Articles by Richard Ashman (Articles: 2, Technical Blogs: 10)

A simple overview of how to create a hybrid Drop-Down ComboBox where a tooltip is shown over an item if it is too long to display within the ListBox rectangle.

A ComboBox that can render owner-drawn tooltips for individual list items.

The System.Windows.Controls.Data assembly contains the DataGrid control.  You can use it to display tabular data in your Silverlight 2.0 applications.  While it handles the basics well, it’s still an early release and lacks obvious support for some of the most apparently simple tasks such as settin

The simple ToolTipService type that Silverlight provides us with out of the box, exposes an attached property called ToolTip that enables us to assign a popup visual to a dependency object.

Silverlight 2.0 – Delaying Data Binding with a ToolTip

A quick look at one way of supporting GIF images in a Silverlight application

I just installed the latest Windows SDK for Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 onto a relatively clean development machine (post VS2008 SP1 install) and my Xaml intellisense magically stopped working. I checked the property settings in Visual Studio to see what editor I was using to view Xaml (presuming this

I recently had cause to run the chkdsk utility on my development laptop and to my horror the damn thing nuked my hard drive contents … no more boot into Windows. I aimlessly spent some time trying to get to grips with Sony’s proprietary recovery software and concluded I was staring a format/reinstal

Most of the time I spend building software is focused on reducing complexity.  Complex domain logic can be reduced into simple reusable elements that combine to form elegant solutions ... for me, the composition of these elements is the key to simplification and maintainability. Function Composition

An immutable type is one whose internal state cannot change after it has been instantiated.  A ‘deeply immutable’ type is one whose dependency graph contains reference types that are also ‘deeply immutable’.  If dependant reference types are not themselves ‘deeply immutable’, the type is termed ‘sh

System.Collections.Generic.SynchronizedCollection – thread safe?

The System.Windows.Controls.Data assembly contains the DataGrid control.  You can use it to display tabular data in your Silverlight 2.0 applications.  While it handles the basics well, it’s still an early release and lacks obvious support for some of the most apparently simple tasks such as settin