Following on from my last post on "Why do normal people not use Live Search?" , I think I might have found the answer. I'm not convinced "non techies" have heard of Live Search. I asked a couple of folks yesterday who…( read more )…(read more)
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View Comments David Silverlight (isn’t that the second best name you’ve ever heard?) runs Community Credit whose slogan is “We give stupid prizes to smart people.” The idea is to recognize and reward folks for participating in the geek community, and he…( read more )…(read more)
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For those of you working with Silverlight 2 , are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other…( read more )…(read more)
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You may have noticed that right clicking on a Silverlight application brings up the following context menu and configuration dialog: Context Menu: Configuration Dialog: So what if you want to use right click in your application? While right click functionality is not currently supported in Silverlight, there is a work-around. I will step you through how to intercept the right click event, process it and display your own content instead of the Silverlight dialog. Step 1. To start, let’s add a <TextBlock>…(read more)
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