Tag: Silverlight

Reached “Design – All Star” in design .toolbox

Reached “Design – All Star” in design .toolbox

 .toolbox is a really fun environment to learn basic design concepts as well as the fundamentals of creating Silverlight applications using Expression Studio. Today, I finished both the tracks (i.e. principles and scenarios) and achieved all 15 badges. The high quality tutorials and evaluations, and a very nice theme make it really enjoyable. Check…

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Fundamentals of Design

Fundamentals of Design

Microsoft has developed an amazing e-learning website called .toolbox for creating Silverlight applications using Expression Studio. The site focuses on design aspects rather than development. Being a developer, I am always intrigued by design tools like Flash, Blend and Photoshop and want to improve my design skills.  So I have started going through the tutorials…

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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool from Microsoft for developing business applications. Currently available development technologies from Microsoft (like VS C#) are general purpose and can be used to develop a wide variety of applications. LightSwitch, on the other hand, is focused on simplifying development of business applications by handling the basic plumbing itself.…

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Save and Load RichTextBox content in WPF

Save and Load RichTextBox content in WPF

The content of RichTextBox can be saved to a file (or any other stream) using TextRange class. It supports following four formats: System.Windows.DataFormats.Text : This saves the plain text in the content of RichTextBox excluding the formatting information and the images. System.Windows.DataFormats.Rtf : This saves the content in RTF format preserving formating information and images.…

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