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Here are a few of the Visual Studio C# code snippets that we use on the Silverlight team when building controls and apps. Download a zip (7 KB) of them all and extract them into your Snippets folder, which is in your Documents folder: Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets\. These also work with ... 10 Feb 2010
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I’ve seen many ways of grouping C# source over the years, but one that I never fully appreciated as being disgusting until this year was grouping like PMEs: public methods, protected methods, etc. Sure, many source formatting guidelines (and perhaps even default StyleCop settings) suggest this grouping style. But, tell me: what is useful about ... 9 Dec 2009
Code coverage note: this feature was unfortunately cut due to regressions in dependencies. Also, automated closing of the browser has issues in November and we are hoping to address in the future. Sorry for the troubles. The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release ... 20 Nov 2009
The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps. 19 Nov 2009
BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit. 19 Nov 2009
The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps. 19 Nov 2009
It’s now even easier to get started with the Silverlight Toolkit, an excellent complement to your Silverlight development environment. The latest Silverlight 3 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is now available on the Web PI. It is now the recommended way of getting the toolkit. Here’s a link to the installer, if you don’t already ... 4 Nov 2009
Here's a simple tool that I use to round-trip Silverlight solutions and projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta. Use it at your own risk, but enjoy! 22 Oct 2009
Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit. 20 Oct 2009
The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls. 19 Oct 2009
After using the Starbucks mobile card app for iPhone, I set out to create similar 2D barcodes in Silverlight 3. 30 Sep 2009
If you’re using existing imaging libraries with your Silverlight applications, they often represent a Color from the System.Drawing world in the full framework as an integer. An ARGB value is a 32-bit integer with the byte-ordering of AARRGGBB. Using some simple bit shifts and an extension method, you can have this functionality in Silverlight as ... 23 Sep 2009
The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit. 14 Sep 2009
Here's an initial set of guidelines for building Silverlight custom controls. The first of hopefully many more posts. 26 Aug 2009
Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3. 26 Aug 2009
Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, I’d like to take a moment to revisit the highlighting AutoCompleteBox control that I blogged about back in November of ‘08, and again earlier this year, thanks to tooling improvements: Expression Blend 3 is out, and the Visual Studio 2008 tools have changed as well. There are new project ... 26 Aug 2009
Two weeks ago, I posted the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework online for folks looking for updated bits. Of course, the real gem is the Silverlight 3 version. Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, you should definitely look at moving forward to this great new version. Download the binaries I’ve updated ... 16 Jul 2009
Here are two nice posts by Jimmy Schementi, one showing simple testing in Python, the other using IronRuby to actually test C# apps! 8 Jul 2009
If you're looking to learn more about Silverlight unit testing, here are 3 screencasts of interest. 1 Jul 2009
Just posting a general update here, hopefully this isn’t syndicated on the Silverlight site or anything . I am sorry that all has been quiet on the blog front for a while, as summer rolls around we always find a way to keep busy with a strong set of work items, feature work, and sunshine ... 1 Jul 2009
If you're doing Silverlight 2 development with the unit test framework, you might want to check out the latest release that includes bug fixes and a few small new features. 1 Jul 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit's chart controls have made their way into the WPF Toolkit! More details on David's blog. 29 Jun 2009
I’m pleased to announce that the Silverlight Unit Test Framework received honorable mention at the Microsoft Engineering Excellence awards ceremony this evening. It’s great having the tool recognized as an important contribution to not only the success of Silverlight, but also to the success of so many development and test partners, both inside and outside ... 1 Jun 2009
We're considering simplifying the AutoCompleteBox API be removing a few rarely used events, and would love to get some feedback from scenarios this might impact. 30 Apr 2009
As we ready the next release of the AutoCompleteBox control for Silverlight, I'd love to get the community's input on API names, API experience, and any suggestions before we "lock down" the control. 6 Apr 2009
This post contains the sample app and control source code from Jeff Wilcox's MIX '09 talk, Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF. 3 Apr 2009
Thanks to the Silverlight 3 Beta, the AutoCompleteBox can become a highlighting auto complete control even easier! 24 Mar 2009
The AutoCompleteBox control received some data binding improvements and can now be found in the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK. 24 Mar 2009
Although the Silverlight Tools don't have a multi-targeting story, you can build Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine. Here's information on how we do this within the Silverlight Toolkit team. 23 Mar 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit's March 2009 release is out, now with an installation experience that adds controls to the Visual Studio and Expression Blend toolbox, and improves the design experience. 23 Mar 2009
Check out my Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF talk from MIX '09. Yeah, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there! 22 Mar 2009
A control for Gravatars that works in Silverlight 2 and WPF. Download contains binaries and full open source code. 9 Mar 2009
Hi, Just some quick administrivia… Gravatar and Identicon support in comments I’ve updated my blog’s theme this weekend to support Gravatars. These are nice, and as long as you post using your e-mail address (that isn’t shared with anyone, don’t worry), a hash algorithm is used to retrieve your central avatar from Gravatar. A simple ... 8 Mar 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit contains implicit style management features that let you create a nice theme – buttons, checkboxes, you name it – and have it automatically applied to an application. Nearly half a year ago, I worked with Mehdi to create a rather simple, but functional, tool prototype for working with Xaml theme files and ... 8 Mar 2009
If you're headed to MIX'09, there are some great talks available on the Silverlight Toolkit, Silverlight controls, rich Internet applications, and more... 7 Mar 2009
A discussion about the asynchronous, on-the-UI thread test features and methods found in the Silverlight unit test framework, along with some history. 4 Mar 2009
In the interest of offloading my dedicated web server, and experimenting with the latest in distributed computing and storage, I find myself switching between different web file storage technologies quite often. The availability of distributed content delivery network (CDN)-like services for files to developers has only just started to begin. S3 was a first step; ... 17 Feb 2009
A few days ago I mentioned that I’ve been using an SSD drive in my desktop workstation at home, with pretty great success. The Intel X25-M is where it is at – give it another half year for the prices to become reasonable and I bet you’ll see more folks adopting it. Eric Hexter was ... 16 Feb 2009
Earlier this week, Jesse Liberty posted some great tips for providing the Silverlight Toolkit team the right amount of information to help solve your issues. On the team, we’re all out there looking and responding to the feedback – so you’re often going to get a response by the actual developer or designer that created ... 12 Feb 2009
Visual Studio 2008 Team System installed in 3 minutes. Thank you Intel! I’ve been hearing so much about the higher-end Solid State Disks that are out there on the market. Like a virus, it is slowly infecting more and more people. This past week, I made the jump and picked up an Intel X25-M 80GB ... 11 Feb 2009
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