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Somehow I haven't stumbled on this until. This morning I was browsing through a parser test and I saw MultiPropertyTrigger and decided to try it. This seems like it would be pretty crucial for complex styles. Here is what it looks like: <Style.VisualTriggers > <PropertyTrigger Property="Button...

Now that the SDK has been updated I can finally start posting on some of the really cool features that I have been playing with for the last couple of months. I've got an article in the works that is an updated version of my GelButton that I posted earlier. Its not finished yet, but if you want to get...

I am more or less done with the article on creating a gel button using styling. The article is posted here http://www.longhornblogs.com/ndunlap/articles/2203.aspx While I was writing the article I realized that I frivolously use DockPanels wrapped around my shape elements and other layout elements that...

Whew! its been along time. There is so much to blog about regarding Avalon, I get blogger block. (Doesn't help there are so few hours in the day... I was hoping Bush would address that in the State of the Union tonight. More tax cuts please, more hours in the day please!) I am working on posting an article...

In DHTML you can create global CSS stylesheets that allow you to access your styles across multiple web pages. You can do the same thing by storing your resources in the application object. This is much more powerful with XAML because you can store more than just styles. For example, for my visual style...

In my last post I mentioned that drawing brush is good when you don't want your vectors to intelligently resize and layout. So what do I do when I want to reuse vectors that I do want to dynamically resize? Well the obvious solution is to build my vector elements directly inline. The only problem is...