Background API’s at TechEd North America and Europe
It looks like my first opportunity to speak at TechEd will be followed up by my second opportunity a few weeks later. I will be presenting on Windows 8 Background API’s at both TechEd North America and Tech Europe 2013. It’s quite an exciting opportunity to for a little old computer geek from Texas and [...]
CXML and DeepZoom on Azure
I have been migrating my sites to Azure over the last month. The last couple of sites to go were the sample sites for PivotViewer Lessons. In doing so I also moved over a CXML collection of the MIX 10 videos. During the migration I realized that the MIME mappings for DeepZoom and CXML needed [...]
Examining the Windows Store apps AppxManifest at Runtime
If you have spent any time at all working on Windows Store apps, then you have become familiar with the package.appxmanifest file. This is a very important part of your application and helps define how your application will run within Windows 8. At a very basic level, this is where you set things like the [...]
Semantic Zoom with Silverlight 5 PivotViewer
If you have visited this blog before, you might have noticed a few posts on the Silverlight PivotViewer. The September issue of Visual Studio Magazine includes my first published article, which maybe fittingly is centered on PivotViewer. The article introduces the concept of semantic zoom with PivotViewer and how to get up and running with [...]
Hacking PivotViewer : Pan
Continuing on with the Hacking PivotViewer series, in this post we will look at accessing and modifying the current pan position. As I mentioned in the first post, Hacking PivotViewer : Zoom, there is always more than one way to attack some of these problems. In doing the research for this post, I came across [...]
Hacking PivotViewer : Zoom
If you have been following my blog, you know that there are quite a few posts here on PivotViewer. If you haven’t seem them, you can find them all here: PivotViewer posts. The Silverlight 5 PivotViewer provides a laundry list of new features and enhancements, but there is still several areas that simply weren’t addressed [...]
PivotViewer Multi-Valued Properties
Defining properties in the new PivotViewer is rather straight forward, but I was recently asked about defining a multi-valued property. In the original PivotViewer, the CXML item would simply contain multiple entries for a given property and the PivotViewer would do the rest. Fortunately, PivotViewer still handles most of the details for us, with a [...]
MVPChat : A PivotViewer Use Case
For the past year, the Microsoft MVP Program has been holding Twitter chats. The idea is that for a given date/time (usually a 1-2 hr window), you could be involved in a group conversation by following the #mvpchat hash tag. During the first conversation, as I watched the feed blow by at amazing speed, I [...]
Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style
I was recently working with another developer on a ComboBox, where he needed to be able to disable certain items in the ComboBox (aka make them non-selectable). Having been a while since I looked at it, all I could remember was it was not as easy as it should be. In coming up with a [...]
PivotViewer Basics: Custom Item Adorners
Well we are coming to the end of the PivotViewer Basics series. To round it out, I thought I would continue on with the last post which discussed Basic Item Adorners. In that post we looked at implementing the custom actions that you found in the first PivotViewer. This post will look at taking it [...]
