Unfortunately, as of the latest version of Silverlight 4 and Blend 4, there’s a feature supportability mismatch. Blend 4’s designer may lead to you to believe and expect that VisualStates will work within a Silverlight 4 application. (It led me down that path). In fact, VisualStates do not work directly inside of a ChildWindow. VisualStates [...]

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Have you tried to create a horizontally oriented ListBox in Silverlight with a custom ItemsPaneltemplate, with a Panel of type other than StackPanel? If you have, you’ll likely have run into the same problem I have – you can’t really do it. Unfortunately, the ItemsControl (which the ListBox derives from), eventually checks the Panel type [...]

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Ever debugged output from a RESTful web service and was driven absolutely mad by the lack of formatting of the XML? Seriously, how much fun is it to stare at XML that has no line breaks or indentation whatsoever? I haven’t tried to solve the problem within the IDE as that’s a different problem. However, [...]

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You may notice that the Silverlight TileBrush is missing some key properties which would enable it to actually tile a brush. The WPF TileBrush has properties such as TileMode, Viewbox, and ViewportUnits that can be used to tile an image as a fill or as a background for a UIElement. For some reason, they’re not [...]

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From JohnPapa.net, “Siliverlight 2-Tip – Declaring Events.” He thinks that the place to wire up an event is always in code rather than in markup (like XAML). “What’s my opinion? I firmly believe the handlers belong in the code and not in the XAML.” I’d suggest that’s not always right either (and maybe not the [...]

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