Silverlight Examples & Samples

I had a need to save the Telerik PersistenceFramework data to the database rather than ISO. There's a few moving parts and not a lot of web-assistance. The code isn't difficult, just a tad difficult to find a good reference so I did my own.

WinRT/Metro Windows 8 Articles

Playing around with MainpulationModes in Metro, figuring out how to move UIElements in a controlled manner

Windows Phone

Let the mind wander and you come up with stuff... I don't know how many people actually use (buy?) a mobile phone app 'flashlight', but here's a freebie delivered with the device

Silverlight Tutorials

Introductory tutorial on building your very first Silverlight Application.

Silverlight Tooltips

Fighting a problem I've had for quite a while with my home workstation, I crippled the Silverlight logo and only allow it to rotate twice per page refresh, and the problem seems to have cleared up. Read on to see what I'm talking about.

C# Articles and Discussion

I removed the clutter from the right-hand sidebar of my MasterPage by using Metabuilders ExpandingButtons control.

General Coding Discussion

When I opened Outlook this morning, it appeared to be there but wasn't displaying. I found many caustic solutions, but then found a great answer in a YouTube video

Legacy C++ Articles

Another Legacy article in C++, this one recompiled in VS2005 explains how to sync your text extents in a derived MFC CListBox control. Included is an explanation of how to really get the CFont object you thought you were going to get in your control.

Virus Alerts and Info

Microsoft has released a patch for the WMF Exploit reported on 01/03/2006