Problem: Silverlight 2 & Silverlight 3 do not support HTML, how can I remove the tags? Solution: Although there are many solutions to this problem, the quickest and most frequently solution I use is a regular expression to remove HTML tags. The most straightforward example I’ve found is from John Papa’s book Data Driven Services [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Sep 14
Silverlight tip – Dynamic TextBlock
Problem: You need text to dynamically add elipses, "…", to the end of a sentence. The difficulty is how do you detect the actual length of the string. All characters are not created the same. Ten i’s != ten m’s. Solution: Robby Ingebretsen at NerdPlusArt.com (and of Kaxaml fame) has a dynamic control that does [...]
Sep 14
Back to the basics
It’s been almost two years since I started this blog. It mainly started out as a way for me to keep track of my learnings (unfortunately Evernote has taken that place). There are a number of other sites that have similar information, but that’s the point of blogs to provide information to the community. Certainly [...]
Sep 09
Changes – IQ, Turin, and more
Over the past six months I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work with a highly talented team (Mason Brown, Casey Britt, SmartyP, and many more) at IQ Interactive. We’ve been working on an amazing, ground breaking, Silverlight application. There wasn’t a stone unturned while developing. Items such as Pixel Shaders, custom Panels, animations for purpose [...]
Sep 09
Twitter killed my blog
The other day i saw a quote from Ambrose Little that couldn’t have been more accurate about Twitters impact on my life. Simply put, it has killed my blog. Instead of blogging about smaller items or topics, it’s so much easier, and faster, for me to microblog (i.e. tweet) instead blog. From the surface it’s [...]
