Matthew Van Horn

I have been working with XAML and the Dependency Property system for about 3 years now and I have decided to start sharing some of the fun stuff that I do that I personally find to be really cool, useful, or just a massive time savings vs doing it some...

You might have noticed the very flashy shell that was part of the LightSwitch launch demo recently. Infragistics Services group had the pleasure of working on this project to build a compelling and unique shell for the platform. This is just the latest...

There is a super-handy little piece of code that I use all the time with Silverlight and I want to take this opportunity to share it with you. I don’t know if this is common knowledge, but with Silverlight there is an entire visual tree which everything...

In .NET there is the INotifyPropertyChanged system to let the UI know that the data that it is bound to has changed. To take advantage of that you have to go ahead and type out the code for every property that you want to auto update the UI.... This is...

Recently I have started to play with Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF for short. For any application developer that works on any project where you don’t know every detail of what an application will do you are faced with trying to generalize...