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Code Badger (Brad Tutterow's Blog)

Brad Tutterow is a consultant that likes Microsoft development technologies.

March 2009 - Posts

Eliminating Jerkiness While Dragging and Dropping in Silverlight
Dragging and dropping in Silverlight 2.0 is pretty simple stuff. Here are simplified versions of the three helper methods that I use. 1: public void StartDrag(Rectangle rectangle) 2: { 3: dragging = true ; 4: } 1: public void Drag(Point position, Rectangle Read More...
Zangor: Finally Getting the Whole Expression Family
After being baffled for a long time about how all the Expression products fit together with Visual Studio, I think I’m finally get the hang of things. The kids and I have been working on a Silverlight game together (they draw the pictures and I do the Read More...
Windows Live Writer and the Death of the Desktop
I’ve been using Windows Live Writer lately to compose blog posts. And apparently, I’m not alone. It’s no wonder either – this is WAY better than writing using Community Server’s web-based admin. Which is interesting … I’m using a desktop app to write Read More...
Small Basic, Being 10, and the Joy of Programming
All developers share on thing from their past: that magical moment where you realize that you can make the computer do what you want. After that comes the moment where you realize it's very very hard to actually convince the computer what you want. Then Read More...