Articles by Colin Eberhardt (Articles: 29, Technical Blogs: 51)

Articles: 29, Technical Blogs: 51

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Database Development
Data Visualization	Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight 8 Mar 2012 Updated: 9 Mar 2012 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 90 Popularity: 9.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 152,116 Bookmarked: 90 Downloaded: 1,827 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the creation of a circular relationship graph, which plots a network of interconnected nodes as a circle.
Desktop Programming
WPF	Exposing Bindings as Properties of a Control 19 Jun 2009 Updated: 19 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,711 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Demonstrates how to create versatile controls which expose bindings for the elements which they contain internally
	Developing an Autofilter ListView 8 Jul 2008 Updated: 8 Jul 2008 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 160,949 Bookmarked: 100 Downloaded: 5,360 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of an Excel-like Autofilter ListView.
	A WPF Pie Chart with Data Binding Support 24 Jul 2008 Updated: 24 Jul 2008 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 86 Popularity: 9.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 440,388 Bookmarked: 241 Downloaded: 13,839 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of an interactive pie chart which uses data binding.
	Bullet Graphs - A Custom Control - WPF vs. Windows Forms 10 Oct 2008 Updated: 10 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 8.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 184,043 Bookmarked: 163 Downloaded: 6,359 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article compares the development of a Line of Business control, the Bullet Graph, in both WPF and Windows Forms.
	WPF DataGrid Practical Examples 12 Nov 2008 Updated: 1 Feb 2009 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 256 Popularity: 11.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,131,382 Bookmarked: 800 Downloaded: 65,360 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides a number of practical examples which demonstrate how to perform validation, styling, and DataSet integration with the new WPF DataGrid.
	Generate WPF and Silverlight Dependency Properties using T4 Templates 28 Apr 2009 Updated: 28 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 103,805 Bookmarked: 65 Downloaded: 1,023 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes how to generate Dependency Properties from an XML declaration using a simple T4 template. It also includes a quick T4 primer.
	The mini-ViewModel Pattern 7 Aug 2009 Updated: 7 Aug 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,741 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mini-ViewModel pattern
	Declarative Dependency Property Definition with T4 + DTE 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,612 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes a technique for specifying WPF / Silverlight Dependency Properties declaratively via attributes.
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	XAMLFinance – A Cross-platform WPF, Silverlight & WP7 Application 19 Sep 2011 Updated: 21 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 99 Popularity: 9.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 216,176 Bookmarked: 251 Downloaded: 9,941 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of XAML Finance, a cross-platform application which works on the desktop, using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), on the web, using Silverlight and on Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
	A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List 25 Jul 2012 Updated: 6 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 140,214 Bookmarked: 83 Downloaded: 2,050 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of a Windows Phone to-do list application that eschews buttons and checkboxes in favour of gestures.
	Property Finder – a Cross-Platform Xamarin MonoTouch Mobile App 2 Jan 2013 Updated: 3 Jan 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 78,390 Bookmarked: 48 Downloaded: 1,163 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A look at how Xamarin MonoTouch allows you to create cross-platform applications, using the native C# / Silverlight for Windows Phone and C#, via Xamarin MonoTouch, for iOS.
	Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control 10 Mar 2011 Updated: 18 May 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,185 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 2,188 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 7 Jump List control, giving a step-by-step account of the control's development (and a pretty flashy control to use at the end of it!).
	Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application 9 Oct 2012 Updated: 9 Oct 2012 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,253 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 878 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes my experiences of porting a novel gesture-driven Windows Phone app to Windows 8.
Programming Languages
ASM	A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code 4 Jan 2013 Updated: 4 Jan 2013 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 112,946 Bookmarked: 121 Downloaded: 1,564 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking application that uses a number of the new Windows Phone 8 features.
C#	Implementing RelativeSource binding in Silverlight 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,010 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog post shows how to create FindAncestor and RelativeSource.Self bindings with Silverlight 2.0
	ElementName Binding in Silverlight via Attached Behaviours 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,800 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog post shows how to perform element name bindings purely within XAML in Silverlight 2.0
	Silverlight MultiBindings, How to Attach Multiple Bindings to a Single Property 25 Jun 2009 Updated: 15 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,551 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes a technique for associating multiple bindings with a single dependency property within Silverlight applications. WPF already has this functionality in the form of MultiBindings, the code in this post emulates this function.
	The Art of Logging 14 Sep 2009 Updated: 24 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 92 Popularity: 9.58 Licence: CPOL Views: 301,770 Bookmarked: 304 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides guidelines for logging within your web or desktop applications, answering questions such as when to log, what to log, and how to log.
	LINQ to Tree - A Generic Technique for Querying Tree-like Structures 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 4 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 111 Popularity: 9.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 359,420 Bookmarked: 234 Downloaded: 3,137 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents a generic approach to applying LINQ queries to tree like structures. Using T4 templates for code generation, LINQ to VisualTree (WPF), LINQ to WinForms, and LINQ to FileSystem APIs are constructed.
	ReversiEight - A Windows 8 Reversi Game 20 May 2013 Updated: 22 May 2013 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,735 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 695 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes the development of a Windows 8 Reversi game, covering the topics of UI design, the minimax algorithm and an interesting use for Linq.
Javascript	Understanding JavaScript Object Creation Patterns 27 Nov 2013 Updated: 4 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 83 Popularity: 9.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 189,351 Bookmarked: 129 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explores the various ways you can create objects with the JavaScript language, and through this exploration finds that there is much to learn about the language!
	KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight 12 Apr 2012 Updated: 16 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 67 Popularity: 9.12 Licence: CPOL Views: 158,628 Bookmarked: 96 Downloaded: 1,051 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article compares Silverlight and KnockoutJS by looking at the implementation of the same application with both frameworks and tries to answer the all-important question "which framework is best?"
Visual Basic	Declarative Codesnippet Automation with T4 Templates 20 Apr 2011 Updated: 20 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,383 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 1,427 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a technique for automating codesnippets which are associated with a class via attributes. This results in a declarative approach to the generation of boiler-plate code.
XML	Adding a Location Crosshair to Silverlight Charts 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,450 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog post details the differences in the latest release of the Silverlight charts and shows how to add a location crosshair.
Silverlight
	Silverlight ClipToBounds - Can I Clip It?, Yes You Can! 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,385 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog posts shows how to add a new property ClipToBounds to clip your UI Elements.
Web Development
HTML	Exploring Reactive Extensions (Rx) through Twitter and Bing Maps Mashups 2 Dec 2010 Updated: 2 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,911 Bookmarked: 63 Downloaded: 810 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I give a brief introduction to Reactive Extensions, then explore their use within Silverlight by creating a Twitter / Bing Maps mashup.
HTML5	From Silverlight to HTML5 1 Jul 2011 Updated: 4 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 8.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 208,188 Bookmarked: 106 Downloaded: 1,817 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes my experiences of taking a control written in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and making it cross-platform by re-implementing it using JavaScript and HTML5.
	Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App 23 Aug 2012 Updated: 3 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 8.22 Licence: CPOL Views: 133,441 Bookmarked: 94 Downloaded: 2,367 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.

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	Google Sky on Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 20 May 2011 Updated: 20 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,431 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post shows just how easy it is to use Google Sky as a tile source for Bing Maps, bringing the universe to Windows Phone 7! Personally I think mapping is one of the most exciting forms of application for mobile devices – the fantastic imagery available from Bing and Google maps,
	Forcing Event Consumer Cleanup without Weak Events [Technical Blog] 22 Feb 2010 Updated: 22 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,511 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes a simple technique for ensuring that consumers of events unsubscribe their event handlers without the need for weak events.
	Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation [Technical Blog] 19 Jul 2011 Updated: 19 Jul 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,430 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation
Desktop Programming
WPF	A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight [Technical Blog] 7 Feb 2012 Updated: 7 Feb 2012 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,089 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for creating a user control, which exposes bindable properties, in WPF and Silverlight. The post covers dependency properties, and how to manage DataContext inheritance.
	Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures [Technical Blog] 2 Jun 2009 Updated: 2 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,201 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple lesson regarding the speed of dependency properties ... and a funky Oscilloscope!
	Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF) [Technical Blog] 24 May 2011 Updated: 24 May 2011 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,723 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to automatically show ToolTips on a trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)
	A Universal Value Converter for WPF [Technical Blog] 9 Jul 2010 Updated: 9 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,210 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple IValueConverter implementation that makes use of the framework type converters in order to convert between a large range of source / target types
	Modal dialogs in cross-platform WPF/Silverlight applications [Technical Blog] 18 Jun 2010 Updated: 18 Jun 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,691 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post looks at the problem of showing modal dialog windows in applications that target both the Silverlight and WPF platforms. A solution is provided which allows modal dialogs to be written that work well for both technologies.
	Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF [Technical Blog] 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,770 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog post details a novel technique for leveraging the power of CSS selectors within WPF.
jQuery
	Integrating Knockout and jQueryMobile [Technical Blog] 23 Oct 2012 Updated: 23 Oct 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,101 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Issues regarding integration of KnockoutJS and jQueryMobile, and a simple working example – a Twitter Search application – where the two technologies play nicely together!
	Comparing KendoUI and Knockout (With a Bit of jQueryMobile on the Side) [Technical Blog] 8 Apr 2013 Updated: 8 Apr 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,280 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A comparison of KendoUI and Knockout with a bit of jQueryMobile on the side
Metro-design
	WinRT Transitions – Creating Fast and Fluid Metro UIs [Technical Blog] 17 Oct 2011 Updated: 17 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,374 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post looks at the new concept of ‘transitions’ that WinRT, within Windows 8, introduces.
Mobile Apps
	TweetSearch – A Cross Platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight Application [Technical Blog] 16 Sep 2011 Updated: 16 Sep 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,991 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. TweetSearch – A cross platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight Application
	Introducing PropertyCross – Helping You Select a Cross-platform Mobile Framework [Technical Blog] 23 Dec 2012 Updated: 23 Dec 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,250 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The aim of PropertyCross is to make it easier for developers to choose a suitable framework from the ever-growing range of cross-platform mobile application development frameworks. This blog post provides a little bit of background to the project.
iPhone	An Introduction and Thoughts on Developing iOS Applications with MonoTouch [Technical Blog] 31 Jul 2012 Updated: 31 Jul 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,280 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes the creation of a simple Twitter search application for iOS, based on a similar application I wrote for Windows Phone a few months back.
Windows Phone 7	Metro In Motion Part #6 – Rolling List Location Indicator [Technical Blog] 6 Jun 2011 Updated: 6 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,150 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes the development of a rolling list location indicator.
	Everything You Wanted to Know About databinding in WPF, Silverlight, and WP7 (Part One) [Technical Blog] 26 Apr 2012 Updated: 26 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,471 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.
	A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 17 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,710 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 217 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes a Windows Phone 7 NavigationList control, a list control designed for navigation pages. The NavigationList renders twice as fast as a ListBox and has a slightly simpler API.
	A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips [Technical Blog] 8 Dec 2011 Updated: 8 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,340 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A slide view with page pips on Windows Phone 7
	Metro in Motion Part #1 – Fluid List Animation [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 17 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,900 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 257 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post presents an attached behaviour that gracefully slides the contents of a list into view when used in conjunction with a Pivot control, emulating the Windows Phone 7 email application.
	Metro in Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 18 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,361 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 137 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to implement the animated 'peel' effect seen when native Windows Phone 7 applications exit
	Metro in Motion Part #3 – Flying Titles! [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 18 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,541 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 126 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this blog post, I look at how to implement the fly-out fly-in effect seen in native Windows Phone 7 applications. This effect is seen in the native mail application; when you click on a message, the title flies out of the list then flies back in as the title of the message page.
	Metro in Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 18 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,422 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 229 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes the implementation of a metro ’tilt’ effect for Windows Phone 7 which causes element to respond to user interactions by tilting in 3D.
	Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow [Technical Blog] 19 May 2011 Updated: 19 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,600 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow
	Windows Phone 7 Performance Measurements – Emulator vs. Hardware [Technical Blog] 20 May 2011 Updated: 20 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,231 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A few performance measurements that detail the relative performance of ItemsControl, ListBox and manual addition of elements to the UI
	Windows Phone 7 DeferredLoadContentControl [Technical Blog] 24 May 2011 Updated: 24 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,190 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple content control that can be used to defer the rendering of its contents in order to provide a better user experience on Windows Phone 7
	A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example [Technical Blog] 24 May 2011 Updated: 24 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,821 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that follows the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
	Metro In Motion Part #7 – Panorama Prettiness and Opacity [Technical Blog] 16 Jun 2011 Updated: 16 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,630 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple metro-in-motion behaviour which reduces the Panorama control’s contents while the user slides from item-to-item so that they can really appreciate your fancy background graphic!
	Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View [Technical Blog] 19 Jul 2011 Updated: 19 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,151 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a conversation view, mimicking the SMS messaging interface within Windows Phone 7
	Capturing Windows Phone 7 Panorama Images [Technical Blog] 5 Aug 2011 Updated: 5 Aug 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,260 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to capture Windows Phone 7 Panorama images
	Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View - Part Two [Technical Blog] 8 Aug 2011 Updated: 8 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,680 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes how to implement a conversation / messaging style application with Windows Phone 7. It covers how to style the speech bubbles and the scrolling of the conversation list view when the phone keyboard is shown.
	Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 Apps with PhoneGap [Technical Blog] 30 Sep 2011 Updated: 30 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,140 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Step-by-step development of a Windows Phone 7 HTML5 application using PhoneGap
	A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example [Technical Blog] 17 Oct 2011 Updated: 17 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,840 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example
	Windows Phone 7 – Browsing Your Photos via Bing Maps [Technical Blog] 16 Jan 2012 Updated: 16 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,571 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 7 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps
	Enhanced Windows Phone 8 Map Gestures [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2013 Updated: 15 Apr 2013 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,781 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes the addition of a two-finger rotation and three-finger pitch gesture to the Windows Phone 8 Map control.
MVVM
	MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart [Technical Blog] 19 May 2011 Updated: 19 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,560 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A method of using attached properties to bind a ViewModel which contains multiple data series to a Visiblox chart without any code-behind
	ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation [Technical Blog] 13 May 2011 Updated: 14 May 2011 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,661 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post describes a novel method of generating boiler-plate MVVM code using codesnippet automation.
Programming Languages
C#	Helpful Extension Methods for Show / Hide Animations in Silverlight [Technical Blog] 27 Sep 2009 Updated: 28 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,040 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Today's blog post is a couple of very simple utility methods that I have found myself using again and again ...
	Rippling Reflection Effect with Silverlight 3’s WriteableBitmap [Technical Blog] 22 Feb 2010 Updated: 22 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,970 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Rippling reflection effect with Silverlight 3's WriteableBitmap
	Binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to Dynamic Data via IDictionary (Updated) [Technical Blog] 26 Mar 2010 Updated: 26 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,470 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post is a bug fix (due to differences between SL2 and SL3) and expansion on my previous posts on this subject.
	Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive [Technical Blog] 15 Jun 2010 Updated: 15 Jun 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,930 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive
	Adding Error Bars to Visiblox Silverlight Charts [Technical Blog] 1 Nov 2011 Updated: 1 Nov 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,010 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this blog post, I will show how to implement a custom Visiblox chart series to render error bars.
Objective C	LINQ to Objective-C [Technical Blog] 25 Feb 2013 Updated: 25 Feb 2013 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,331 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating a LINQ-style API for Objective-C has proven to be relatively simple (and fun!). I have provided implementations for some of the most common and useful LINQ methods, however the .NET LINQ APIs for querying collections have a great many more methods than the ones I have covered.
XML	Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight [Technical Blog] 20 Oct 2011 Updated: 20 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,170 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An implementation of IPagedCollectionView which allows paging of data from the server
	Developing a (very) Lookless Silverlight Radial Gauge Control [Technical Blog] 19 Aug 2010 Updated: 19 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,921 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Development of a lookless radial gauge control
	A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel [Technical Blog] 24 May 2011 Updated: 24 May 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,481 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to re-template the Silverlight ProgressBar control to render a circular progress indicator
	LINQ to Visual Tree [Technical Blog] 4 Mar 2010 Updated: 15 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,641 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post demonstrates a Linq API which can be used to query the WPF / Silverlight Visual Tree.
Silverlight
	Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data Part 2 - editable data and INotifyPropertyChanged [Technical Blog] 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,902 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog post shows how to bind a DataGrid to dynamic data where the properties are not know at design / compile-time.
	Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary [Technical Blog] 16 May 2009 Updated: 17 May 2009 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 98,693 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This technical blog post shows how to bind a DataGrid to dynamic data where the properties are not known at design / compile-time.
	Exposing and Binding to a Silverlight ScrollViewer’s Scrollbars [Technical Blog] 21 Jul 2010 Updated: 22 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,971 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An attached behaviour that exposes the ScrollViewer's horizontal / vertical offset as dependency properties that permit binding
	Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (Part 2) [Technical Blog] 21 Oct 2010 Updated: 21 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,500 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 21 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to develop a lookless Silverlight Guage control - Part 2

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Colin Eberhardt

Architect Scott Logic

United Kingdom

I am CTO at ShinobiControls, a team of iOS developers who are carefully crafting iOS charts, grids and controls for making your applications awesome.

I am a Technical Architect for Visiblox which have developed the world's fastest WPF / Silverlight and WP7 charts.

I am also a Technical Evangelist at Scott Logic, a provider of bespoke financial software and consultancy for the retail and investment banking, stockbroking, asset management and hedge fund communities.

Visit my blog - Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in .NET.

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Articles by Colin Eberhardt (Articles: 29, Technical Blogs: 51)

Articles: 29, Technical Blogs: 51

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