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Sharing Code Between .NET and Silverlight Platforms

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:13:50 GMT

Quite often, I hear people asking if they can use .NET assemblies compiled for the full .NET runtime in Silverlight. Unfortunately, this just isn't possible, the Silverlight runtime is a subset of the full .NET runtime and for code to run correctly under the Silverlight runtime, there are various dependencies that must be linked and verified at compile time. But (there is always a but), there is one technique that you can use that effectively allows you to write your code once and have it work in both Silverlight and regular .NET applications.

Page navigation and browser history in Silverlight

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:58:31 GMT

An article about the Telerik's RadPageNavigation used to create a web site in Silverlight 2.

Silverlight: Client-Side Database via LINQ and Isolated Storage

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:32:51 GMT

When I did a search on "Silverlight Database" there weren't many results, and none of them actually mentioned a small database that you could embed into your Silverlight application. So, I thought I'd share a solution that I've used to store application data on the client using a combination of LINQ and Isolated Storage. This actually gives you a small "SQL"-like database since you can use LINQ to interact with it.

Silverlight news for October 10, 2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:08 GMT

Silverlight daily news round-up.

Why don't Beta 2 sites work on RC0

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:09:26 GMT

I've been getting a lot of questions and confusion around why you get the following strange behavior. "I've installed the RC0 developer runtime, and whenever I hit a Beta 2 site, I get the 'install badge' instead of my site. If I click this badge to install I can't because I'm told I already have a newer version. What gives?" When the browser sees an <OBJECT> tag, it looks at the type parameter to see what it should use to render the object. Silverlight Beta 2 uses the following: type="application/x-silverlight-2-b2" , Silverlight RC0 (and later RTW) uses the following: type="application/x-silverlight-2"

Unit Testing and INotifyPropertyChanged

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:42:42 GMT

Want to test classes implementing INotifyPropertyChanged but hating all the code. Look no further

SilverlightShow news for October 9, 2008

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:12:10 GMT

Silverlight news for October 9, 2008

Overview of Databinding in Silverlight

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:09:20 GMT

The goal the below code is to bind data using XAML. So, for the example I used MLB Pitching stats for 2008, created a Pitcher object, then a PitcherCollection object, and finally used XAML to define an instance of the PitcherCollection. The result is the Page.xaml.cs does not have any code in it, but a list box is fully bound to a data source.

LINQ + WCF + Silverlight

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:37:31 GMT

A seven part article with a full solution for setting up a CRUD application across tiers, one of which is a Silverlight application.

Downloading Videos From YouTube

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:32:19 GMT

I've finally figured out a reliable way to download videos from YouTube. It involves one website and Microsoft's Expression Video Encoder. Now I can get anything I want to put on my Zune or iPod.

Spinning Wait Symbol in Silverlight

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:08:21 GMT

Simple animation using Silverlight to emulate the wait symbol on a Windows Mobile Treo.

Silverlight news for October 8, 2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:01:28 GMT

Daily Silverlight news

Button Content behavior changes in Silverlight RC0

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:22:50 GMT

Recently I ran into an issue with my Silverlight application after I migrating it from Silverlight 2 Beta2 to RC0 version. Here is the sample code for sake of simple example purpose:

Your first animations using XAML and Silverlight- Double animation

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:19:18 GMT

In the previous article "Your first animations using xaml and silverlight - Color animation: Part I", we've exposed a technique of how to deal with color animation. In this article, I will do same thing but with a different animation. I mean the DoubleAnimation class this time.

Paging Data in the Silverlight DataGrid

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:13:08 GMT

In this article I will discuss Paging in a Silverlight DataGrid.

The ProgressBar control in Silverlight 2

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:46:18 GMT

This article takes a look at the ProgressBar control that came with the release candidate of Silverlight and show some of its basic features.

Silverlight news for October 7, 2008

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:45:45 GMT

Silverlight news for October 7, 2008.

Silverlight: Dropdown Menu Control

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:29:56 GMT

In a previous post I showed how we can build a simple menu control for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Silverlight: how to build a simple menu control); then with the release of Silverlight RC0 some things were changed and the menu stopped working, due to how events are handled for disabled controls (Silverlight 2 RC0 - first problems due to undocumented breaking changes on disabled controls). The only way to overcome these problems was to completely rewrite the control...

Silverlight Mindmap Control

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:19:38 GMT

Silverlight mindmap control developed in Silverlight 2.0.

Feel the power of Silverlight 2

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:21:14 GMT

This is an excellent Silverlight site http://www.microsoft.com/defyallchallenges . You should check this out to experience the richness of Silverlight 2 and feel what Silverlight 2 is capable of. Check this out with IE .

Dave's Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2 released

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:06:28 GMT

I'm pleased to announce the availability of my first Silverlight 2 controls set: 'Dave's Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2'.

Silverlight Min-Map

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:47:12 GMT

Article about mind-mapping application with online demo.

Silverlight Write and Win contest - the winners!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:38:39 GMT

The end of the Write & Win contest has come! First of all we would like to say "Thank you" to all of you that supported this contest by participating or blogging about it! Do not forget, that you can also count on us! ...

Silverlight 2.0 BiDi controls libarary was updated to Silverlight RC0

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:14:44 GMT

I just got free minutes and updated bidirectional (Hebrew/Arabic) support for Silverlight 2.0 toward RC0. So, if you're using it, please be sure to get the latest version

Silverlight 2 RC0 DataGrid CommittingEdit work around

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:52:29 GMT

This article shows how to hook into the datagrid cells lostfocus event to simulate the Beta 2's CommittingEdit event