12 Mar
2010

Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :2 Comments on Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek

One of my major gripes with Silverlight 3 is the inability to theme your application.  Currently if you want to style a button for your application you will have to define a style similar to this: <UserControl.Resources> <Style x:Key="myButtonStyle" TargetType="Button"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="Blue" /> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Green" /> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="24" /> </Style> </UserControl.Resources> Then, […]

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8 Mar
2010

Silverlight DataGrid – Populate Dynamic Columns from a Child Collection

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :13 Comments on Silverlight DataGrid – Populate Dynamic Columns from a Child Collection

Lets face it, any one building LOB (line of business) applications know that their users love Microsoft Excel.  If the users had their way, they would do everything in Excel.  Due to this known fact, when building Silverlight LOB applications, there is often a need to flatten out an object for editing in a grid.  […]

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7 Mar
2010

Text-To-Speech in Silverlight Using WCF

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :12 Comments on Text-To-Speech in Silverlight Using WCF

Back in February, I wrote a blog post showing you how to, using Silverlight 4 OOB (out of browser) with elevated trust, access system devices; including how to use the SAPI.SpVoice API through the new Silverlight 4 COM Interop feature to implement text to speech. The biggest problem to that approach is that it will […]

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5 Mar
2010

Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :5 Comments on Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader

I have been doing Silverlight development since it was released. One question I get asked a lot is how do to create a custom pre-loader for my application. What do I mean by pre-loader? Well, it can be called many things; it could be called a pre-loader, splash screen, or a loading screen. No matter […]

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2 Mar
2010

JQuery Validator Cheat Sheet

By: Chris Brandsma Category:UncategorizedTag: :

I?m getting a session ready for Boise Code Camp 2010 on JQuery Validator. I thought it would be cool to hand out a cheat sheet ? but I couldn?t find one. So here is rev. 1 of my?Jquery Validator Cheat sheet.

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1 Mar
2010

An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , :14 Comments on An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec

Over the last few years, the practice of Test-Driven Design and Behavior-Driven Design has increased in acceptance, even if its practice has not increased in equal proportion.  From my perspective, specification-based design is a natural way to develop software.  Each developer has a preferred framework, and a framework they loathe.  In the .NET world, there […]

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