This is a photo finish folks!  Obama was elected Tuesday night.  Friday, he held his first press conference and he managed to piss off 2 people pretty badly.When a reporter asked Obama if he had spoken with any ex-presidents since his election on Tuesday, he responded that he had spoken... [Read More]

The 2nd most popular article I’ve had on this blog has nothing to do with programming.  While that could be depressing under a certain light, I think it’s actually quite telling of an interesting situation.  I love my Kensington Expert Mouse, but it’s not supported under Vista.  I wrote an... [Read More]

This is something that has bitten me several times, so I thought I’d write it down.  Maybe I’ll remember, and maybe I’ll help others when they hit this too. The scenario happens when you want to create a new control that can have a template applied to it.  Let’s start... [Read More]

One of the reasons why the ViewModel pattern is so powerful in Silverlight and WPF is because Binding Converters can do so much.  As we saw in HelloWorld.ViewModel, a ViewModel can expose a boolean property that is consumed as a Visibility value for controls.  This requires some glue to convert... [Read More]

I just updated my HelloWorld.ViewModel post from earlier today to include the full source code as well as a running app (and a screen shot). Running app here. Source code here.