ASP.NET allows you to get at some great information about the client and the server via the HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables collection. Likewise, Silverlight allows you to get at a few local variables of its own through the System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.BrowserInformation object. But, to use these variables we often need to know what kind of values to expect. For example, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Silverlight BrowserInfo and ASP.NET ServerVariables Viewer
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Azure, BrowserInformation, Programming Tools, ServerVariables, silverlight, tool, utility on January 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reusable Silverlight border control with a header
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged Border control, Header, Partial Rectangle, silverlight, silverlight controls on January 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Here’s a fun and useful UI control I suspect many developers out there are writing over and over again. It’s essentially a border control with an independent autosizing header. It’s not included in the framework, toolkit, or any of the open source libraries that I’ve seen and I’ve needed it myself on more than one occasion [...]