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Dante's blog

Tester by day, teacher by night, and learning a bit more each day.

The next page!

Well, the link isn't QUITE active yet, but if you go to...

Date: 07/10/2009

Working with Drawing Brushes

Ok folks, I've got a few minutes, and I've been seeing some discussion on our internal lists about...

Date: 06/30/2009

Cre8 and ZAAZ

This is particularly overdue, but now that I've been featured on the Expression community site, I...

Date: 05/20/2009

A Silverlight TextBlock with Tracking? Surely you jest!

Well, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted… although I’m going to be paying a LOT more...

Date: 02/27/2009

Well, I just had it pointed out to me, that my blog is now listed on...

Date: 03/03/2008

Moving objects around interactively

I was playing around with Blend today, and decided that I wanted to write a function to allow my...

Date: 02/21/2008

MIX '08

Well, it's official, I'm going to be presenting at the MIX convention! I'm really excited for this,...

Date: 02/13/2008

Getting the 'Vista' minimize with Windowless applications

Here's the problem. Launch Blend, and create a window that has AllowsTransparency set to true (which...

Date: 01/16/2008

Transparent Windows and how to Resize them

A teammate came to talk to me, because he's working with a semi-transparent window, with no Border,...

Date: 11/21/2007

XBox 360 Live Gamertags in Blend!

The honorable Major Nelson just posted that someone created a Vista Gadget that will display the...

Date: 10/25/2007

Changing the selection color in a ListBox

I just worked through figuring this out today, and since it was sufficiently irritating, I thought...

Date: 10/15/2007

Repeating an animation

It may not be a huge revelation for other folks, but with some of the testing I've been doing, I...

Date: 08/03/2007

Variable Value Converters

I've been asked how to create a Value Converter that you can configure the behavior of. In my Total...

Date: 07/27/2007

Calligraphy In Ink! (Part 2)

Ok, see this is what happens when I have some time to 'play' with Blend. My previous post showed how...

Date: 06/20/2007

Calligraphy in Ink!

Ok, this is something I think is kinda cool... one of my side hobbies is calligraphy. I've been...

Date: 06/20/2007

Command line arguments

Ok, this was really bugging me... I needed to figure out how to create a Window application, and...

Date: 06/12/2007

I'm up on the web!

Ok, this isn't anything too new for most folks, but the "Trailer" for the Total Training series on...

Date: 03/27/2007

Creating an alternate layout panel

Ok, this is neat. This is the first time I've worked with layout panels and actually creating one of...

Date: 03/07/2007

Using a Timer

Ok, most C# developers can probably do this in their sleep, but I needed to hook up a timer that...

Date: 03/07/2007

Databinding to CLR Objects

I'm sure everyone else runs into these issues all the time, but every time I have to do this, I end...

Date: 03/07/2007

Working with the Opacity Masks

Well, it's been a while since I've managed to post, but I've been working with Interactive Designer...

Date: 10/09/2006

Updating an Image control

I had a coworker as me how to update an Image control in code. Specifically, he wanted to create a...

Date: 06/20/2006

Saving and retrieving Ink

Well, we had another Application Bash for Expression Interactive Designer this week, and my...

Date: 06/09/2006

Integer to Roman Numeral Value Converter

Databinding uses Value Converters to bind a value in one component's "Language" to another. For...

Date: 03/22/2006

Obligatory Introduction

Well, as everyone seems to do with their first posts, I figure I should say a bit about myself. I'm...

Date: 03/17/2006