At Mix Essentials in Belgium, I delivered a session on working with Silverlight and data and services. Since the session was very well received and also the way the session was constructed, I decided to create a tutorial from it. This tutorial covers several scenario's for having Silverl... [More]

In this first real Silverlight article on my new blog (on which you are at the moment...), I'll be explaining how you can let Silverlight interact with the DOM (Document Object Model) of the page on which it resides. I'll be doing the demo's with the latest build of Visual Studio 2008,... [More]

As WPF is becoming more and more used, the list of available tools and controls is growing fast. Therefore, it seemed a good idea to list all the tools that I use or know but don't use yet, and share that list with you! Professional tools Visual Studio 2005 There's no doubt... [More]

With Windows Presentation Foundation coming closer to its release date with Vista almost being upon us, more and more people are taking a look at programming in WPF… Lately, people searching on Google for WPF-related information is soaring. How do you know that, you might ask? Well, in my l... [More]

In this tutorial, I'm going to explain several 2D effects that can be performed on images, using only XAML code. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know: how to create image refections how to skew images how to drop shadows So let's get to it! Create an empty WinFX... [More]