Josh Wagoner

Path Data Parser

In this post I built a control that allows manipulation of a Path control. Unfortunately, it only works if you do not use the mini-language described here and include all the path segment elements in your XAML. When the mini language is used silverlight...

Posted Nov 23 2008, 10:34 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Much improved Silverlight 2 Custom Cursors

In this post I built a sample using attached properties to display custom cursors in Silverlight. While that sample was a good illustration of using attached properties and fairly useful it was not a solution that I think could scale to a production...

Posted Oct 01 2008, 10:05 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Tracking ItemsControl Container Elements

Silverlight ItemsControls do not provide an easy way to retrieve the generated item containers for the items within the ItemsControl. In WPF the ItemContainerGenerator provides the item generation for the ItemsControl as well as nice helper methods to...

Posted Sep 23 2008, 11:48 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Manipulating Silverlight Path Data

I’ve been playing with Paths in Silverlight. Silverlight provides basically the same functionality as WPF for vector graphics using Paths, at least as far as I can tell so far. Despite having worked with WPF for almost 4 years I’ve actually...

Posted Sep 12 2008, 12:08 AM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Creating a Silverlight FrameworkTemplate in code

When I tried to create a ItemsPanelTemplate in code it didn’t appear that there was a way to do this. Unless I’m missing something there must be some magic happening with the Silverlight XAML parser to create FrameworkTemplates (ItemsPanelTemplate...

Posted Aug 29 2008, 09:46 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Inking with a Silverlight Custom Cursor

Nate mentioned in his post about editing the custom cursor in Blend that he wanted to get the InkPresenter wired up. With a quick skim of this great article it was trivial. WPF has a full blown InkCanvas control that handles adding all the strokes in...

Posted Aug 28 2008, 10:27 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight 2 Custom Cursors

When I first started playing with Silverlight 2 one thing I noticed was there was no way to use a custom cursor in a Silverlight app like you could in a WPF app. I’ve put together a sample of how you could create custom cursor like behavior in a...

Posted Aug 26 2008, 10:06 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Silverlight

Django is Dawesome, Part 1 of N

A few months back I decided I wanted to learn some new technologies. For my entire professional career I have been working with Microsoft technologies. For the last four I have been working entirely on rich client applications (mostly using WPF). So,...

Posted Aug 12 2008, 07:39 PM by Blog Bloginski » Technologies

Filed under: Django

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Josh Wagoner

Path Data Parser

Much improved Silverlight 2 Custom Cursors

Tracking ItemsControl Container Elements

Manipulating Silverlight Path Data

Creating a Silverlight FrameworkTemplate in code

Inking with a Silverlight Custom Cursor

Silverlight 2 Custom Cursors

Django is Dawesome, Part 1 of N