08/13/2012Video tutorial
Background - Course Cascading Style Sheets (CSS/CSS3) - Part 6 In this video, we will discuss how to work with background. We briefly experimented with backgrounds before. But today we will discuss that in detail. We will start by setting the background color for the page and other elements.
08/08/2012Video tutorial
List Styling - Course Cascading Style Sheets (CSS/CSS3) - Part 5 In this video, we will discuss how to style a list. We will create an unordered list and apply the different styles on it. Along the way, we will learn about the difference between display and visibility.
08/01/2012Video tutorial
Introduction to CSS - Course Cascading Style Sheets (CSS/CSS3) - Part 1 In this video, we start the CSS course. This course covers all you need to know about CSS. We will also discuss the new features added in CSS3. The examples will be simple HTML pages plus the CSS feature we are trying to explain.
07/19/2012Video tutorial
Templates - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 26 Today, we are taking this a step further by adding templates. With templates we can redefine the shape of a specific control. We will start with a simple square on the screen.
07/18/2012Video tutorial
Using Styles in Blend - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 25 In this video, we will experiment with creating styles and modifying styles. We will create different styles for different controls and see how we can override some properties.
07/16/2012Video tutorial
Complex Button - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 23 In this video, We will start working with controls that are a bit more complex than the ones we have seen before. We already know how to create a button and change its properties. But buttons do not have to contain only text.
07/10/2012Video tutorial
Introduction to Animation - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 20 In this video, We will introduce animation. Animation is about changing the properties of an object over a period of time. This is not something you can easily create in Visual Studio because there is a lot of XAML that you need to manipulate.
07/09/2012Video tutorial
Quick tour in Blend 4 - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 19 In this video, we will continue the introduction to Expression Blend 4. In the previous video we introduced Blend 4 and talked a little bit about the sample projects and the artboard.
07/06/2012Video tutorial
Introduction to Blend 4 - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 18 In this video, we will introduce Expression Blend 4. Expression Blend is a great design tool for WPF and Silverlight applications. You can use this tool to generate the XAML that you need for your applications.
07/05/2012Video tutorial
Binding To Objects - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 17 In this video, we continue our binding discussion by talking about binding to objects. We will create a list of images and their names on the left hand side and a stack panel that contains an image and a text block on the right hand side.
07/04/2012Video tutorial
Working with Binding - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 16 In this video, we continue our binding discussion. We will see how to use the OneWay binding by having a text box with an initial value. That value is bound to a rectangle’s stroke thickness.
07/03/2012Video tutorial
Introduction to Navigation - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 15 In this video, we start discussing navigation. After all the Silverlight application is in a browser and we need the ability to navigate between pages. To do so in our example, we will create a standard navigation application.
07/02/2012Video tutorial
Tab and Expander Controls - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 14 In this video, we are continuing our discussion of Silverlight controls. Mainly, we will be talking about the tab control and the expander control. Both of these controls will save you space on the page.
06/30/2012Video tutorial
Starting with Binding - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 13 In this video, we start talking about binding. We have seen binding before, but here we will talk about it in more detail. Binding can be OneTime, OneWay, or TwoWay.
06/29/2012Video tutorial
Styles - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 12 In this video, we will build on that concept by creating styles. The styles are created using resources, and they can target specific controls.
06/28/2012Video tutorial
Slider and TreeView - Microsoft Silverlight 5 - Lesson 11 Slider and TreeView are two standard controls that we are going to discuss today. We start first with the slider. We know that the slider orientation can be horizontal or vertical.