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Silverlight – Binding ResourceDictionaries
March 17th, 2009 | 
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In the last two Silverlight posts I’ve introduced databinding in Silverlight. We’ve seen that databinding, while similar to what we’ve experienced in Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications, is markedly different in Silverlight. Today’s topic further illustrates the differences by asserting that you can bind Resources, or more accurately Resource Dictionaries, to your controls.
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Friday Books – Silverlight 2 Recipes
Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every–day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready–made code recipes that will save you hours of coding time.
The recipes included in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach have been carefully selected and tested with the professional developer in mind. You’ll find clearly and succinctly stated problems, well–architected solutions, and ample discussion of the code and context so you can see immediately how the solution will support your project.
Friday Books – Data-Driven Services with SL2
This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft’s new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:
Silverlight – Databinding
When I was learning DataBinding in both .NET 1.0 and .NET 2.0, I quickly discovered that most of what I learned about DataBinding for ASP.NET was useless as I moved to Windows Forms and what I learned about DataBinding for Windows Forms was useless when it came to developing for ASP.NET.
So it really shouldn’t be much of a surprise that DataBinding in Silverlight has little to nothing to do with DataBinding in ASP.NET or Windows Forms.
While there ARE similarities between the three, you’ll do yourself a huge favor if you remember that you aren’t in Kansas anymore and start from scratch.
Silverlight – Wire up your form for programming
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, learning Silverlight is a lot more about relearning some basic assumptions than it is about learning a new language. We’ve already looked at the basic layout managers available and how that impacts putting a screen together. Today we want to look at how we can capture events and access the controls from our CSharp code.
