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Top 10 Things to know about Silverlight Prism

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:01:49 GMT

Prism is one of the hottest topics in Silverlight. Here, I provide the top 10 things that I think every developer should know about Prism.

Silverlight 3 Navigation Drag and Drop Actions

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:35:16 GMT

Using Silverlight 3 Behaviors to quickly compose Navigation actions without the use of code.

Downloading and Building Prism

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:51:51 GMT

Prism is amazing. It was pretty much made by geniuses. Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to figure out 1) where to download it and 2) what to do with it after you've downloaded it. This is a guide that shows you how to get up and running with Silverlight Prism.

Mouse Events in Silverlight

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:25:56 GMT

In this 1st post of his 31 Days of Silverlight series, Jeff Blankenburg explains how to work with the different mouse events (MouseEnter, MouseLeave, MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseLeftButtonUp, and MouseMove) in Silverlight.

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #14

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:17:02 GMT

Describes an approach to solving the lack of inheriting XAML code in Silverlight. It doesn't contain source code, but the description is detailed enough to figure out how to do it yourself.

Thirty-One Days of Silverlight

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:47:16 GMT

Each day in the month of July, I am going to publish an article on a Silverlight topic. The topics will range from 100-level to 300-level in difficulty, but all of them will be written so that a beginner could start from scratch to create them. I will covering Drag & Drop, Event Handling, and even Collision Detection. This is an extensive list of tutorials, and I hope that it will help you see how useful and powerful these technologies can be. If there are topics you are specifically interested in seeing covered, please leave a comment, and I will do my best to accomodate your request.

SilverBullet #5 - System.Windows.ApplicationServiceContext

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:16:21 GMT

When running Silverlight outside the browser, there's the possibility that the computer that is running the applications is disconnected. This is where the System.Windows.ApplicationServiceContext class comes in.

20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:00 GMT

In this article we presents a collection of best Silverlight tutorials.

Is this the Windows inside browser?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:58 GMT

Windows4all.com - online virtual operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. You can launch applications right away without installation.

Composite Application Guidance (Prism-v2) sample application using Sil

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:00:02 GMT

Sample app showing SL 3 Child Window with Prism-v2

Styling a TreeView in Silverlight and Blend 3

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:38:55 GMT

Today I would like to show you how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight using Expression Blend 3. The TreeView is a control to visualize hierarchical data structures.

How to: Drag and Drop Silverlight Views between Regions in Prism-v2

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:15:01 GMT

This blog post explains how to drag and drop SL views between regions in Prism. It also provides a code sample.

Composing Applications with Silverlight and Prism

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:59:59 GMT

In this article, Shawn Wildermuth will show you how to build an application using the composition techniques of the Composite Application Library from the Prism project. Including the use of EventAggregators and a custom command implementation. The example he develops is a simple editor of database data.

A Mouse Wheel Blend Behavior

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:07:01 GMT

How to create a quick and easy Behavior to use in Silverlight and Blend to add Mouse Wheel support to elements.

SilverLight's FAQ - Part 3

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:59:50 GMT

This article discusses 12 FAQ's which revolve around bindings, layouts, consuming WCF services and how to connect to database through silver light. Article first starts with bindings and discusses about one way, two way and one time bindings.

SilverBullet #4 - System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:21:09 GMT

One of the great new features of Silverlight 3 is the so called "Out of Browser" support. This means you can run your application without the browser, but still using the browser secure sandbox. The ApplicationIdentity class can be used to provide some extra information about your application when running outside the browser.

Silverlight 3 with Bing Translator Services

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:18:38 GMT

Bing API is one of the new and cool features from Microsoft. We can use those API's for implementing the customization of search in our Application.

7 simple steps to connect SQL Server using WCF from SilverLight

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:03:02 GMT

In this article we will look how we can do database operations using SilverLight. We will first try to understand why we cannot call ADO.NET directly from a silverlight application and then we will browse through 7 steps which we need to follow to do database operation from silverlight.

You can only add project references to other Silverlight projects

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:35:19 GMT

If you start with silverlight, I bet with you that you'll get that anoying message in any case. But it has a reason why Microsoft doesn't allow that.

Attaching Silverlight 3 Behaviors in C#

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:51:43 GMT

Manipulating Silverlight Behaviors from C# instead of Blend.

EntitySpaces DynamicQuery Serialization Part II (WCF and Silverlight)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:41:41 GMT

This stuff is hot guys and gals. We are asking Jon Davis to write an entirely new Silverlight demo that will showcase our DynamicQuery feature running under Silverlight inside the browser and hitting a WCF service on the server. We cannot wait, this is so slick . Here's another sneak peak post.

4 Simple steps to consume WCF service using Silverlight

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:28:52 GMT

This article will talk about 4 simple steps which will assist you to consume WCF service in a Silverlight application. It also had a simple sample source code which demonstrates all the 4 steps practically.

SilverBullet #3 - System.Windows.Input.FocusManager

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:02:27 GMT

When you want to know what element has focus in other situations or if you need to get the focus synchronously, you can use the FocusManager class which can be found in the System.Windows.Input namespace.

SilverBullet #2 - System.Json

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:33 GMT

The System.Json class provides support for Javascript Object Notation or JSON. By using the classes in this namespace you are able to use Json objects in your C# or VB code. These object are often used in JavaScript and to send to and be returned by services.

SilverBullet #1 - System.Environment

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:57:55 GMT

This first SilverBullet I would like to give you is the Environment class. It's in the System namespace and provides information about the environment your application is running in.