{"id":298,"date":"2008-05-27T23:47:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/298"},"modified":"2008-05-27T23:47:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:47:21","slug":"more-on-the-differences-between-silverlight-templates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/298","title":{"rendered":"More on the differences between Silverlight Templates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johngossman\/archive\/2008\/05\/27\/visual-states-in-xaml-templates.aspx\">John<\/a> discusses the differences between Silverlight and WPF regarding control templates which I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past. Sounds like in Beta 2 they are making some more changes &#8212; yet still not feature compatible with WPF. No triggers. Bleck. Triggers with setters rock and give designers simple power. Maybe what he&#8217;s talking about is better in some way &#8212; but it still doesn&#8217;t sound like a trigger. :(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John discusses the differences between Silverlight and WPF regarding control templates which I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past. Sounds like in Beta 2 they are making some more changes &#8212; yet still not feature compatible with WPF. No triggers. Bleck. Triggers with setters rock and give designers simple power. Maybe what he&#8217;s talking about is better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-4O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":172,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/172","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":0},"title":"Silverlight &#8212; it ain&#8217;t your papa&#8217;s WPF","date":"May 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"John Gossman, architect of the WPF team (desktop and subset taht supplies UI framework for Silverlight), discusses a few of the pain points developers and designers are facing today with WPF to Silverlight portability. 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