Monthly Archives: October 2011

Debugging visual tree/layout issues in Silverlight and on Windows Phone

Posted on Sunday, 2011-10-30 by

Many times, especially when you are doing dynamic layouts, dealing with bindings and DataTemplates – you start scratching your head trying to figure out why your control is not showing up where you want it to show, how to fix … Continue reading →

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The quest for a Bindable ApplicationBar – Part 2

Posted on Friday, 2011-10-28 by

Seems like the application bar finally works for predefined buttons. Next step – binding to ItemsSource-like view model collections for buttons and menu items and getting “ElementName bindings” to work… For now – this will have to be it. I … Continue reading →

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Workaround for binding not supported on Style/Setter/Value in Silverlight

Posted on Wednesday, 2011-10-26 by

This morning I was trying to bind the Orientation property of a PanoramaItem to a panorama item view model bound to the Panorama through its ItemsSource property and kept getting this weird exception when Silverlight was parsing the xaml stating … Continue reading →

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The quest for a Bindable ApplicationBar – Part 1

Posted on Friday, 2011-10-21 by

The funny thing about MVVM is that you might get so hooked on it that when you find something that just does not work with MVVM – you start trying to figure out how to bend it to the right … Continue reading →

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