Silverlight RPN Calculator Tutorial.

Well I beat my old nemesis and finished an RPN calculator. It was much easier than I remember, but then again, I tried it like four years ago. I've learned so much in the time since, I can hardly believe how silly my old code is.

Have any of you ever used a Reverse Polish Notation calculator? I did in high school. It was easily the best calculator ever (the HP=32SII). RPN is great, because you don't have to use parenthesis. The stack and the order in which you key the operators maintains order of operations.

Today, I'll walk you through creating one. Note this tutorial is technically for Silverlight, but except for the marked sections, it can be applied wholesale to WinForms or WPF. Most if this is simple stack logic, and that exists on all .NET platforms.

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