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We've all been busy on our various sites. Earlier this year, we
put out an overall redesign for MSDN. Yesterday, the asp.net site
team went live with a redesign to the asp.net site (looks awesome,
btw). Also yesterday, we went live with the redesigned Windows Developer Center on MSDN.
The team really pulled out all the stops in making this a
beautiful and usable site. From a visual design sta...
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I've recently posted a few articles here
on my site. You may wonder why articles and not blog posts?
One problem I ran into on my previous site was the dating of
content that could be updated over time. You often run into this
with regular blog sites as well. I strongly dislike going back and
editing old blog posts, as the blog format wasn't really intended
for that. Blog posts should be accu...
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I just published a new article on how to get started learning WPF or Silverlight. If
you're new to either of these technologies, this could be a great
resource for you.
Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight:
A Learning Path for New Developers
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With your help, I've just put up a new article on the essential
tools every client developer should have in their toolbox. If
there's a tool (not a library/framework - that'll come next) that
you use during your client development, please go ahead and comment
on the article and let me know.
Article:
The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer
Toolbox
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #15. I had so much to
send out this week, I decided to do a special edition.
I'll be at MIX10 next week. Be sure to watch the keynote
at MIX (usually broadcast live), as well as the sessions once they
are posted (typically by the end of the week). Stay tuned to the MIX
website.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
i...
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Yesterday I blogged about using the special "Item[]" property
name in the PropertyChanged event for a custom ObservableDictionary class.
What I didn't know was whether or not the Item[] property name
was effectively a change notification for every single binding
target, or just the current one. I suspected it did it for every
binding (I even tried specifying a key inside the brackets, ...
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I saw this tweet in my Windows Client tweetstream today:
I thought, "what a good idea for a sample." I know that binding
in WPF and
Silverlight
can be a challenge, especially if you're new to the technology. It
can be even more difficult when you're working with an edge case
like binding using indexers.
So, here's a quickie on binding to a Dictionary<TKey,
TValue> in WPF...
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WPF and
Silverlight
allow you to bind to property indexers by string key or numeric
index. For example:
<TextBox Text="{Binding [field1], Mode=TwoWay}" />
<TextBox Text="{Binding Fields[field1], Mode=TwoWay}" />
<TextBox Text="{Binding [15], Mode=TwoWay}" />
If you're creating the data source for those (for example, you
are building your own ObservableDiction...
