Comments on: Work process: How to use and build type converters http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/ Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Itamar Syn-Hershko http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-3579 Itamar Syn-Hershko Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:13:40 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-3579 This actually wasn't working well, and made BidiControls crash Blend each and every time. Enum.Parse should be called explicitly in ConvertFrom instead of base.Convert.FromString. Not doing so would cause the caller to an endless recursion in calling ConvertFrom. See my patch for this in http://silverlightrtl.codeplex.com/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx, (#5088). Itamar. This actually wasn’t working well, and made BidiControls crash Blend each and every time. Enum.Parse should be called explicitly in ConvertFrom instead of base.Convert.FromString. Not doing so would cause the caller to an endless recursion in calling ConvertFrom.
See my patch for this in http://silverlightrtl.codeplex.com/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx, (#5088).

Itamar.

]]> By: Tom http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1561 Tom Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:43 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1561 <p>It's great to hear about BiDi support for Silverlight 2.0.  Will this be an official part of the Silverlight 2.0 release?  And on a related note, will its public API be the same as in WPF (i.e. FrameworkElement.FlowDirection property)?</p> It’s great to hear about BiDi support for Silverlight 2.0.  Will this be an official part of the Silverlight 2.0 release?  And on a related note, will its public API be the same as in WPF (i.e. FrameworkElement.FlowDirection property)?

]]> By: Tamir Khason http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1560 Tamir Khason Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:42 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1560 <p>Tom, it is community project. </p> <p>Regarding the API, yes, I'm trying to keep it as closer as possible to WPF</p> Tom, it is community project.

Regarding the API, yes, I’m trying to keep it as closer as possible to WPF

]]> By: DotNetKicks.com http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1559 DotNetKicks.com Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:40 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1559 <p>You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com</p> You’ve been kicked (a good thing) – Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

]]> By: Tom http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Tom Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:39 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1558 <p>Tamir, thank you for the answers!  I'm looking forward to trying this out.</p> Tamir, thank you for the answers!  I’m looking forward to trying this out.

]]> By: Silverlight news for July 8, 2008 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1557 Silverlight news for July 8, 2008 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:38 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1557 <p>Pingback from  Silverlight news for July 8, 2008</p> Pingback from  Silverlight news for July 8, 2008

]]> By: slyi http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1556 slyi Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:37 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1556 <p>Excellent this is great news indeed.</p> Excellent this is great news indeed.

]]> By: vamsi http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1555 vamsi Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:35 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1555 <p>It's really good</p> It’s really good

]]> By: d-roc http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/comment-page-1/#comment-1554 d-roc Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:34 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/#comment-1554 <p>I'm under the impression that the DefaultValueAttribute does not work for Silverlight 2 beta 2 and gets ignored. I couldn't get it to work. Would love to hear if anyone ran into the same issues.</p> <p>[DefaultValue(TextAlignment.Left)]  That shouldn't have worked. Are you sure it wasn't a fluke that it defaulted to 0?</p> I’m under the impression that the DefaultValueAttribute does not work for Silverlight 2 beta 2 and gets ignored. I couldn’t get it to work. Would love to hear if anyone ran into the same issues.

[DefaultValue(TextAlignment.Left)]  That shouldn’t have worked. Are you sure it wasn’t a fluke that it defaulted to 0?

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