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Working with Silverlight Tab Control

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:57:41 GMT

This article discusses how to create and use the TabControl available in Silverlight 2.0.

IE8 Beta2 - The RIA Slice (Silverlight WebSlice)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:01:26 GMT

The Internet Explorer Beta 2 was released yesterday introducing quite some new features about which you already probably read in one of the various like the IE8 Homepage or the announcement on the official IE Blog. However there may be a feature that isn't mentioned too often which is the fact that now with beta2 RIA technologies like Silverlight are also supported in the flyout of a WebSlice. This is something that wasn't available with Beta1. And since it is not as obvious to integrate a Silverlight portion into a WebSlice I will give you a littel walkthrough on how to do that. First of all I want to introduce you to the concept of the different sources from which a WebSlice can retrieve its information. To understand that we first need to differentiate between the two main components of a slice which is the button in the favorites Bar on the one hand.

Resyncing the apm model of Silverlight

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:56:17 GMT

An approach to simulate sync methods call to WCF from Silverlight

Silverlight ListBox

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:14:59 GMT

This article shows you how to create and use a ListBox control available in Silverlight 2.0.

What I Learned About Silverlight, Part 2

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:12:06 GMT

This article describes some of the issues found while creating a Silverlight application It is a continuation of Part 1.

Class Library in Silverlight 2.0

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:28:40 GMT

This step by step tutorial shows how to build a class library (DLL) for Silverlight 2.0 using Visual Studio 2008 and C# and how to use it in a client application. First part of this tutorial creates a class library and second part creates a Silverlight Web application that consumes the class library.

Class Library in Silverlight 2.0

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:28:40 GMT

Programmatically Trigger Events of a Control in Silverlight

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:47:57 GMT

This article shows you how to fire the click event of a Button control programmatically in Silverlight 2.0.

Class Library in Silverlight 2.0

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:45:45 GMT

Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:16:14 GMT

I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with WPF. So I started to get my feet wet to create a Vista style Login Screen using Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

What I Learned About Silverlight, Part 1

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:59:55 GMT

This article describes some of the issues around creating a Silverlight application and some workarounds. Part 1.

Introducing Silverlight Contrib

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:38:04 GMT

I've just started a new project on CodePlex called Silverlight Contrib. The aim of this project is to offer the most comprehensive collection of free and open source Silverlight controls. The first drop is very small, but with support from the community, I hope to grow this collection into a full suite of controls that you can incorporate into your solutions.

Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:39:10 GMT

Somebody asked the other day how one can cut a shape in Blend. Blend doesn't currently have a scissor tool, but Blend has a set of geometric operations that can be used for this. Suppose we have a shape like this:

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 plus ADO .net Entity Framework not working yet

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:35:14 GMT

Visual Studio SP-1 has been released and one of the major updates of this Service Pack is the RTM of the ADO .net Entity Framework. Does this integrate well with the current Beta 2 version of Silverlight + WCF ? ... in theory yes, but in practice...

Embarcadero to Upgrade Windows RAD Tools

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:33:34 GMT

Products bring together CodeGear and Embarcadero's DatabaseGear functionality into a single offering featuring support for Microsoft's Silverlight.

Expression Media Windows Scripting Guide available for download

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:48:51 GMT

Hello everyone, I'm pleased to be able to tell you that the updated Windows Scripting guide is now available on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C0845865-B7C3-4DD5-B549-45A8B6F7E8F9&displaylang=en There is no comparable guide for Macintosh, but one is not generally needed. On the Mac, you can open the script library for Expression Media inside the Script Editor, and that will give you the appropriate objects and methods. Thanks, Anita Oakley Microsoft Expression Media Support

Yet Another Photo Gallery in Silverlight

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:34:17 GMT

A running demo of another photo gallery done in Silverlight. A link to downloadable source code is available.

CoolMenu: A Silverlight Menu Control

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:16:14 GMT

I thought it would be cool to try building a reusable container control so I came up with CoolMenu. You really have to try this one out to get the full experience, a screen shot just doesn't do it justice. CoolMenu is a Silverlight container control that gives you a nice wave-like effect as you move your mouse over the menu items. Clicking a menu item causes the item to bounce.

Silverlight Particle Generator

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Cool particle effects live demo done with Silverlight. Sources are available, too!

Silverlight: How to Add a Context Menù to a FrameworkElement

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:03:53 GMT

How to build a Window control with dragging and resizing capabilities, the control can host other silverlight controls.

Deep Fried Bytes: A Practical Look at Silverlight 2 Part Two

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:40:34 GMT

Keith and Woody wrap up their conversation with Shawn Wildermuth about the past, present and future of Silverlight 2 and get into some of the truths about this exciting technology. They expose some "rusty washers" about Siliverlight and discuss lots of interesting things you probably didn't know about the technology. This is another fun episode of Deep Fried Bytes that covers everything from lawn mowing, the Olympics and Silverlight.

The Curious Incident of the MessageBox in the Silverlight App

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:24:05 GMT

I've been puzzling over how you'd actually do; MessageBox.Show()

Silverlight: How to Add a Context Menù to a FrameworkElement

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:03:29 GMT

A tecnique to add a context menu anchor to any framework element in a silverlight application

Silverlight 2 + WCF Service Deployment Issue

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:15:46 GMT

This blog shows how to fix a common deployment issue using silverlight 2 and a silverlight wcf enabled service

Tutorial: Reading Local Files in Silverlight

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:10:51 GMT

This article is a follow up to a previous article about reading local files from the hard drive in Silverlight. It describes the process of selecting a file to open and reading the file from a System.IO.Stream.