On October 1st I was awarded the Microsoft MVP for Silverlight. I am very honored and excited about this. The MVP program, taken from Tim Heuer’s post, “ is a recognition program that is in place to recognize and reward those individuals who have been identified by individuals (peers, Microsoft staff, etc.) as experts in [...]
Author Archives: Corey
Silverlight tip – managing HTML
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Triggers in Silverlight 3
Did you know there is a built-in Trigger in Silverlight 3? It’s the the Loaded event of objects. There’s been a fair bit of attention given to Behaviors, and rightfully so, but sometimes you simply want a trigger. It would be great to have more Triggers in SL, but for now, let’s take a look [...]
Convert string to Color
Here’s a quick function on how to convert a Hex string to a Color in Silverlight. Grab the code here.
SketchFlow Control Explorer
In a previous post I showed a screenshot of all the controls available to you in SketchFlow. The below application takes it one step further by displaying the live controls. For the record, the SketchFlow styles are re-distributable.
Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer
Today SmartyP (did you get that Roger, I didn’t use your name) was letting me know what Grinds his Gears which is: Why do Silverlight bloggers not embed Silverlight applications into their posts. Admittedly, I don’t have a single post that has an embedded Silverlight app. The root of the my problem is the lack [...]
