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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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The WPF DataGrid is a very flexible tool, however in its current state certain simple tasks can prove to be rather tricky.
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In a recent post on his blog Josh Smith described a technique for providing more meaningful error messages when the type conversion process fails within the binding framework.
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In my opinion the lack of decent design-time tool support is currently hampering the adoption of WPF, that and the relatively small number of controls available to the developer out-of-the-box.
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I am currently very interested in the new WPF DataGrid which was released on codeplex recently.
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Welcome to my blog, Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in WPF. This page gives a little background on myself and the blog.

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