<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 3/21/2010 5:26:44 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/personal/jimbg/Blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=a37880d0-ce26-484d-be8c-e65ce40069ef" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jimbg/Blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:26:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Blog</title><url>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jimbg/Blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jimbg/Blog</link></image><item><title>Walk the Visual Tree</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jimbg/personal/jimbg/Blog/archive/2008/10/24/walk-the-visual-tree.aspx</link><guid>/personal/jimbg/Blog/archive/2008/10/24/walk-the-visual-tree.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

How do you obtain a reference to an ancestor (within the visual tree) of a Silverlight FrameworkElement, given its name?  The question seems pretty straight forward.  FrameworkElement exposes a method, aptly named FindName, which appears to do just that.  Easy solution, right?  Well....maybe.
U ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jim Baltzell-Gauthier</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jimbg/personal/jimbg/Blog/archive/tags/Work/default.aspx">Work</category></item><item><title>Visual Studio Macros (C# Developers)</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jimbg/personal/jimbg/Blog/archive/2007/07/17/visual-studio-macros-c-developers.aspx</link><guid>/personal/jimbg/Blog/archive/2007/07/17/visual-studio-macros-c-developers.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


How many times have you defined a block of code, such as an if statement?  You begin the statement, followed by the conditions &quot;if ([condition(s)])&quot;.  You then follow a pattern similar to the following: 

Press Enter to advance a line
Start the block with a left brace ({)
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