One of the typical things that you may want to accomplish on a particular UI implementation in Silverlight is to have a default button that is triggered through the use of the enter key. For this Silverlight provides support UI Automation through a set

You may be using BlogEngine.NET 2.7 for your blogging solution like I am and have run into a rather sticky situation in which Settings values from non scalar entities are not saving the values of properties if they are anything other than

Here’s a fairly common question that can be solved fairly easily. Sometimes when you have a ListBox of Items you would like for those items to stretch the available width of the ListBox. Sounds pretty straightforward right? Given we have something similar to

Thanks for everyone that attended the webinar. Pragmatic Works should have the video up by the end of the week. I know that we obviously wen a little long and I don’t think I answered everyone’s questions so feel free to hit

Okay so just a quick post here to give some kudos to Skybladev2 for developing this cool little add-in that replaces the default C# outline behavior to allow it to add outlining for all braces {} in your code. I found it a little annoying

RadWindow within the Telerik toolkit is an awesome resource for creating stylish windows. However, it also has the added benefit of providing you with some out-of-the-box implementations of dialog boxes. Specifically it comes with three separate ones.. Alert Confirm Prompt These are useful because

In our third installment, we will look at the latest version of CodeRush and how we can implement a custom template for Caliburn.Micro that takes care of a custom property setter for us. Now in the latest version of CodeRush there is already

Okay, so Telerik makes a fabulous suite of tools which include the RadComboBox control. Now if we want to take our previous example of a list of people the combobox works very well for selecting a list of items as shown in the the

So a lot of the time you may be wanting to create a scenario that is not quite out of the box…such as a user being able to double-click on an object that doesn’t natively support a double-click event. Caliburn.Micro does

Interesting enough today that I sat on a webcast concerning Caliburn.Micro that they talked specifically about how to troubleshoot your bindings and was surprised that the presenter did not seem to know about the ability to log from Caliburn.Micro. Not really surprising

I often give presentations at Code Camps and such on how to easily assimilate new Microsoft technologies into your everyday coding tool belt. However, I have decided to start a series in order to demonstrate how to use Microsoft & non-Microsoft implemented solutions …some

Thanks to everyone whom attended the webcast. As promised, here are the sample files as well as the information so that you can download the webcast…if you should so choose. Live Meeting Recording Demo Files Remember if you have any ideas for webcasts