Archives / 2008 / June

  • Observing Silverlight From a Speeding Car

    Wednesday, June 04, 2008
    I've been putting myself through a crash course on Silverlight\WPF these last few days and here are a few random thoughts.  All of this is after a 60 minute breakneck tour of WPF\Silverlight so I'm more than likely missing a whole bunch of things and probably doing things bass-ackwards but hey, that's why they call it learning. There are three stock layout managers (used for placing controls): Canvas, Stack & Grid.  Where is the CSS-style panel?  If designing web pages has taught us anything it's that the grid quickly gets cumbersome.  Note to self if I get hired at Microsoft: