Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight)
Colin Eberhardt, January 6th, 2011
Silverlight 4 added TextTrimming=”WordEllipsis”, which trims the text that a TextBlock displays based on the available width. This blog post describes a simple method for automatically showing the full text as a tooltip whenever the text is…
A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF
Colin Eberhardt, December 21st, 2010
The WPF / Silverlight syntax is long and cumbersome. This blog post describe a simple attached property that allows you to specify row and column widths / heights as a simple comma separated list, e.g. RowDefinitions=”Auto,,3*,,,,2*” The Gr…
Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (part 2)
Colin Eberhardt, October 20th, 2010
In a previous blog post I described the process of creating a lookless gauge control. I introduced the concept of an attached view model which separates view specific concepts from the control. In this post I demonstrate how this allows for great flexi…
Developing a (very) Lookless Silverlight Radial Gauge Control
Colin Eberhardt, August 19th, 2010
This blog post describes the development of a lookless radial gauge control. In this post I will explore the use of an attached view model in order to move view specific properties and logic out of the control code in order to give a truly lookless con…
Exposing and Binding to a Silverlight ScrollViewer’s Scrollbars
Colin Eberhardt, July 21st, 2010
The Silverlight ScrollViewer exposes readonly properties which indicate the current vertical and horizontal scroll offset, and methods for setting the current offset. In this blog post I demonstrate a simple attached behaviour that exposes these offset…
Silverlight ClipToBounds – Can I Clip It?, Yes You Can!
Colin Eberhardt, May 12th, 2009
With Silverlight, Panels do not clip their contents by default. See the following example: Where we have a Grid containing another Grid which itself contains an ellipse, and a Canvas which contains an ellipse: <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Back…
Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF
Colin Eberhardt, March 11th, 2009
When I first encountered WPF I was really impressed by its styling and templating features which are more powerful than anything else I had previously seen for desktop software development. The property-value pairing within styles instantly reminded me…
Implementing RelativeSource binding in Silverlight
Colin Eberhardt, February 27th, 2009
In my previous post I demonstrated how an the WPF ElementName style binding can be emulated with Silverlight via an attached behaviour. As a brief recap, the technique involved creating an attached property, which when bound, adds a handler for the ele…
ElementName binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviours
Colin Eberhardt, February 22nd, 2009
As a relative newcomer to Silverlight I was happily greeted by the warm feeling of familiarity when I started developing. It is surprisingly easy to make the transition from WPF to Silverlight developer, with most of the core concepts being just the sa…