Styles In Silverlight: Further Advanced Topics
August 19th, 2010
This article is part 3 of 4 in a series covering everything that I think is worth knowing about styles in Silverlight. The previous parts of the series are Styles in Silverlight: an Introduction and Styles in Silverlight – Inheritance, Precedence and Other Advanced Topics.
This part of the series explores some further advanced topics: data [...]
Styles in Silverlight – Inheritance, Precedence and Other Advanced Topics
July 29th, 2010
This article is part 2 of 4 in a series attempting to cover everything I think is worth knowing about styles in Silverlight 4. The previous article in the series was Styles in Silverlight: an Introduction that covered what styles are, how they can be defined and some of their limitations.
This article focuses on [...]
Advanced Printing in Silverlight: Printing Charts and Auto Scaling
May 7th, 2010
Printing support has been introduced in Silverlight 4. This means that any part of the visual tree can be printed in a simple way via API calls. This article gives an overview of how to execute basic printing, looks at what happens when printing complex objects (e.g. charts) and describes how to auto scale elements [...]
Determining Silverlight Version Installed
April 29th, 2010
The other day I wanted to find out what version of Silverlight is installed on my computer. This task is actually not as simple as it sounds as the Silverlight plugin is actually browser dependent: there’s a different one installed for Internet Explorer and a different for other browsers. The only way I’ve found to [...]
Using built-in, embedded and streamed fonts in Silverlight
March 1st, 2010
Silverlight gives the developer the possibility of completely customizing the developed application in all aspects. Defining fonts used for displaying text is no exception. However there are multiple ways on how to go ahead with specifying fonts to use, this article attempts to summarize the options.
Using built-in fonts
Silverlight comes with some fonts that can [...]