This past Wednesday I was asked to present at the Phoenix Silverlight users group on the topic of writing custom controls. Back a few months ago I created a very simple version of a Silverlight Rating control and thought it would be a great example to demonstrate how to leverage Control Templates, Visual State [...]
RatingControl with Theme support
November 8, 2008
Templated Silverlight Rating Control
September 10, 2008
Anyone that has been working with the standard set of controls for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been exposed to the concept of template binding and how VisualStateManager (VSM) controls state. In this example I will build a templated control to learn how to use VSM, template binding and the ContentControl base class.
The control [...]
Silverlight how-to: Video Player
April 10, 2008
Please note: This sample was made into a Code Plex project and is maintained there. Please download all source from http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer/
In my ongoing quest to work with Silverlight 2 I embarked on building my own video player using the standard MediaElement and a few of the new System Controls (ToggleButon, Slider and Button). My [...]
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