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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-handle-thickness/ ] Yesterday, we spoke about type converters . We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we’ll create more complicated converter, that very missing in Silverlight – ThicknessConverter. During the post, I also explain about tokenizing values in Silverlight What is Thickness ? What is thickness in Silverlight? It’s <Border BorderThickness=”6”/> or...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/ ] Today, I want to start new tag - “ Work process ”. Here I’m going to publish partial classes, fixes, small utilities, I’m building for myself or clients to help in work process. I’ll give an example : currently, I’m working on BiDi support for Silverlight 2.0 (beta 2 to RTM). During the work process, I need to write different classes...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-visual-tree-investigation/ ] Wait a moment. Silverlight has Visual and Logical Trees as well as WPF? Not exactly. The design more similar to how it was in WinForms (Parent-Child relationship). But dev team made all possible to make it syntactically similar to WPF. Let’s start Challenge : Find and hold references to all element, contains text. Solution : Recursive VisualTreeHelper...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/quick-silverlight-tip-how-to-access-html-dom-from-silverlight-and-silverlight-managed-objects-from-html/ ] After my session yesterday , I got number of email from people, who have a problem to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and vice verse. I want to answer to all of you by this post. Access HTML from Silverlight You have not do anything special in Silverlight to access it. Your...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/findresource-replacement-and-how-to-change-control-style-more-then-once-in-silverlight-20-application/ ] As deeper we’re digging in Silverlight 2.0, we finding more and more WPF things and we’re really missing in Silverlight. One of such things is FindResources. In WPF I had Visual and Logical tree, so I was able to travel the tree to find resource I need. Let’s see an example of the...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/networking-raw-sockets-in-silverlight-and-wpf-messaging-in-general/ ] You, probably, know how to use raw sockets in WinForms. It's pretty the same in WPF, however it is very different (and limited) in Silverlight. Today, we'll create sample application in Silverlight, WPF and WinForm that sending and receiving updates via TCP as well as broadcasting it via UDP (singlecast and...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/building-custom-user-control-in-silverlight-20-how-to-build-code-snippet-for-vs-as-bonus/ ] Do you remember, that we have "go-live" for Silverlight 2.0 and already have build machines configured ? Now it's time to build your very own custom control. Today, we'll build Range Slider. What is range slider? Range slider is a control, that lets you input two values, typically...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-20-beta-1-is-alive-how-to-use-it-now/ ] As you, probably, know, Silverlight 2.0 got "non-commercial" go-live and how you can start using it for real. But how to do it? Let try to understand. First of all, you have to remove all previous versions of Silverlight as well as remove Silverlight Alpha tools for Visual Studio. Then, install Runtime andm using chain installer...