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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Silverlight Menu4U - CodeProject

Introduction to Article

Last year I introduced an article presenting Silverlight Menu, which was an attempt to create a useful control for the community. Despite my efforts to enhance the control with nice features, the feedbacks I received usually complained about the lack of more flexible customization, such as more robust templating, styling and commanding.
Then the time for the new Silverlight Menu 4U has come. After browsing through the old code for some time (to evaluate if I could reuse it), I realized how monolithic the code was. The menu levels were made of stack panels instead of list boxes, and it would require painful efforts to make it flexible. Then I decided to rewrite it from scratch, and here are the results.
In this article I will present you two main walkthroughs: first, and more important, is the guide for Silverlight Menu 4U users, where I'll explain how to implement different kinds of menus, from basic to advanced usage. The second part will approach the making of the control, dissecting its parts and showing how and why they were made.

Silverlight Menu4U - CodeProject

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications - CodeProject

Introduction to article

In the development of business websites, we have encountered some hurdles in the use of Silverlight, in particular using the drag and drop functionality that was not easily solved by a quick search of the internet. There are many examples of using Silverlight drag and drop with file system utilities, but how does it work if you want to have drag and drop in your business application where the objects come from your database instead of a file system? All the examples we found ignore the need for a business application to know exactly what moved and from where and the need to update the database with the information that changed.
This article presents the solution we came up with to solve the problem of knowing which object was moved and details about that object. Due to the extensive functionality of Silverlight, there are probably other ways to solve this problem.

Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications - CodeProject

Sunday, May 15, 2011

A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys - CodeProject

Image via WikipediaHere is a gift from Kunal_Chowdhury to all of us who use Expression Blend 4!

A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys - CodeProject

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend - CodeProject

Image via WikipediaIntroduction to Article:

Do you work with Child Window in Silverlight and want to customize the look & feel to match with your application UI? Then this post will help you to understand the process. I am going to discuss with you the customization steps in detail, so that, next time when you want to modify your Child Window UI, you will find it very useful.

In this article, I will guide you through the steps of customization with the help of a sample application. We will need Microsoft Expression Blend for the full customization. Read the complete article to learn about it.

Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend - CodeProject

Monday, September 27, 2010

Expression Blendable Silverlight View Model Communication - CodeProject

Easily implement two-way communication between Master and Child View Models that works with Microsoft Expression Blend

Expression Blendable Silverlight View Model Communication - CodeProject

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Styling a TreeView in Silverlight 3 and Blend 3

Monday, September 13, 2010

How to add mockup controls to your Expression Blend library - Expression Blend and Design - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

In learning Expression Blend 4 + Sketchflow one of my colleagues sent me a project in which mockup controls are being used. Unfortunately i found out that they are not available by default and you have to enable them. This blog post explains how to do that, just follow the link below.

How to add mockup controls to your Expression Blend library - Expression Blend and Design - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Training | Microsoft Expression Blend | Microsoft® Expression®

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What will you be doing in 5 days?

Our guided training will have you designing and developing innovative user interfaces on the world's leading creative and development suite, Microsoft Expression.