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Deep Fried Bytes 47: What's Coming in Silverlight 4 with Jesse Liberty

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:18:28 GMT

Silverlight 4 is just around the corner and it is the one technology a lot of developers are waiting on to build the next generation of rich Internet applications. In this episode Keith and Woody caught up with Jesse Liberty at the Professional Developers Conference and discussed what's coming in Silverlight 4 and what it means for developers.

SilverTile needs your help!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:36 GMT

I need your help in testing my Silverlight based game engine.

Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:14 GMT

In this article Andrea Boschin demonstrates how to write an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations.

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #32

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:11 GMT

Today we want to look at a pitfall when debugging certain data binding code. But first I have some other stuff I wanted to share with you.

Sending e-mail in Silverlight

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:44 GMT

Send e-mail is commonplace but there are still some sites that have their eye on the time to leave that space where we can contact you with questions, suggestions or complaints.

How to insert data into Database using Silverlight

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:31 GMT

Start -> Programs -> VS2008 -> File -> New -> Project -> SilverlightApplication -> ByDefault application name is SilverlightApplication1 change name as SilverlightDB

Uploading and downloading images from WCF in Silverlight

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:18:49 GMT

In this article, Gill Cleeren demonstrates how to upload and download images using a WCF service with Silverlight.

MVVM with Prism 101 - Part 6b: Wrapping IClientChannel

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:22:19 GMT

I could have used the title "Ditching Client Service Proxy" or "Avoiding Add Service Reference", but that's not what the meat of the post is about. However, that is essentially the goal of this post. The client service proxy generated when you use "Add Service Reference." to reference your web service from your client project is used by almost every demo I know. It quickly generates a proxy class for you that at first blush is "the bee's knees".

How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:56:22 GMT

One of the things I found missing in the current Bing Maps product is the possibility to create an elevation surface profile of routes. Perhaps this feature may not seem much on demand but actually affects more people than expected.

RIA Services in .NET - A Closer Look

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:39:23 GMT

The RIA Services provides a mechanism of exposing data and business logic for consumption by the Rich Internet Applications like Silverlight.These are basically WCF services with some additional plumbing which makes it very easy to develop and consume service from Silverlight applications.Since these are basically WCF services they can be consumed from other types of applications like ASP.NET/WinForms/WPF as well... Read More

Transform an Ugly Duckling into a Graceful Swan With Expression Blend

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:42:50 GMT

In the first part of the series, András Velvárt introduced the application, and created the "ugly duckling" version, where the end user could already browse the and watch the videos. In this part, he is going to add some bling to the app - namely the Intro animation, the ability to skip it, and to replay it.

Silverlight 4: How to use the all new Right Click Context Menu?

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:44:56 GMT

In this post I will describe about the another cool new feature ("How to use the all new Right Click Context Menu?") of Silverlight 4.

Binding a Converter Parameter

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:57:15 GMT

There is a lot of situations when you need to bind ConverterParameter value. But current version of the Silverlight disallow us to bind Converter Parameter value. See the solution in this post...

Silverlight 4: How to work with Notification API?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:46:38 GMT

Silverlight Notification API is a new feature introduced in Silverlight 4 Beta 1. If you are developing your application using Silverlight & want to show some notification message like Outlook to the user, then you can use this. Remember that, this feature only works out of browser.

Silverlight 4: How to Drag and Drop External Files?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:44:56 GMT

In this post I will describe you another feature of Silverlight 4 "Access to external content". Here I will show how to drag and drop some external images to my sample application. Earlier Silverlight 4 this feature was not available. There was no client file access permission. But in this new release they introduced this functionality by which you can implement the same.

Silverlight: Drag And Drop ListBoxItem to Canvas (using Telerik Contro

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:09:58 GMT

While surfing thru different forum I noticed that, lots of people are actually facing issues while trying to implement the drag and drop feature. The main problem arises while trying to drag from a ListBox to a panel like canvas. In this post, I will go thru the steps to demonstrate such feature.

How to Ping network IP or Hostname in Silverlight Application?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:07:05 GMT

Pinging a network IP or Hostname is not available in Silverlight. But you can do this using WCF service. In this post I am going to implement the same thing for you. I am using Silverlight 4 here. But this can also be possible in Silverlight 3.

Silverlight: IronPython in the browser Part 2

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:54:02 GMT

This article is an excerpt taken from IronPython in Action, by Michael J. Foord and Christian Muirhead and published by Manning Publications.

Using Reactive Extensions in Silverlight

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:02:35 GMT

In this article P.Popadiyn offers you a good overview of the RX Framework.

Silverlight Layout Controls - Using the Canvas control

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:21:54 GMT

A detailed look at using the Silverlight Canvas control and its quirks when using Horizontal and Vertical alignments on the Canvas and its child controls. This article discusses absolute positioning in the canvas and the use of ZIndexs to control drawing order.

How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:30:01 GMT

Silverlight 3 came up with Out Of Browser support. Using that feature one can install the application just like a standalone windows application. Hence no need to open the browser to run the Silverlight application. Today for the first time I gone thru the APIs & created a sample application. Here I will discuss about the same to give you a demonstration.

Silverlight 4: How to Capture Video from Default Webcam?

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:23:55 GMT

Silverlight 4 Beta 1 has been released by Microsoft on 18th November 2009. There are lots of goodies came up with the release of the new version. Among them, most of all are requested by the developers & users of Silverlight. In this post I will demonstrate one of the new feature "Accessing Default Webcam using Silverlight 4".

EntitySpaces 2010 Warning Signs

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:17:35 GMT

Warning: A feeling of euphoric power coupled with feelings of invincibility have been noted by the EntitySpaces Development Team when using EntitySpaces 2010. This will be especially true for those customers using Silverlight and WCF together. The interaction between these technologies and EntitySpaces 2010 could prove to be more than some customers can handle. Please check with your IT staff to make sure this combination is safe for you.

Should I embed a complete database engine into a Silverlight app?

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:56:25 GMT

Should I embed a complete database engine into a Silverlight app? Many developers ask themselves if it worth to embed a complete database engine on a Silverlight application and this can be normal because developers are used with traditional database where you need drivers (old ODBC drivers) or ADO.NET providers to be installed on machine that app run and as footprint that are quite big if we speak in sense of using on Silverlight sandbox where footprint is very important. But what exactly ...

Using fonts in Silverlight: evaluating the options

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:36:58 GMT

The article summarizes the possibilities of defining fonts in Silverlight: using built-in fonts, embedding them and using streamed fonts.