Finally found a great article on this after some searching and finding really outdated articles! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613576.aspx <Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" ...

I encountered the infamous AG_E_UNKNOWN yesterday.  I was actually using Silverlight controls from Telerik.  I dragged the RadGridView control inside my XAML and thats where the problem manifested.  Apparently the drag/drop operation did not add all the References that I needed in order to use the Telerik controls.  If you ...

This should work for WPF and Silverlight.  This is a SUPER simple example.  I find it hard to locate really good clean examples in WPF / Silverlight.  People tend to do a lot of Control Templating and Style-izing which clouds the code.  I am starting a ‘Clean and Simple’ set of blog entries to show SIMPLE and CLEAN examples. ...

I am writing some User Controls for a WPF application and needed a quick way to create my Dependency Properties for my control. Below is the code snippet. First element is the type, next the Property Name, then the Containing Class name (you need this for the Dependency Property Registration call. <?xml version="1.0" ...

I will be converting from the Community Server platform to BlogEngine.net shortly.  I will build a data converter for the rollover and have my blog ported over very soon, hopefully with some of my own custom Silverlight elements. http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26080

Morten has a great little article with supporting source code explaining how to display a context menu with mouse gestures such as shift-click, double click, right-click..etc.  The code is very useful.  Good job! http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2009/05/09/Adding-rightclick-to-Silverlight.aspx

One issue I noticed with RIA services is that LINQ to SQL DBML classes do not show in the Available Data Context drop down until you have compiled the dbml at least once.  This is for obvious reasons but it would be nice to have a warning message or something. Solution:  Compile your project that contains the DBML file and your data ...

Problem:  Add a reference to a WCF service to your Silverlight 3 application.  The proxy client is created but the binding and endpoint configuration fails to write to the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file.   Workaround:  Checkout the .ClientConfig file prior to making changes to the service references.

BEFORE RUNNING THE SP 1 install you need to run the Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Cleanup Utility. The HFCU Utility can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RemoveKB944899 The service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 can be found ...

.style1 { font-family: Calibri; } p { font-family: Calibri; } .style2 { background-color: #FFFF00; } .style4 { font-size: medium; } Working on some WCF code for a Silverlight application I stumbled on this error message: Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service [insert service url here].  The ...