Thursday, May 17, 2012    
Articles  
Alan Beasley
Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend & Silverlight
A beginner's guide to building robust, scalable, and easily editable buttons. As well as covering Template Binding to the Style, Layout, Animation, Opacity Masks, Scalability & Reuse.
 
Arcade Button in Expression Blend & Silverlight
Discover the power of the Grid object, & how it controls the Layout of your UserControl. As well as discussing Center Point.
 
Picture Frame Control in Expression Blend & Silverlight
How to build your first re-useable Control from scratch in Expression Blend.
 
The WC Door button, covering all the missing skills needed to create the buttons shown in my 1st tutorial. As well as all 10 buttons for download!
 
How to Style a more complicated Control, than just a simple button, starting with the ScrollBars!
 
ListBox Styling (Part2-ControlTemplate) in Expression Blend & Silverlight
How to Style the Control Template of a ListBox in a small MVVM application. Discussing multiple Styles, nested Controls, Resource Dictionaries, Similar Control Templates (TreeView), Control Reuse & a few other tips...
 
ListBox Styling (Part3-Additional Templates) in Expression Blend & Silverlight
Explanation & examples of the Additional Templates & Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions & Animation.
 
Busy Dizzy Bee-sley Spirographic Animation in Expression Blend & Silverlight
Simulating a random motion animation without code, using Spirographic Shapes, PathListBoxes, Storyboards & Behaviours
  
Michael Washington

OData Simplified
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/98/OData-Simplified.aspx

Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/99/Simple-Silverlight-4-Example-Using-oData-and-RX-Extensions.aspx

Simple Example To Secure WCF Data Service OData Methods
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/BlogID/1/Default.aspx

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/ODataPaging.aspx

Expression Blend Number Guesser using DataStore
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/103/Expression-Blend-Number-Guesser-using-DataStore.aspx 

How To Start An Animation From View Model (MVVM)
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/113/How-To-Start-An-Animation-From-View-Model-MVVM.aspx

Deleting A Silverlight DataGrid Row With A Button On The Row
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/115/Deleting-A-Silverlight-DataGrid-Row-With-A-Button-On-The-Row.aspx

Using the “Hisowa Simple PopUp Behavior” in a DataGrid
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/116/Using-the-ldquo-Hisowa-Simple-PopUp-Behavior-rdquo-in-a-DataGrid.aspx

A Simple DataGrid Delete Button Using View Model / MVVM
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/118/A-Simple-DataGrid-Delete-Button-Using-View-Model-MVVM.aspx

Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM)
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/119/Open-File-Dialog-Using-ldquo-View-Model-Style-rdquo-it-rsquo-s-like-MVVM.aspx

Silverlight Un-saved Data Detection (MVVM)
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SLUnsavedData.aspx

Using The Silverlight Data Pager Control With View Model / MVVM
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/129/Using-The-Silverlight-Data-Pager-Control-With-View-Model-MVVM.aspx

Silverlight Report Viewer using View Model / MVVM
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SLReportPopup.aspx

A demo application using the Silverlight Sterling Database using View Model / MVVM
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SLDatabaseApp.aspx

Silverlight Super Tabs Interface (using View Model / MVVM)
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SuperTabs.aspx

Silverlight View Model (MVVM) - A Play In One Act
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/141/Silverlight-View-Model-MVVM-A-Play-In-One-Act.aspx

Creating the Silverlight View Model (MVVM) Control: Calendar Icon
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/142/Creating-the-Silverlight-View-Model-MVVM-Control-Calendar-Icon.aspx

Windows Phone 7: Saving Data when Keyboard is visible
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/146/Windows-Phone-7-Saving-Data-when-Keyboard-is-visible.aspx

Windows Phone 7 Animated Button Press
http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/156/Windows-Phone-7-Animated-Button-Press.aspx

  
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