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Silverlight 4 Multi-Binding Converter Enhancement

By Damien White | Published: September 15, 2011

We have been using Colin Eberhardt’s MultiBinding Converter for Silverlight for quite a while now. It was great until we realized a problem.  When the MultiBinding Converter was off screen (hidden), it would throw a binding error stating that it couldn’t convert null to whatever (in our case it was an integer in one converter [...]

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Silverlight 4 Drop-Down Problems in Popup

By Damien White | Published: September 12, 2011

Are you running Silverlight and using a Popup and a “drop-down” control like a ComboBox (or DatePicker, TimePicker, etc) as a child? You may be seeing some odd behavior when you expand the ComboBox. The “drop-down bit” ends up positioned from the left of your screen, not where it is supposed to be positioned.  Hmmm. [...]

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Data Access and Silverlight 4

By Damien White | Published: December 20, 2010

You’ve decided to create a new business application (meaning some n-tier application) using Silverlight as the frontend.  Is Silverlight the best choice?  That’s a debate for another post…  Anyway, now it comes to deciding on a data access strategy, which one do you choose?  Well this is one of those things where there is no [...]

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Silverlight 3 ElementName DataBinding Problem

By Damien White | Published: November 19, 2009

I’ve been using Silverlight 3 heavily for the past few months, and during that time have discovered many things to love and hate.  One problem I faced with Silverlight 3 (that I should have blogged about earlier) is something I think many developers may have faced.  In the application I’ve been working on, we’ve broken [...]

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Silverlight 3 NavigationCacheMode To The Rescue

By Damien White | Published: September 22, 2009

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a new project for a client involving Silverlight 3 and the Silverlight Virtual Earth CTP.  One reoccurring issue that keeps coming up is performance, and I’m always looking for ways to balance functionality with speed.  In the app we are loading up a Virtual Earth map and populating [...]

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