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Silverlight 4 Quick Tip: Styling application

Silverlight 4 supports default styles. Default styles are styles with TargetType, but without x:Key property set. Those styles will be applied to all controls from corresponding type. The sample of default (also sometime called anonymous) style: < Style TargetType ="Button"> < Setter Property ="Margin" Value ="5"/> < Setter Property ="Width" Value ="100"/> < Setter Property ="Height" Value ="25"/> < Setter...

Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #10: Styling Improvements

Silverlight 3 bring long-awaited improvements in styling mechanism: “BasedOn” mechanism, Merged Resource Dictionaries and eliminates “write once” style setting behavior. Let’s see those features. BasedOn Styles can be “derived” from one another. Perfect for cascading/inheriting styles. Let’s define style for a… Button (well, in demos it is always a Button, TextBox, etc. ;)) < Style x : Key ="BaseButtonStyle" TargetType ="ButtonBase"> < Setter Property ="Width"...

What’s new in Silverlight 3 Beta 1?

As just announced at MIX09 keynotes, new version of Silverlight will hit our machines – this time it will be Silverlight 3 Beta 1. Here is the short list of what’s new in there: Go offline with your application: Silverlight 3 provides all the features you need to store your application on your users machine, and then work against their data in the your isolated cache or under their MyDocuments. Your application can ask the user if they want to add a link to your application on their desktop or start...

Silverlight 2 Metro Training Event in Mumbai

I’m doing a Silverlight 2 Training for MS Metro program in Mumbai. Thanks for all participants in this event. Hope you enjoyed the course as much as I enjoyed doing it. As promised the selected samples from this event could be found here . Samples updated…   Thanks and Enjoy the samples Alex