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UserControl populating ItemsControl – Manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl

UserControl populating ItemsControl \u2013 manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl

Using async and await in Silverlight 5 and .NET 4 in Visual Studio 11 with the async targeting pack

Last September, I introduced the idea of Tasks in Silverlight . One of the things I really like about .NET 4.5, and the C# compiler that comes with it, is the ability to simplify asynchronous code by using the async modifier and await operator. Just yesterday...

Individual Silverlight Control Products Now Available

Silverlight Studio 2012.1 was released a little over a week ago and one thing we wanted to highlight was new purchasing options.  In the past, the only way to get our Silverlight products was via the Silverlight Studio bundle. As of version 2012 Read More......(read...

.NET Rocks! Podcast: Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11

Check it out, I've got another podcast with Richard and Carl this time talking about the new features in LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11. I always have a ton of fun talking with these guys and you can tell I'm super excited about the next version...

Retrieve System Information in Silverlight

In a Silverlight application we are building for a client, they wanted an About screen that would display system information such as the current URL, the operating system name and version, the product name and various other information. In the same application,...

Micro Charts Part 8 - Hot-Tracking Tooltips

In the previous post for our new Micro Charts product (currently available for WPF and Silverlight ), we showed some examples of win/loss charts.  In today's post, we'll take a look at a neat feature called hot-tracking tooltips. Since micro Read More......(read...

Apex Part 2: Adding Commands to an MVVM Application

Learn how to add Commands to your MVVM application to add functionality without breaking the separation of View and ViewModel.