Ben Lemmon's Code Ramblings

Reading zip files from Silverlight

Silverlight doesn't have any classes from the System.IO.Compression namespace, but it's gone...

Date: 11/25/2009

Using the preprocessor to share incompatible XAML between SL and WPF – Part 1

One of the goals of Silverlight is to be a subset of WPF so that you can cross-compile the code...

Date: 04/29/2009

Piping Converters in WPF and Silverlight

One limitation in WPF and Silverlight is that a Binding can only have one converter. At least for...

Date: 03/22/2009

Animating margins in Silverlight

So I ran into a problem the other day where I needed to animate a margin of a control, but...

Date: 03/17/2009

Introduction

Before we get off to the fun stuff (a.k.a. programming), I think it's best for me to introduce...

Date: 03/17/2009