<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 1/7/2009 1:33:20 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/personal/bobc/Blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=2f0c5821-4006-4aa8-992c-369a47e4572c" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Bob Cowherd's Blog</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:33:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Bob Cowherd's Blog</title><url>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog</link></image><item><title>VSM Redux – Silverlight 2 RTW</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/10/27/vsm-redux-–-silverlight-2-rtw.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/10/27/vsm-redux-–-silverlight-2-rtw.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Silverlight's Visual State Manager (VSM) exhibited a couple of problems in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 which I described in my earlier blog post.  To summarize, in SL2 Beta 2:
Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, and ListBoxItems ran into problems when trying to animate the same property for Normal, Mouseover, and C... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:16:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Return of the Mac (How to squash Silverlight bugs on a Mac using Remote Debugging and Fiddler)</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/26/return-of-the-mac.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/26/return-of-the-mac.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, differences between the PC and Mac versions of the Silverlight runtime will crop up, and you'll notice that your code works fine on PCs, but has problems on a Mac. If this is the case, you'll need to remotely debug the problem from a PC with Visual Studio, or use Fiddler to scan networ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:52:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Scroll Button Dilemma</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/03/silverlight-the-scroll-button-dilemma.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/03/silverlight-the-scroll-button-dilemma.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
To quote StrongBad, &quot;Scroll buttons never looked so good! Scrollin' up and down like you knew they would...&quot; 
Or, perhaps not.  We recently encountered a problem when trying to implement scroll buttons in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 that would:  
1) Smoothly scoll up and down when being held ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't Fence Me In (I’m just a TextBox)</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/03/dont-fence-me-in.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/03/dont-fence-me-in.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
In Silverlight 2 Beta 2, setting BorderThickness=&quot;0&quot; or BorderBrush=&quot;Transparent&quot; on a TextBox fails to hide the border around the TextBox.  I couldn't get a TextBox I was building to lose its border: 
 
This seemed like a bug to me, but a Silverlight Program Manager explaine... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:47:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silverlight/WPF: Returning Image Data from a Converter</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/03/returning-image-data-from-a-converter.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/03/returning-image-data-from-a-converter.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Recently, when working with a class that implemented IValueConverter, I encountered some behavior I found unintuitive when returning an image URI value from the Convert() method.  My Convert() method was returning a URI string as the Source value for an Image XAML element.  This worked on the init... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/tags/Work/default.aspx">Work</category></item><item><title>“Shield” Yourself from Animation Problems in Silverlight Visual State Manager</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/02/VSMShield.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/09/02/VSMShield.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
While working on Vertigo's high definition video player for the Democratic National Convention, our team encountered some challenges with Silverlight 2 Beta 2's Visual State Manager. In this post, I'll discuss how we overcame these challenges, and our solution to make working with VSM simple, quic... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/tags/Work/default.aspx">Work</category></item><item><title>Democratic National Convention: A Resounding Success for Vertigo!</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/08/29/democratic-national-convention-a-resounding-success-for-vertigo.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/08/29/democratic-national-convention-a-resounding-success-for-vertigo.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Vertigo's DNC team is sitting in the Denver airport right now after an exciting and exhausting week at the Democratic National Convention.  We built the High Definition video website for the convention, and it was a huge success! We had a massive number of people around the world watch the conventio... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:59:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vertigo Arrives at the Democratic National Convention!</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/08/24/vertigo-arrives-at-the-democratic-national-convention.aspx</link><guid>/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/2008/08/24/vertigo-arrives-at-the-democratic-national-convention.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of months, Vertigo has been building the High Definition, Silverlight-driven video website for the Democratic National Convention.  6 members of our team arrived in Denver yesterday, and we'll be supporting the site throughout the convention, which runs from Monday August 25 to ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob Cowherd</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/bobc/personal/bobc/Blog/archive/tags/Work/default.aspx">Work</category></item></channel></rss>