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TOD: Data binding is drag and drop in Blend 2.5 - see coming videos. -jl
| TOD: The lock in Blend grids set a fixed height / width of the row/col; unlocked lets the size stay proportional (watch the XAML) -JL |
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| TOD: From within Blend open Viz Studio on same project by right clicking on solution and choosing "Edit in Visual Studio" - JL |
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| New How Do I videos on writing keyboard shortcuts and user controls posted. -jl |
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| TOD: User Controls can communicate with other .xaml pages by raising events; see http://tinyurl.com/3vh72c JL |
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| TOD: Use an empty style resource as a placeholder for future styles - TBJ http://tinyurl.com/4a4u5r |
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| TOD: If you put a control within a border, and set the control's borderbrush and/or background alpha =0 it is set to that of the border. JL |
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| TOD: Xaml in a Class Library can reference styles not defined in the library, but in the application that uses it. TBJ |
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| TOD: Xaml in a Class Library can reference styles not defined in the library, but in the app that uses it. TBJ http://tinyurl.com/3ex3gr |
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| TOD: InitializeError? Check the Startup Object setting in your project’s Silverlight property page. – TBJ |
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| Send your Tips of the Day to jliberty@microsoft.com -- see http://tinyurl.com/3ex3gr |
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| TOD: When DataBinding, If DataContext is set on layout control, it will apply to all controls contained within. MyGrid.DataContext=foo; |
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| Atlantic City File Links fixed, with apologies for the wait. -jl |
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| New tutorial posted on creating user controls - http://tinyurl.com/5cjzvr -jl |
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| TOD: Brad Abrams has a killer walk through from get started to showing data from a web service. http://tinyurl.com/6qqp2b |
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| TBJ adds The tips allowed us to get our libraries converted for Silverlight in about a day and a half. |
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| TOD: Need to share your code base with a Silverlight client? Read this MSDN article: http://tinyurl.com/4fzpcm - TBJ |
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| New Silverlight 2 Videos Posted, 2 by Tim, 1 by me and 1 by Ronnie Saurenmann at http://tinyurl.com/6hdsp7 -JL |
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| TOD: Listen to Silverlight Cream Blogmeister Interviewed on on Sparkling Client at http://tinyurl.com/6qa7on JL |
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| Get ready for videos and tutorials on how silverlight 2 intersects w blend targeted at developers... More very soon... JL |
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