Just a quick code hit I’ve been meaning to blog about … I’ve seen a lot of examples that implement the  PropertyChanged event handler of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Most of them are demonstrating how to deal with data binding (including my examples) and most of them simply repeat the c

I am notorious for letting my thoughts get ahead of my typing. I’ll start typing something and the words will come flying out. usually I’ll start typing the next word before I finish with the previous word. That usually results in sentences like this: Al lo fth ecoo lkid sus eSilverlight. Tran

Here’s a tiny little nugget from my upcoming book. There are always concepts that are just natively drilled into me yet they don’t flow smoothly when I try to explain them. For example take the Silverlight 2 binding modes. You have OneTime, OneWay and TwoWay as options. OneWay is the default and man

TechSmith [http://www.techsmith.com/] makes 2 of my favorite applications: SnagIt [http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp] and Camtasia [http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp]. SnagIt 9 was just released this week and it has some great new features. You can check out the full story on the new

I created a simple user control using the Popup control as a starting point. The end result is a nice little user control that can be used as a popup control to display a message. It has only 1 button on it (an OK button that closes the popup control). I’ll outline the basic steps of creating the