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Turn your photos into a pivot collection with PhotoPivot
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged photos, Pivot, PivotViewer, silverlight, silverlight controls, Silverlight tips and tricks, utility on August 17, 2010 | 23 Comments »
XPath support in Silverlight 4 + XPathPad
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged silverlight, Silverlight 4, Silverlight tips and tricks, tool, Xml Tool, XPath on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Silverlight 4 now has built in support for XPaths! Check out the new XPathPad tool to help test XPaths against any Xml document.
SuperStackPanel = Grid + StackPanel
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged grid, silverlight, silverlight controls, stackpanel, tool, xaml on February 25, 2010 | 10 Comments »
StackPanels are great, but missing the ability to stretch children to fit. Grids accomplish the job but are overkill and take more Xaml to make work. SuperStackPanel is a lightweight and simple to use.
MIX 10K contest entry: MyPadlock
Posted in Programming Tools, tagged free password manager, mix 10k contest, mypadlock, Programming Tools, silverlight on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by MyPadlock Password Manager: a simple, secure, and free password manager, here’s a fun little Silverlight web application for the MIX 10K contest that allows you to “lock” and encrypt your data behind a password.
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 »
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, [...]
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 [...]
Silverlight named color viewer
Posted in Programming Tools, tagged Programming Tools, silverlight, tool, utility on December 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I always try to use named colors whenever I can because it makes your Xaml much easier to read! Who knows what color #1A37C5 is? Okay, so maybe some of you can “see into the matrix” but I’d much rather see something like “DarkBlue”. It’s also easier to write because you VS gives you IntelliType [...]
Silverlight GroupBox control
Posted in Programming Tools, Silverlight tips and tricks, tagged silverlight, silverlight controls on November 26, 2008 | 49 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
