I've noticed a few posts on the Silverlight.NET forums concerning the customization of the X/Y-axis labels of the Silverlight Toolkit's Chart control: trying to get the text to wrap, trying to get the labels to display vertically instead of horizontally, ...  Well, this is easy to do (working... [More]

Ever felt the need to have something like a web.config-file, with settings you can change when they need to be changed without requiring a rebuild (eg: number of results in a grid, endpoints of certain services, certain ID's, ...)?  I know I have. But by default, this isn't so easy in Silverli... [More]

Last Wednesday, Microsoft got the chance to host a presentation on Silverlight at Devoxx, a big 4-day Belgian Java-event in Antwerp.  Yes, you read that correctly: a Java-event! :-)  Microsofts' Katrien De Graeve invited Ivan Porto Carrero and me to present a part of the talk to the audien... [More]

From time to time, it's handy to have a popup available in most applications (often a dialog popup, so the underlying controls aren't accessible anymore), even in Silverlight-apps.  But just letting it appear out of nowhere doesn't look too nice; it's ok for most apps, but for a Silverlight app... [More]

Up until a few weeks ago, I thought of Silverlight (and other RIA-techs) as a great technology, which could easily keep on existing next to the HTML-pages we're used to.  Newssites like CNN, blogs like Wordpress or Blogger, ...  I didn't think these would be replaced by RIA's anytime soon.... [More]