So, in this final part I’ll explain the HeatMap Generator control.  I recommend you read Part I if you haven’t yet.  With this piece again I created a control that was placed on my MasterPage for my theme.  I wrapped the control around an ‘if’ statement so it... [More]

Have you ever thought about what users do on your site?  Beyond the usual statistics, logs, etc, denoting where your users are clicking can be very useful.  A heatmap might just be the thing.  There are many services / products out there but nothing in .NET that I wanted.  What... [More]

I find Silverlight amazing.  If you begin digging into the controls included with the base Silverlight install you will find an incredible structure for almost all the controls.  The part I love the most is the ItemTemplate or more specifically the DataTemplate. As an example I’ve taken a... [More]

I’ve been a member of last.fm since 2006 and love it.  I found this awesome ASP.Net user control that displays what I’m listening to.  Of course I thought it’d be a nice fit to my theme.  You can find the original post and download here at Chris Blankenship’s... [More]

I like the Digg pager control.  I like it on DotNetKicks too. Silverlight doesn't have a built in pager-bar control.  So I built one. This control can be placed within any other Silverlight control to control paging of any sort - not just the plain old DataGrid. &nb... [More]

A simple Silverlight BlogEngine.NET control. [More]

Before Silverlight 2 one had to go through loops to implement a timer, resulting in many different hacks. Now no more.  Simple.  Elegant.  Logical.  Common sense. 1: System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer t = new DispatcherTimer(); ... [More]

blank_page Value converts are one of the most important features of the .NET Framework that I use daily.  In Silverlight you use value converters to format binded data to your liking.  For example, formatting a date to a specific DateFormat (January 1, 2008).  Your imagination is ... [More]

I just found an awesome theme named arthemia.  of course I had to personalize it a bit to work in my custom version of BlogEngine.NET. Custom version?  Yes, I've been playing around and making a few changes.  I'll be creating a series of posts to describe those cha... [More]