SilverLight DevCamp Nugget #2

Here are several gotchas I learned about at SilverLight DevCamp DC. You might not even understand what some of these are talking about, but hopefully by the end of this series you will.

• Keyboard input doesn’t work right for fullscreen mode


• Blend’s Media encoding fails sometimes


• You need to deploy debug (.pdb) files in order for Firefox to work


• You need to save the root element passed during the onload event so you can do a find controls with it later


• Validation and intellisense don’t work right in xaml files


• Attached properties don’t show-up in intellisense


• Do not start animations in the constructor


• No design time support for UserControls in Blend