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This blog post demonstrates how Silvelight 3's WriteableBitmap can be used to create a UserControl that renders the content of any other Framework Element as a reflection with an animated ripple effect.
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Today, Philipp Sumi and I and are proud to announce the release of SLF - the Simple Logging Facade.
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Microsoft have recently submitted US patent application 20090282325, entitled Sparklines in the Grid.
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This post looks at the speed of development of the two leading RIA frameworks, Silverlight and Flex, giving unequivocal proof that Silverlight is better than Flex ... !
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Today's blog post is a couple of very simple utility methods that I have found myself using again and again ...
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This blog post describes a technique for specifying WPF / Silverlight Dependency Properties declaritively via attributes
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The construction of a ViewModel is often seen as the standard technique for solving binding problems within WPF and Silverlight.
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Yesterday myself and Gary Scott (our MD) went down to London for the Silverlight 3 UK launch event.
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Text rendering has been a problem for both Silverlight and WPF for a while. This blog post looks at ClearType in Silverlight v3 and compares it to WPF and WinForms text rendering.
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A brief article on the launch of Silverlight 3 and why the interest in Silverlight is eclipsing that of WPF.
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This blog posts describes a technique for associating multiple bindings with a single dependency property within Silverlight applications.
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I must admit that the title of this post is not entirely clear, however I couldn't find a way to sum up the content in one short sentence, so we'll dive straight into an example.
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A few night ago I was working on a Siverlight control which renders some quite complex Paths, the geometry of which is determined from a number of dependency properties.
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With Silverlight, Panels do not clip their contents by default.
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Last month was a busy one for me - I wrote quite a few blog posts, with the Silverlight ones proving very popular, and added new article posted to codeproject.
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I have just finished a new article on CodeProject - Generate WPF and Silverlight Dependency Properties using T4 Templates
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In my previous blog post I described a method for solving the commonly faced problem of binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data, the form of which is not know at compile time.
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This post demonstrates a technique for binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data, the structure of which is not know at compile-time ...
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An oddness in default behaviour that can throw those new to Flex Charting is that segments in charts that should correspond to a data point are missing.
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This blog details a technique for generating Silverlight dependency properties from an XML file via a T4 template.

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