
Posted in Programming Tools, tagged Add new tag, Programming Tools, Xml indenting, Xml Tool on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This tool provides automatic formatting for your xml document by properly indenting nested nodes with tab characters. Simply type in the xml to format or import and xml file press a button and see your perfectly formatted xml. This tool is a really useful for making your xml more readable. Check it out and bookmark [...]
Animate collapsing a Grid column or row in Silverlight
Posted in Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged silverlight, Silverlight tips and tricks on November 8, 2008 | 17 Comments »
In Silverlight applications practically everything can be animated to provide visually pleasing transitions between changes in your application or web page. When you hide something that is currently visible, why have it just disappear when you can make it fade away or slide off to the edge of the page? Or both? Silverlight makes these [...]
Template Repeater Tool
Posted in Programming Tools, tagged Programming Tools, repeater, silverlight, template, tool, utility on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Need a way to duplicate a chunk of text for each variable in a list? This tool will save you time and soar wrists by letting you create a template and a list of variables and merge the two to get a repeated chunk of text with variables injected into each iteration. Click To Run [...]
