WP7 - adding a ‘Fade to Black’ effect to a ListBox

I wanted to have a small and ‘nice’ application in which to experiment things related to networking and graphic effects in WP7, so I took out the ‘My WP7 Brand’ project from CodePlex and started to customize it, this is how ‘All About PrimordialCode’


Silverlight: how to fix the Silverlight Toolkit templates to add Validation States

Using the control templates provided by the Silverlight toolkit I just noticed that those style do not support the validation states for displaying validation errors. Since you have access to the templates adding them is a quite easy - but bor...


Silverlight: Custom Buttons with Templates

Sometimes you want to define a consistent look for all you application and maybe you completely replace the template of a control (lets say...a button :D), then you want to use the same template with small variations (colors or images for examp...