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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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The number of frustrating decisions in Flex's charting API is minimal, but high up on my list is a strange decision that prevents developers from accessing information that is frequently desirable for custom data tips in stacked area, bar and column charts.
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Silverlight is moving fast. Really fast.
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Less than 24 hours ago Microsoft's MIX09 conference kicked of in Las Vegas with Silverlight 3 taking centre stage.
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When I first encountered WPF I was really impressed by its styling and templating features which are more powerful than anything else I had previously seen for desktop software development.
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The ability to allow a user to save a Flex chart, or in fact any Flex UI component, as an image has popped up on my radar several times over the last few years.
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In my previous post I demonstrated how an the WPF ElementName style binding can be emulated with Silverlight via an attached behaviour.
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As a relative newcomer to Silverlight I was happily greeted by the warm feeling of familiarity when I started developing.
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OK, the title of this blog post is not very snappy, but it is not an easy problem to describe in a few short words.
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This blog post describes how to add a location crosshair to your Silverlight charts.
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Over the weekend Sacha published a new article on codeproject, Total View Validation (does Sacha ever sleep?).
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In my recent codeproject article on the DataGrid I described a number of techniques for handling the updates to DataTables which are bound to the grid.
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I have answered a few forum posts about the WPF transforms recently, mostly regarding confusion between RenderTransform and LayoutTransform.

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