June 2010 Entries
Since today XamlResource.com is officially in beta. Its purpose is to create a platform to find and share resources for Silverlight and WPF, resources in the form of Xaml. Have a look around and if you run into issues, please let us know at xaml@hotmail.nl. Beta 1: In Beta 1 only a few of the final categories are supported: Colors; Resources of type SolidColorBrush Gradients; Resources of type GradientBrush Color sets; 2 to 5 resources of type SolidColorBrush Vectors; Resources of type StreamGeometry...
Intro Today I would like to explain something about customizing the window chrome in Silverlight 4 OOB. For an example of customizing the window have a look at my open source demo application SilverAmp which is available on http://SilverAmp.CodePlex.com. Choosing style Running the application without the default window chrome requires running out-of-browser with elevated trust. How to set elevated trust is explained in this earlier post. To set the window style, go to the Out-Of-Browser settings...
Intro This is the second article in a series of small articles about what is new in Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4. The series is build around a open source demo application SilverAmp which is available on http://SilverAmp.CodePlex.com. Setting elevated trust A number of new features in Silverlight 4 require more permission, to gain access to the local file system for example. The elevated trust feature is only in available when running outside the browser. To enable elevated trust right click...
Intro This is the first in a series of small articles about what is new in Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4. The series is build around a open source demo application SilverAmp which is available on http://SilverAmp.CodePlex.com. MVVM Project and Item Templates Expression Blend has got a new project template to get started with a Model-View-ViewModel project easily. The template provides you with a View and a ViewModel bound together. It also adds the ViewModel to the SampleData of your project....