Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2008 -- #404

In this issue: Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Jeff Weber, and Jesse Liberty.

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Tim Heuer brings back the Watermarked Textbox and has everything you need downloadable under MS-Pl

Jeff Prosise is probably up to Number 4, but it was 3 when I stopped yesterday... this is about loading assemblies on demand and he's taken the demo no MSDN and made it work in a more general case... very useful!

Ok, even if you aren't interested in figuring out how all this works, you HAVE to go take a look at Jeff Weber's demo he has for this... holy crap... makes my head hurt thinking that HE knows how it works... lol

It Ain't You, Babe… A Not-a-bug bug in DataGrid

Jesse Liberty describes a

~~bug~~ feature in the Silverlight Datagrid control that has caused some consternation.

Sizing in Silverlight – Pixels and Stars

Jesse also has an interesting article up on how and when proportional sizing works in layouts... all good!

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