http://www.drdobbs.com//author/6937 Dr. Dobb's Copyright 2012, United Business Media. en-us http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/final-release-of-silverlight-tools-for-v/228701297 <hr> If you haven't already heard the news, the final release of the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=902a7539-c4b5-4e54-b4c9-1432daabe1e8&displaylang=en">Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2010</a> has been released!</p> Tue, 18 May 2010 05:01:49 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/text-trimming-in-silverlight-4/228700170 <hr> Silverlight 4 has a lot of great features that can be used to build consumer and Line of Business (LOB) applications. Although Webcam support, RichTextBox, MEF, WebBrowser and other new features are pretty exciting, I'm actually enjoying some of the more simple features that have been added such as text trimming, built-in wheel scrolling with ScrollViewer and data binding enhancements such as StringFormat. In this post I give a quick introduction to a simple yet productive feature called "text trimming" and show how it eliminates a lot of code compared to Silverlight 3.</p> Thu, 06 May 2010 04:45:48 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/using-the-new-silverlight-designer-in-vi/228700631 Silverlight developers everywhere rejoice! We now have a designer that can be used directly in Visual Studio 2010 which means you can drag-and-drop controls onto the design surface, access control properties, and modify them visually, set <b>Grid</b> columns and rows, plus more. Although I'm a huge fan of Expression Blend, it's nice to be able to modify controls directly without having to open up another program. If you're working on Silverlight 3 projects and are ready to move to Visual Studio 2010 you can continue to target version 3 while taking advantage of the new designer features.</p> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:57:53 -0400 http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/visual-studio-2010s-new-intellitrace-fea/228700927 I'm at DevConnections this week in Las Vegas speaking at the Visual Studio 2010 launch event and had a chance to catch up with one of my favorite people -- Ward Bell. Ward is the Vice President of <a href="http://www.ideablade.com">IdeaBlade</a> and was one of the presenters during Scott Guthrie's keynote address. He covered an interesting new feature called "IntelliTrace" that provides a way to capture information during a debug session. Ward and I sat down for a quick chat to talk more about what IntelliTrace offers .NET developers.</p> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:51:10 -0400