Sometimes the value you want to display needs to be transformed from the original data before being bound to a XAML element. For instance, formatting a telephone number, or adding brackets to a negative balance on an account. To accomplish this task a Value Converter is used. A Value Converter is simply...
Look Ma! WPF can look like Windows Forms too! WPF contains many similar controls that you will find in your Windows Forms toolbox. If you really wanted your app to look and feel like Windows Forms, it is quite possible... but why? There are other tools and techniques to provide users (and developers...
XAML is an extremely powerful markup tool. A less known fact is that it is possible to instantiate instances of your classes directly in markup. This is useful in more than one way it allows you to define sample data for use in your application without reliance on external data sources. it gives you...
There's another conference that will allow you to benefit from some of the content that is being presented at PDC. So if you missed out on PDC you won't want to miss out on this. The conference will be hosted in 12 cities across the U.S. between December '08 and February '09. The URL for the conference...
Today Silverlight 2 was released, let the excitement start! Here are the resources that you'll need to get going: Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Release Candidate 1 Service Pack 1 for Expression Blend 2 Deep Zoom Composer Still waiting on the drop for the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK...
Recently I started playing around with the creation of a Silverlight application of C#; leaving my comfort zone of doing Silverlight development solely in IronRuby. The project that I decided to start is an application that is similar to the famous " Wheel of Lunch ", which will essentially...
This is a blog post that will be updated over time. It's intention is to collect the best IronRuby resources on the web, so feel free to leave a comment and let me know of additional resources you would like to see listed here. http://www.ironruby.net - in particular the Frequently asked questions section...
I was tagged by Josh Holmes in his Inspired By blog post. My reply to this tag is a long time coming. This is due to the fact that there is just so many people in the developer community that truly inspire me. I am inspired by people that give back to the developer community. The people that openly share...
The Ann Arbor Give Camp is a coding for charity event organized by Jennifer Marsman , Patrick Steele , John Hopkins , Todd Bohlen, Bill Wagner , and Kristina Jones. Essentially it's an event that allows software developers and designers to join forces to develop software and websites for charitable organizations...
This blog post is in response to Contribupendence Day as created by Jeff Blankenburg at Microsoft. The idea behind Contribupendence day is to acknowledge 5 people you know that are respected, appreciated and talented and provide them with internet recommendations. I chose LinkedIn as my social network...