I’ve been struggling for awhile, trying to figure out how I could use the current SilverlightTest framework so that I could store and access the results from the tests results outside of the browser. I have heard that Jeff Wilcox is in the process of getting together a proof of concept to MS regarding [...]

I was hoping to push some test results into something like a console, and when I saw that the Silverlight framework included System.Console.WriteLine I was pretty pleased… but then some rain on my parade:
Console Class:
This API supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Well boo-urns.   I’ve found [...]

Hi! I’ve worked a little on the side with making my WYSIWYG editor support some zooming on the main canvas.  In doing so I bumped into a few little issues that I felt worthy of writing down.
What I did at first to apply my zoom:
- I enclosed my canvas in a ScrollViewer
- I apply a scale [...]

Short and simple [although it took me awhile to figure out], an element must have focus to receive a keydown event.
The KeyDown event is a bubbling event. This means that if multiple KeyDown event handlers are registered for a sequence of objects connected by parent-child relationships in the object tree, the event is received by [...]

I’ve been playing around with Wordpress themes and customizing them to better express myself, so over the next little while this page may look very different from day to day as I test things out to see if I like them.

So this one is actually fairly simple, but I had to look it up.  If you have resources in your UserControl xaml that you would like to access in your code behind simply access it via the FrameworkElement.Resources dictionary:
My resource:

<UserControl.Resources>
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="HeaderBrush"
StartPoint="0.03,0.02" EndPoint="1,0.01"
SpreadMethod="Pad" ColorInterpolationMode="SRgbLinearInterpolation" >
[...]

I bumped into this handy little Silverlight App which will generate the code to create nice gradients from an easy GUI color picker. I find this really handy since I don’t use Blend [although I probably should be] but I want to make some “somewhat” pretty looking user control backgrounds.
http://www.markbetz.net/sl/gradient/