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I’ve just released a library to CodePlex that implements a feature missing from Silverlight: the ability to generate bitmaps from pixels in code at runtime. WPF provides this through its WritableBi...

For those of you who saw me in Oslo this week, here are the Silverlight and WPF demos for download.

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I’ll be teaching the Pluralsight WPF Fundamentals course in London later this month. (It runs from 29th September to 2nd October, so I guess that’s later this month ...

I recently worked on a project that included code to calculate the bounding box of a collection of rectangles. The code did more or less what you might expect – it iterated over the collection, and...

Silverlight 2 introduces a mechanism for customizing the dynamic aspects of a control’s appearance. This new model appeared for the first time in the recent beta 2 release, so I thought I’d take a ...

My apologies to everyone who attended my WPF course in London last month - it looks like I forgot to upload the demos. I'm afraid I confused myself by putting the wrong title on the previous week's...

The BBC has a Silverlight deep zoom app as part of the web coverage of the ‘Radio 1 Big Weekend’ event. (“Europe’s biggest free ticketed event” apparently.) If you live in the UK and have watched B...

Nulls can complicate code. One of the lesser known C# language features, the ?? operator, can sometimes help. This operator lets you provide an alternate value to be used in the event that an expre...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Applied
Silverlight course in London this week. As promised, here are the demos built during the week.

Jon Skeet recently observed that range variables in LINQ expressions are not like other variables. A range variable is one like foobar in the following:
var query = from foobar in source
where foo...