Delay's Blog
Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, Web Platform, .NET, and more...
Teaching an old dog new tricks [Updated HtmlTextBlock implementation uses RichTextBox to support images and hyperlinks]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/24/2010
There are lots of ways to ask for a date [Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/21/2010
See how we make the sausage [Episode 5 of the Inside Windows Phone show highlights the Windows Phone Toolkit!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/20/2010
Pining for Windows Phone 7 controls? We got ya covered! [Announcing the first release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/16/2010
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help [Two fixes for DynamicOrientationChanges improve the experience of animating and fading Windows Phone orientation changes]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/13/2010
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow [DeferredLoadListBox (and StackPanel) help Windows Phone 7 lists scroll smoothly and consistently]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/08/2010
Keep a low profile [LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background]
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Author: David Anson Date: 09/02/2010
Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform]
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Author: David Anson Date: 08/26/2010
Fade Into You [Code to easily animate orientation changes for Windows Phone applications now supports fade, too!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 08/18/2010
My new home page, rejuvenated [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF/Windows Phone Data Visualization resources!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 08/11/2010
Why didn't I think of that in the first place? [Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates]
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Author: David Anson Date: 08/04/2010
If they build it, I will come (and link to it) [WPPFormatter plug-in now available for TextAnalysisTool.NET]
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Author: David Anson Date: 07/28/2010
New phone bits, same pretty charts [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example for the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta]
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Author: David Anson Date: 07/23/2010
Hopping outside the box [How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF]
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Author: David Anson Date: 07/20/2010
Spin Spin Sugar [Updated code to easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application]
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Author: David Anson Date: 07/13/2010
Banana SplitButton [A WPF-specific fix for SplitButton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version, too]
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Author: David Anson Date: 07/06/2010
Breaking up (lines) is (not) hard to do [Tip: Put XAML attributes and elements on multiple lines so the markup is easy to read and work with]
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Author: David Anson Date: 06/24/2010
Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight]
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Author: David Anson Date: 06/17/2010
SplitButtoning hairs [Two fixes for my Silverlight SplitButton/MenuButton implementation - and true WPF support]
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Author: David Anson Date: 06/11/2010
The source code IS the executable, RTM edition [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4 RTM]
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Author: David Anson Date: 06/08/2010
Please rate your dining experience [How to: Show text labels on a numeric axis with Silverlight/WPF Toolkit Charting]
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Author: David Anson Date: 06/02/2010
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application with this handy source code]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/27/2010
Back online! [MSDN blogging platform upgraded, comments re-enabled, new content on the way...]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/24/2010
Going dark [MSDN blogging platform being upgraded - NO new posts or comments next week]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/14/2010
Gettin' blobby with it [Sharing the code for a simple Silverlight 4 REST-based cloud-oriented file management app for Azure and S3]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/13/2010
We've secretly changed this control's DataContext - let's see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios - including DataGrid+ContextMenu]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/11/2010
The joys of being an early adopter... [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/05/2010
The one that got away [Simple workarounds for a visual problem when toggling a ContextMenu MenuItem's IsEnabled property directly]
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Author: David Anson Date: 05/04/2010
If found, please return to... [Using XAML to create a custom wallpaper image for your mobile device]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/28/2010
Nobody likes a show-off [Today's DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/22/2010
Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/20/2010
Developer test case, customer win! [Using ContextMenu to implement SplitButton and MenuButton for Silverlight (or WPF)]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/19/2010
The one with all the goofy heading names [Detailed information about the Silverlight Toolkit's new stacked series support]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/16/2010
Alive and kickin' [New Silverlight 4 Toolkit released with today's Silverlight 4 RTW!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/15/2010
"I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating" [Tip: For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead]
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Author: David Anson Date: 04/02/2010
Sometimes you just gotta do the best you can [Tip: Read-only custom DependencyProperties don't exist in Silverlight, but can be closely approximated]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/30/2010
That's why it's called the default value instead of default values [Tip: The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/29/2010
When you have two good options, go with the easier one [Tip: Set DependencyProperty default values in a class's default style if it's more convenient]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/26/2010
The platform giveth power, don't taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/25/2010
Freedom isn't free [Tip: When creating a DependencyProperty, follow the handy convention of "wrapper+register+static+virtual"]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/24/2010
Do one thing, and do it well [Tip: The CLR wrapper for a DependencyProperty should do its job and nothing more]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/23/2010
Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time... [Announcing a new "Development Tips" series on my blog!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/23/2010
Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/17/2010
My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/09/2010
Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart]
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Author: David Anson Date: 03/06/2010
Highlighting a "weak" contribution [Enhancements make preventing memory leaks with WeakEventListener even easier!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 02/25/2010
This is what happens when two Toolkits fall in love... [The February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 02/22/2010
No trees were harmed in the making of this blog post [How to: Successfully print a Chart with the Silverlight 4 Beta]
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Author: David Anson Date: 02/18/2010
This one time, at band camp... [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 02/11/2010
The customer is always right [Updated free tool and source code to prevent a machine from going to sleep!]
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Author: David Anson Date: 02/01/2010