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		<title>&#8220;Tax Season&#8221; is especially painful this year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ouch! Right on the heals of April 15th (tax day in the U.S.) come big product releases from both Adobe and Microsoft. Long ago the term &#8220;Redmond Tax&#8221; was coined referring to the constant cost to stay current with Microsoft products but there&#8217;s an equal San Jose Adobe tax as well. If I were a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=350</link>
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		<title>Flex 4 RadioButtonGroup is non-visual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a few things with respect to RadioButtonGroup with Flex 4. It inherits directly from EventDispatcher and is thus &#8220;non-visual&#8221; as stated in the docs: Notice that the RadioButtonGroup component is a subclass of EventDispatcher, not UIComponent, and implements the IMXMLObject interface. All other Flex visual components implement the IVisualElement interface. The RadioButtonGroup component [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=332</link>
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		<title>Flex 4 ItemRenderers and the selected property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve just searched on &#8220;Flex 4  +  cannot select ItemRenderer&#8221;,  you may have ended up here.  You see, I spent some time on that question recently and until I RTFM&#8216;d the Flex 4 docs on the ItemRenderer class, I once more wrongfully jumped to the conclusion there&#8217;s a bug. You see, Flex 4 introduces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=320</link>
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		<title>On Desginers, Developers and the Adobe and Microsoft worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the summer and fall in the Silverlight world and it became apparent to me that the designer and developer worlds are converging. With the emergence of Expression Blend 3 designers visually create  XAML using Blend&#8217;s States and Properties panels. This XAML can be VERY long and verbose but the results when applied to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=306</link>
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		<title>FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent post explained how encapsulating functionality (e.g. Animations, etc) into a Behavior promoted reuse in that once this functionality is encapsulated into a Behavior, it can then easily be applied to multiple Controls in various projects by a designer using Blend (remember &#8220;write once run anywhere&#8221;!) Thinking deeper I thought: &#8220;That&#8217;s not really as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=274</link>
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		<title>Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed a UI Control that enables the user to refresh the current View. When the user clicks the control it rotates as feedback. The quickest way to do this would be to switch to the animation workspace in Blend and create a new Storyboard, set a KeyFrame and dial in a RotateTransform using the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=251</link>
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		<title>Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been messing around with a Silverlight 3 app that allows you to open and view XAML files located on your locale machine. Sure, you can do that already with your favorite editor including Visual Studio but I wanted to show more information easily so the viewer did not have to continually copy and paste [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>A Lack of Posts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Animations and View State changes with MVVM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent question on the Silverlight forums reminded me of an issue any MVVM fanboy will face sooner or later: &#8220;Is it possible to start an animation (StoryBoard in the XAML) from the ViewModel&#8221;? One of the major tenets of MVVM is &#8220;separation of concerns&#8221; in that the View is not supposed to know about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=206</link>
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		<title>[screencast] Graphical skinning via NineGrid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post spoke of Peter Blois&#8217; NineGrid.dll and how it can be used to do Nine Scale in Silverlight. Here&#8217;s a quick video showing how I used it in case anyone is having issues. &#8211; Cheers! link to screencast&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.flexforcefive.com/?p=180</link>
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