Sunday, January 23, 2011

Clipping to Bounds with Geometries and Attached Behaviors

Clipping to Bounds with Geometries and Attached Behaviors

Clipping to Bounds with Geometries and Attached Behaviors

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 12:05 PM PST

While working on my Radar control , I found that I had the need to clip the contents of a rectangular Panel by a bounding ellipse. In Silverlight, that's a very trivial task: < Canvas Background ="DarkBlue" Width ="100" Height ="100" > < Canvas...( read more )...(read more)

WP7 Contrib – Customising the DateTime Picker

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:45 AM PST

As you may already be aware there are two controls in the WP7 toolkit that provide the standard interactions and UI for selecting time and a date. Personally these are 2 of my favourite controls mainly due to the transitions and simple UI. However….....( read more )...(read more)

“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me Monday

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 11:31 AM PST

Tomorrow (Monday Jan 24th) I'm doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 3:00pm to 4:30pm (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting.  We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics.  Any topic is fair game: technical, strategy, community, college basketball, etc. You can learn more and register to attend the online event for free here . I'll update this post with a download link to a recorded audio version of the talk after the event is over. Hope to get a chance to chat with some of you there! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging...(read more)

3-Screen Coding Is Here: Portable Library Tools allow you to target multiple .NET platforms with one binary!

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 06:07 PM PST

Earlier this week, we released the Portable Library Tools CTP .  You'll need to install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta first, then it's a quick install on top of that. What is it? Back at PDC in October, I did a PDC talk called 3-Screen Coding: Sharing Code Between Windows Phone, Silverlight, and .NET .  If you want to spend some time to get the full scoop on what the Portable Library Tools are all about, you watch it online by clicking here . But if you don't have time for that, the basic idea is as follows: A Portable Library is a DLL that will run compatibly across a set of .NET platforms.  The set of platforms currently supported for this CTP are .NET 4, Windows Phone 7, Silverlight 4, and XNA Framework 4.0 for XBox 360.  The Portable...(read more)

WP7 Contrib – we made it!

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:41 AM PST

All I can say is that Ollie and myself are super excited that after a number of months we have finally brought toghether all bits and shaped them into something that we are ready to release. We are very much at the start of this journey with a long road...( read more )...(read more)

Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone - 23 January 2011

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:57 AM PST

Today, we have 8 news items of various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter...( read more )...(read more)

Giveaway: Win DotNetBar for Silverlight controls worth $219 FREE

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:28 PM PST

Recently I explored DotNetBar for Silverlight which is a 3rd Party library by DevComponents. I wrote two articles explaining Ribbon Controls for Silverlight from the DotNetBar library. It's amazing and simple to use. I have my own license of that Library...( read more )...(read more)

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 4 (Jan 22, 2010)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:10 AM PST

Greetings!! The 4th issue of The Visual C++ Weekly is out there. This issue starts with an article due to C++ MVP Marc Gregoire on an extension that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta brings to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to allow animations. A book of techniques in reengineering patterns for object-oriented applications is available for download by its authors. C++ MVP Giovanni Dicanio reveals a cost-efficient way to deal with bidimensional matrices. Gus Class (Windows Development) shows how he builds VC projects from the command prompt. And you'll find more articles in the current issue of The Visual C++ Weekly.

Notifyting the ViewModel when a WP7 PivotItem is displayed

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 06:49 PM PST

While trying to reduce the loading time for our SurfCube 3D Browser app , I realized that loading a 100 or so history items to a ViewModel property directly bound to the UI may not be the best idea. It takes up a long time (like 0.5 seconds) to render...( read more )...(read more)
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