I find Silverlight amazing.  If you begin digging into the controls included with the base Silverlight install you will find an incredible structure for almost all the controls.  The part I love the most is the ItemTemplate or more specifically the DataTemplate. As an example I’ve taken a... [More]

I like the Digg pager control.  I like it on DotNetKicks too. Silverlight doesn't have a built in pager-bar control.  So I built one. This control can be placed within any other Silverlight control to control paging of any sort - not just the plain old DataGrid. &nb... [More]

A simple Silverlight BlogEngine.NET control. [More]

Before Silverlight 2 one had to go through loops to implement a timer, resulting in many different hacks. Now no more.  Simple.  Elegant.  Logical.  Common sense. 1: System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer t = new DispatcherTimer(); ... [More]

blank_page Value converts are one of the most important features of the .NET Framework that I use daily.  In Silverlight you use value converters to format binded data to your liking.  For example, formatting a date to a specific DateFormat (January 1, 2008).  Your imagination is ... [More]