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Silverlight – Getting started with XAML
XAML stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language (pronounced zamm-uhl). It is an XML based markup language used to instantiate .NET objects. XAML was initially designed as part of Windows...
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XAML and TypeConverters
In a XAML document, every element maps to an instance of a Silverlight (.NET) class. The properties of this instance can be set through attributes in the XAML file. There is a bit of a catch though....
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Adding a Custom Silverlight Control
Silverlight has a ton of controls that we can use in our Silverlight apps. Most of the times, this collection of controls is sufficient, but every once in a while, we need to create a custom control....
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Creating a Custom XAML TypeConverter
TypeConverters provide a means of converting a String to the appropriate .NET type or a new instance when XAML is processed. I’ve already looked at how the XAML parser searches for TypeConverters (XAML...
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Dependency Properties in Silverlight
Very simply, a property of an element that depends on a number of property-providers outside the element is called a "dependency property". Each of these providers has its own level of precedence....
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Resolution of Dependency Properties
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, dependency properties depend on any number of services (called property providers) for their values. The Silverlight runtime needs to follow strict rules of...
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Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight
An attached property is a type of global property that is settable on any nested object. In Silverlight (and WPF), attached properties are usually defined as a specialized case of Dependency...
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XAML Resources
Every element in Silverlight contains a Resource property that maintains a dictionary of resources. This collection can hold any type, and a key is used to refer to each individual resource. Each...
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Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio allows developers to save snippets of code which can be inserted at a later time. This saves on retyping blocks of code that are used often. I also find it very useful when I have to show...
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Incorrect C++ compiler behavior in Visual Studio
[Note: Special credit for this post goes to my colleague Yuliy Gerchikov, who first discovered this issue] As most C++ programmers know, an object that has been constructed via the new expression must...
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