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Finding a control’s position in Silverlight 2.0
11 Aug 2008, 10:26:00 AM
Ever found yourself with a need to know a controls position in silverlight 2.0, but weren’t using a canvas layout? You could be implementing a combo box, or a review popup, or a semi-transparent detail panel on a glass pane, and suddenly found ...
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Programmatically designating a LINQ “orderby”
04 Mar 2008, 06:41:00 PM
Ever found yourself writing a LINQ query and realized that the order of the result set needed to be determined by the user at run time?  While adding a handler for OnSorting for a GridView I hit this.  My datasource was a List<>, so the bu ...
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How to filter Collections on the fly, using LINQ
04 Mar 2008, 05:32:00 PM
Back in February a fellow Vertigo employee, Alan, blogged about “WPF: How to filter ListBox items on the fly”, which got me thinking about how could I do the same thing with LINQ. Additionally, as I rarely have the luxury to be working with Objec ...
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Firefox + Noscript = no silverlight
10 Oct 2007, 10:39:00 AM
One of the things I like about the Firefox browser is the add-on “Noscript” which allows you to selectively choose which sites to allow javascript on.  But I ran into a problem viewing pages with Microsoft’s new Silverlight content.  As in it ...
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