I’ve been working on fine tuning a Silverlight progress control for an article with Simple-Talk.com. Along the way I wanted to create a background that dims the entire page while the progress control is up and running. Easy stuff … just stick it in a Grid panel with HorizontalAlignment and VerticalA
If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated … because sometimes Visual Studio cannot even display the p
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd882515.aspx]My Data Points column in the June 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd882515.aspx]. In this issue I demonstrate how to build an out of browser application using Silverlight 3 and demonstrate ho
This is not the first time I have hit this issue, and it has been documented by people like Julie Lerman … but for my own sake I decided to blog about it in case I hit it again. It seems like I run into this issue just about the time I forget how to resolve it :) The problem sometimes occurs with t
Check out this post by Unni [http://blogs.msdn.com/unnir/archive/2009/05/22/the-blend-3-asset-library.aspx] (Program Manager with the Blend team). It’s a visual thing, yes, but it makes it easier to find the items in Blend. I’ll come clean right now … several times I have not been able to find an a
