Behaviors, which implement a mechanism for wrapping control functionality into reusable blocks, were introduced in Expression Blend 3. They're not a new concept; packaging control event handlers in a separate, reusable class has been possible since .Net wa...
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Every 12 months I'm faced with the task of paying annual fees to renew the lease on my domains. When the time comes, and it always does, I'm accosted with a familiar pang of guilt: How little attention I pay my poor, neglected site. Am I consistent in shar...
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Typing in a text box is the most common means by which programs collect information from a user. Whether collecting a date stamp, a product key, or a phone number, specific pieces of information often have restrictions on their form. For example, a perso...
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It's been a few months, but I've finally gotten around to finishing an article promised months ago about configuring Subtext 1.9.5b to support images when blogging from Word 2007. As chance would have it, this comes just a week after Subtext 2.0 is release...
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It's been roughly two months since I tossed it all away and started over, but I think the site is close enough to actually begin using now. My last post listed six items I arbitrarily mandated as the criteria by with the site's skinning could be judged was...
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If you've been tracking the site for the last few weeks, you've probably noticed the substantial progress made in skinning it. Skinning is, of course, a bit misleading since much of my skinning time has been spent adding new functionality to SubText (the b...
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Ah, that's a little bit better (I'm referring, of course, to the progress of skinning this site). It has been a little more than a week since I tossed the home brewed, half completed CodingMonk out the window and adopted SubText. Overall, I am pleased, f...
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If you're a returning visitor, you may be surprised to find yourself looking at a completely changed and entirely generic webpage, devoid of the decorations that have dressed this site for the last several years. Well, I'm undergoing something of a chang...
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