If you’ve just searched on “Flex 4 + cannot select ItemRenderer”, you may have ended up here. You see, I spent some time on that question recently and until I RTFM‘d the Flex 4 docs on the ItemRenderer class, I once more wrongfully jumped to the conclusion there’s a bug. You see, Flex 4 introduces [...]
Please excuse my absence with regards to this blog. I have been attending to aging parents in Florida while they get through some medical issues. I’d like to thank the professional staff at the Leesburg Regional Medical Center for their most professional care and knowledge. Other than noting the use of technology in the medical [...]
Over the weekend I watched and took notes on a three hour session (Gilligan’s Island.. A Three Hours Tour…) given at Mix 09 by Robby Ingebretson (blog) entitled “Design for Developers”. I have always tried to improve my design skills and have had minimal success. But I have fun at it and enjoy the creative [...]
In order to have behaviors show up in the Assets Tool so you can apply them to content on the artboard, you need to add a reference to a DLL containing the behaviors (after all they are created in code). Blend 3 Beta 1 ships with Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.dll which is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Expression\Blend [...]
Entity Framework is here to stay as Microsoft is steering future development towards its use. But if you use Entity Framework in your Silverlight apps, you may bump up against some hurdles trying to persist changes made to the Entities on the client back to the store. One design is to use WCF services as [...]
If you’ve ever hiked in the mountains you may understand the concept of the “false peak” where after busting your rump up a 30 degree slope for a couple of hours at 9000 feet elevation you finally reach what you thought was the top and there is another (higher) peak a few more hours and [...]
I was searching around for help on how I can display simple Silverlight apps in my blog posts. I use Kimili’s flash embedd for SWFs and wanted something similar for Silverlight. Tim Sneath posted that “Catherine Heller has written up a great post” on the subject. Tim offered up this one-liner to use: <iframe src=”http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/32/SlLogo/iframe.html” [...]
This is a new domain ( http://blog.flexforcefive.com ) for my (same old) blog! I’m sorry to make you go through the “pain and suffering” of updating your news readers but hey, “Change happens”! I look forward to many new posts and together we can learn and have some fun. Cheers
Apple is a sensational company. They innovate like nobody else and continually break new ground in design and functionality. The iPhone has raised the bar for everyone else in the mobile device space and that’s a great thing for the consumer. With Google’s open source mobile OS announcement and the coming 700Mhz auction in January, [...]
I have been meaning to study the Flex code itself for some time now. I have one less excuse now that I’ve learned how easy it is to see the code while working in Flex Builder. Previously I had been digging into the directory structure of the code and hunting around – but I’ve learned a [...]