myDock 0.9.1051 is released

New version is available on alexezh.googlepages.com. Update includes minor fixes.

Subsclass UserControl in SilverLight

By default Expression creates custom controls derived from UserControls

partial class MyControl : UserControl
{
}

In order to derive from a different class you will have to change code in several places

Define new base class with required virtual methods. Do not make class abstract

public class MyUserControl : UserControl
{
public virtual void Foo() {;}
}

Change MyControl to use MyUserControl

partial class MyControl : UserControl
{
public override void Foo() {;}
}

Change XAML for MyControl to use

<MyUserControl x:Class="MyControl">
</MyUserControl>

To make Blend happy, add following lines to AssemblyInfo.cs

// Make blend happy
using System.Windows.Markup;
[assembly: XmlnsDefinition("http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007", "YourNamespace")]

Better version of VS windows hiding tool

Remembers which windows were shown the last time. Source is available at http://alexezh.googlepages.com/MyMacros.txt

Optimize VS workspace by hiding tool windows

Simple macro toggles all tool windows

Dim showToolWindows As Integer Public Sub MyToggleToolWindows() If (showToolWindows = 1) Then showToolWindows = 0 Else showToolWindows = 1 End If For Each window As Window In DTE.Windows ' Check that this is a tool window and not a document window. If (window.Document Is Nothing) Then ' hide window. Try window.Visible = showToolWindows Catch exception As Exception End Try End If Next End Sub

SL unmanaged helpers on codeplex

I posted updated version of unmanaged helpers for accessing SL object model. With helpers you can write code in C++ which matches C# or jscript.

For example here is how to add an event handler to an object

vObj.addEventListener(L"MouseEnter",
CXcpDelegateT(CObject)::create(this, &CObject::OnMouseEnter));

Source code is available on http://www.codeplex.com/mydock

Back to basics

I spent last few month designing new UI for myDock. Test version of UI did not work very well, so I am returning back to original code.

On the good side, I mastered a process of hosting SL2.0 including managed code from unmanaged applications. See details on http://www.codeplex.com/mydock

1051 version will be available in few days

myDock 0.9.1035 is released

New version of myDock is available on http://alexezh.googlepages.com/