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• Silverlight themes 101 - Resource Dictionary Visual Studio Item Template

  Thought that i would share this simple item template that I created for Silverlight. In a previous post about Silverlight themes I was getting a little frustrated that there is no Item template in VS for Silverlight Resource Dictionaries. So I created Read More... Posted 05 November 2008 11:24 by Richard.Griffin | 2 Comments

• Silverlight Themes 101

  With the recent public release of the Silverlight Toolkit one of the interesting features has to be the Theming. There has been a number of cool posts about theming and Jonas has a great post about how to leverage existing themes that have already be Read More... Posted 04 November 2008 14:41 by Richard.Griffin | 3 Comments Filed under: .net, Silverlight

• tech-ed Barcelona 2008 Presentation overview

  So the count down begins for the kick off to tech-ed Barcelona 2008 and my third time at the event presenting so really excited about next week. Tech-ed is always one of the better organised events that I go to and the country drinks are always fun to Read More... Posted 03 November 2008 17:41 by Richard.Griffin | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Del.icio.us Silverlight Library, Tag Clouds and Dependency Injection

  Last year I built a couple of WPF tag cloud applications that hooked up to my del.icio.us account and displayed the data using different visualisations which included a tag cloud in a variety of different flavours and I also used the Time Line Panel from Read More... Posted 07 August 2008 17:00 by Richard.Griffin | 2 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Wordle - text clouds

  If you have not been over to Wordle then it's definitely worth checking out. Personally I really like the tag cloud metaphor as the information that I am looking for seems to be more obvious than scrolling through a long list of information, it's especially Read More... Posted 30 July 2008 09:35 by Richard.Griffin | 0 Comments Filed under: Musings

• Silverlight Tweening Adventures with Baby Smash!

  Before starting out on my tweening adventures I have to admit too being complete tweening newbie. On previous WPF and Silverlight projects animations were rolled from scratch to provide the desired responses to changes in the applications state. With Read More... Posted 23 July 2008 15:32 by Richard.Griffin | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Silverlight Nuggets

  If like me you are following the Silverlight trail, you are more than likely to be reading Silverlight Cream and the Silverlight Show and their daily posts which provide a great way to stay on top of the daily Silverlight news. Not only do I subscribe Read More... Posted 15 July 2008 09:53 by Richard.Griffin | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Skinning Controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Introducing the TabControl, TabPanel and TabItem

  With the new release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 came a new drop of controls that allow the designer and developer to build tabbed content that we have become used to, the TabControl, TabPanel and TabItem don't reside in the standard Silverlight Controls Read More... Posted 09 July 2008 18:09 by Richard.Griffin | 3 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Skinning Controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

  With the new release of Beta 2 and Blend skinning of Silverlight controls has improved dramatically. Rather than hand cranking these due to no support at all in the previous version of Blend, you can now change templates and styles from within Blend rather Read More... Posted 24 June 2008 13:22 by Richard.Griffin | 7 Comments Filed under: .net, WPF, Silverlight

• Upgrading from Silverlight Beta 1 to Beta 2

  Felix and I have been presenting around Europe at the Remix Essentials events giving away a white labelled Silverlight mashup. Being on the Silverlight TAP I have been trying to keep the project up to date with the latest drops but fell behind. So while Read More... Posted 13 June 2008 14:42 by Richard.Griffin | 6 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Getting ready for Mix07

  Less than 24 hours to go and I will be on my way to Vegas for Mix07 . Last year Mix06 was a great success and after watching the channel 9 video "Mixin' it up with Beth and Ray" this year is going to be bigger and better. Unlike other Microsoft conferences Read More... Posted 27 April 2007 09:33 by Richard.Griffin | 2 Comments Filed under: Musings, .net, Mix, Silverlight

• Converting Dashboard Widgets to Sidebar Gadgets

  Jamie and I were chatting yesterday morning about Vista Sidebar Gadgets when he sent me a link to the Sidebar Gadget Development MSDN Forum where chemgirl had posted a new thread " Can someone make a gadget for us chemistry students ". I read the post Read More... Posted 20 March 2007 10:40 by Richard.Griffin | 7 Comments Filed under: Musings, .net, Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget, Vista, Silverlight Attachment(s): theperiodictable.zip

• WATiN Recorder v 0.1 Released

  It has taken a little longer than I first anticipated releasing the WATiN Recorder, so please except my humble apologies for this. When I first scratched this itch I had no idea that so many people out there would be interested in using the recorder. Read More... Posted 13 March 2007 17:11 by Richard.Griffin | 26 Comments Filed under: .net, WATiN

• WPF Commands a scenic tour part I

  WPF Commands provides a new method for decoupling UI events, the handling of these events and also how you can register multiple UI elements for these defined events. When I first came across commands they immediately stood out from the crowd as one of Read More... Posted 23 February 2007 15:47 by Richard.Griffin | 8 Comments Filed under: .net, WPF, Silverlight

• Vista Sidebar Gadget resources

  With the launch of Windows Vista last week, I thought that it would be helpful to put together a list of resources that I have been using to develop Vista Sidebar Gadgets for MSN UK. Stuart has also posted a couple of great articles on Sidebar Gadgets Read More... Posted 05 February 2007 21:48 by Richard.Griffin | 11 Comments Filed under: .net, Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget, Vista, Silverlight