Category: Work

Animated iPhone-style ImageButton with Silverlight 4

July 5, 2011 Posted by Matt under .NET, Silverlight, Work
1 Comment

In this article I am presenting a way to create animated iPhone-style ImageButton control in Silverlight 4. Button will have icon on it, rounded corners and will zoom-in/zoom-out on hover. It will be done programmatically, with very minimum amount of XAML. I start with creating ImageButton class. I use ButtonBase as base class: I want…

WCF Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference.

June 23, 2011 Posted by Matt under .NET, WCF, Web, Work
4 Comments

Very recently, building multi-tier application involving Silverlight front-end inter-operating with WCF back-end, I encountered very odd, yet annoying behaviour of Visual Studio 2010. I was building new functionality using Telerik RadMap for Silverlight control that was to display some spartial data supplied by WCF service. To achieve this my Silverlight application had to reference few…