Tag Archives: user interfaces

Silverlight: Themes

When Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Silverlight first came out, the announcements happily proclaimed that it was even easier to have your visual design team build really nice user interfaces that we, the developers, could then enhance with code. But … Continue reading

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Introducing Silverlight Console

Consoles are a unique animal in this day and age of multi-touch user interfaces – they stand productively tall despite all the enhancements in user-interaction over the years. And as Silverlight grows into a more rounded and generalized platform, there … Continue reading

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Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 3

UPDATE: There will be a fourth part that discusses the add/remove facility through RIA Services. Look for it soon at a blog near you. In the first part of this series, I looked at how WCF RIA Services can work … Continue reading

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Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

As WinForms and WebForms developers, we are used to building user interfaces (UIs) that look like this: Notice the rectangular header area and the rectangular link area and the rectangular data entry area. With Silverlight it is (relatively) easy to … Continue reading

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Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Styling Part 7.2

In Part 7.1 of this series I looked at the importance of styling your Silverlight applications. In this article I will be taking a look at fashions in user interface design of late, and what basic elements can be identified … Continue reading

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Silverlight DataGrid – Prototyping Tip For Column Headers

by Dean Working in investment banking, I often get asked to create semi-functional prototypes of user interfaces, where the development methodology is all about speed and not about code-quality. Often these projects will be centred around the Silverlight DataGrid, and … Continue reading

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