Tag Archives: Styles

Seeker Sidebar 4 – Styles, Control Templates, and Visual States

Live Example: http://www.adefwebserver.com/Richard/ooNaEyeDevelopmentv2/ooNaEyeDevelopmentTestPage.html I’ve been promising to get to Visual States, and this time I’m actually going to do it. In the process I cover creating a templated control from scratch, and technically I achieve my goal of not having … Continue reading

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Extract styles in Expression Blend

You may have found yourself in a situation when you want to convert an implicit style in XAML into a resource. Until today, I did it with creating the new style, and adding the setters manually. But I thought “There … Continue reading

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Implicit Styles & CompositeTransform

In this post I’ll show two useful features: implicit styles and new transform – CompositeTransform. Implicit Styles Useful links http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-11 http://scorbs.com/2009/11/19/pdc-session-silverlight-4-beta-overview/ from Martin Kruszyński   more here

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Dynamic Theming in Silverlight with Implicit Styles

Recently I’ve  had a few questions about how to dynamically set or change the visual theme for a Silverlight application at runtime.  The scenario is generally that an application has many possible themes, and needs to pick one  depending on, … Continue reading

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Silverlight 4′s New Implicit Styles

Silverlight 4 introduces a boatload of big-ticket features such as printing support, webcam and microphone support, and support for elevated trust in out-of-browser applications. It’s also chock full of minor improvements that fly lower under the radar. One of my … Continue reading

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Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

By Melissa Scroggins Learning is a process which continues throughout the life of an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Along the way, designers find the task of mastering Adobe Illustrator a large obstacle which requires practice and experience in using … Continue reading

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Silverlight 3 Quick Tip Styling Improvements

Silverlight 3 bring long-awaited improvements in styling mechanism: “BasedOn” mechanism, Merged Resource Dictionaries and eliminates “write once” style setting behavior. Let’s see those features. BasedOn Styles can be “derived” from one another. Perfect for cascading/inheriting styles. Let’s define style for … Continue reading

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Silverlight 3,0 Split styles and templates into different files and merge resources

Silverlight 3.0 now support a way to merge resources. So now we can split resources into different files. The following is a example of a simple resource file (ResourceA.xaml): <ResourceDictionary xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”> <Style x:Name=”MyButtonStyle” TargetType=”Button”> <Setter Property=”Background” Value=”red”/> </Style> </ResourceDictionary> … Continue reading

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