Cloning Entities in Silverlight 26 March 2011 Diederik-Krols Spatial Here's a nice little extension method that returns a deep copy of a relatively simple object - like an Entity or a Data Transfer Object. It is based on the DataContractSerializer, so the object should be serializable through XML or a DataContract. The extension works from Silverlight 2 upwards... [More]
Turning Silverlight Application Themes into Toolkit Themes 16 March 2011 Diederik-Krols Spatial Not every development team is blessed with a professional graphical designer. So I can imagine that a lot of developers appreciate a free, nice, and very complete set of themes, such as the Silverlight 4 Application Themes. Tim Heuer's team has built for us the following themes: JetPack, Accent... [More]
Themebuilding in Silverlight 02 March 2011 Diederik-Krols Silverlight In this short article I'll show you how to transform a resource dictionary with colors, brushes, styles and templates into a real theme - à la Silverlight toolkit themes - and how to apply it to a region in the user interface. I'll build a theme called Glass. Building the theme Ea... [More]