Silverlight

.NET3.5

Binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to Dynamic Data via IDictionary (Updated)

26 Mar 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post is a bug fix (due to differences between SL2 and SL3) and expansion on my previous posts on this subject.

Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive

15 Jun 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive

How to Use the New Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?

20 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to use the new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?

Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010

4 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here, I am consolidating all the Silverlight Articles that I posted in my Blog and CodeProject for your further reference. It includes articles of last six months.

Silverlight4

MVVM

How to Detect Installed Silverlight Version?

23 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to detect installed Silverlight version?

Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (Part 2)

21 Oct 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

How to develop a lookless Silverlight Guage control - Part 2

Silverlight: How to Send Message to Desktop Application

1 Nov 2010 by Ondrej_Uzovic

Very simple example showing how to send a message from Silverlight application to standalone desktop application

Using Silverlight Chart Controls With SharePoint 2010

25 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to use Silverlight Chart Control with SharePoint 2010

SharePoint2010

XAML

Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application

24 Mar 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application

LightSwitch

Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

10 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Using StringFormat to concatenate strings in Silverlight XAML.

XAML

Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5

19 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Binding on Style setter in Silverlight 5

Silverlight 5 Window: The Things I Did Not Like

25 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Features I'd like to see in future releases of Silverlight 5

How to Close the Browser Window from a Silverlight Application

9 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

If you are developing a secured site and want to close the browser window just after the user logs out from the application, this small tip will help you.

Validation in Silverlight

26 Apr 2010 by Timmy Kokke

Getting started with the basics of validation in Silverlight

Tips & Tricks: How to change the output location of the Silverlight XAP?

10 Aug 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Description about changing the location of the output of your Silverlight application

Developing a (very) Lookless Silverlight Radial Gauge Control

19 Aug 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

Development of a lookless radial gauge control

Simplest Way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window

20 Oct 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Simplest Way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window

Choose the Way to Create a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Application

22 Oct 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Choose the way to Create a Silverlight Out-of-Browser application

If I Were in a Silverlight Focus Group, Here are Ten Things I Would Say.

17 Jan 2011 by mbcrump

Ten things I would say if I were in a Silverlight focus group

What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control?

17 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Are you aware of the Line Stacking Strategy of Silverlight TextBlock control? If not, this post will help you to understand it and after that you will be able to use it whenever required.

Silverlight 5 Multiple Window Support

24 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 multiple window support

Silverlight 5 Features Local File System Access without using COM API

8 Jun 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 Features Local File System Access without using COM API

Hacking for fun: porting a Silverlight Windows Phone app to WinRT in 9hours

28 Apr 2012 by Jeremy Alles

In this post, I share the “journal” I wrote will porting the app so that you can follow this process with many detail.

WinRT

Windows-Phone-7

Custom ContextMenu in Silverlight Applications

21 Aug 2012 by Christian Amado

In this simple tutorial, I want to show how to hide the default Context Menu presents on every Silverlight application created via Visual Studio.

Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: Making a Trigger Action

11 Oct 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Today, we'll look at the TriggerAction that is also available in System.Windows.Interactivity (either as a part of Expression Blend, or available through the Blend SDK).

Silverlight 4: How To Use the All New Right Click Context Menu?

6 Dec 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will describe another cool new feature of Silverlight 4

Silverlight: Drag And Drop ListBoxItem to Canvas (using Telerik Control)

4 Dec 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

While surfing through different forums, 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.

Changing CSS with jQuery Syntax in Silverlight using jLight

26 Apr 2010 by Timmy Kokke

Changing CSS with jQuery syntax in Silverlight using the jLight library

CSS

jQuery

Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes

22 Nov 2010 by mbcrump

Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes

HTML

Beginning a Silverlight Journey

23 Nov 2010 by stephen.vaubell

Beginning a Silverlight journey

Part 3 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers

13 Dec 2010 by mbcrump

Part 3 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers

vNext

12 May 2011 by rudigrobler

The top requested features for Silverlight, WP7, and WPF

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

17 May 2011 by KevinBhavsar

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

WPF/Silverlight Content Ticker/News Ticker Control

20 May 2011 by Koder Hack

The ContentTicker control is a generic control that can be used to slide content.

Passing Parameters between Silverlight and ASP.NET – Part 1

31 Jul 2011 by Brij M

A description of how to embed Silverlight components in ASP.NET and pass parameters to them

ASP.NET

How Can You Detect Browser Information in Silverlight?

12 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Read this post to know how to detect the browser information using the HtmlPage.BrowserInformation property.

HTML

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC

2 Sep 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC

VS2010

Visual-Studio

Using T4 to Generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest Files

8 Apr 2012 by Daniel Vaughan

How to use T4 to generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest files

Windows-Phone-7

VS2010

Creating a smoke using Particle System in Silverlight

30 Apr 2013 by Jyothikarthik_N

A look into creating smoke effect in Silverlight using the concept of Particle System.

Understanding the LightSwitch HTML Client

9 Apr 2013 by defwebserver

The Visual Studio LightSwitch, the tool that previously only created Silverlight applications, will now create HTML pages.

HTML

Windows

Using Label Class to Display Text in XNA, WPXNA (7)

14 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Using Label class to display text in XNA

Using SceneLoader Class to Create Loading Screen in XNA, WPXNA (10)

30 Jun 2013 by zoyobar

Using SceneLoader class to create loading screen in XNA

Binding to ComboBox.SelectedItem through a custom dependency property

21 Oct 2009 by mrjvdveen

Today we are looking into databinding to the ComboBox.SelectedItem property through a custom dependency property in a UserControl.

Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF

19 Nov 2009 by User 271009

Silverlight 3 & 4 library sharing with .NET 4.0 library or WPF

Silverlight 4: How to Capture Video from Default Webcam?

21 Nov 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will demonstrate one of the new features: “Accessing Default Webcam using Silverlight 4”.

Silverlight 4: Mouse Wheel Support in your Application

6 Dec 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 4 now has support for Mouse Wheel. From now onwards, you can use mouse wheel event to trigger on mouse wheel rotation. Until the release of Silverlight 4 Beta 1 you had to write JavaScript code & a huge lines of code in C#. Now just forget about those lines. Your code will be clean.

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II

13 Jan 2010 by User 271009

WPF and Silverlight Design-Time code sharing

Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Build 2010 RC

27 Mar 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

Getting Silverlight to build on Team Build 2010 RC

Introducing jLight - Talking to the DOM using Silverlight and jQuery

26 Apr 2010 by Timmy Kokke

Using jQuery style syntax to talk to the DOM using Silverlight and jQuery

jQuery

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

28 May 2010 by rudigrobler

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

Exposing and Binding to a Silverlight ScrollViewer’s Scrollbars

22 Jul 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

An attached behaviour that exposes the ScrollViewer's horizontal / vertical offset as dependency properties that permit binding

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #37

15 Oct 2010 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

entity-framework

Part 2 of 4: Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers

29 Nov 2010 by mbcrump

Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers

Silverlight Journey: Controls and Layout

30 Nov 2010 by stephen.vaubell

Layout structure of the canvas and controls available to the user and how to use them

Tracking High Scores on Windows Phone 7

12 Mar 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

How to implement local high scores in Windows Phone 7

Silverlight: How to Communicate with Desktop Application via HTTP

4 Apr 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to communicate between a Silverlight application and a standalone .NET application using HTTP

Converting XML Data to CLR Object using XmlSerializer

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

How to convert the XML to a CLR object and use it as a datasource in a Silverlight app

Consuming External WebService from Silverlight Application

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

How to consume external webservice from Silverlight application

MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart

19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

A method of using attached properties to bind a ViewModel which contains multiple data series to a Visiblox chart without any code-behind

MVVM

What's New in Silverlight 5? Download PUG Event Slides and Demos

8 Jun 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Sharing the "What's New in Silverlight 5?" slides and demos

Working with Silverlight DataGrid RowDetailsTemplate

31 Jul 2011 by Brij M

Working with Silverlight DataGrid RowDetailsTemplate

Simple Preferred Time Control using Silverlight

31 Jul 2011 by Brij M

A simple preferred time control, where you can select the day of the week and the time of the day

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released

19 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released

Simplifying Prism WPF Navigation – Synchronous Navigation Confirmation

6 Sep 2011 by User 271009

Simplifying Prism WPF Navigation – Synchronous Navigation Confirmation

Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight

20 Oct 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

An implementation of IPagedCollectionView which allows paging of data from the server

How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project?

1 Dec 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project?

Silverlight Online Plotter

12 Apr 2013 by Dmitriy Kozlov

A tool that allows you to create function graphs right in the browser, compare them, export and import.

Using the CommandScene Class to Create Command Scenes in the XNA, WPXNA (12)

3 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Using the CommandScene class to create command scenes in the XNA, WPXNA (12)

SignalR with Silverlight 5

11 Jul 2013 by DapperDanH

SignalR with Silverlight 5.

Removing Repetitive Boiler Maker Code From View Models

8 Jan 2015 by User 271009

Removing repetitive boiler maker code from View Models

Azure: Crossdomain.xml inside Root of Blob Storage

12 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

How to implement a crossdomain.xml file to allow the Flash client to connect to my site

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

29 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

30 Oct 2009 by User 271009

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Build 2010 RC

3 Mar 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

This is SSW’s first time using Team Build 2010 to automatically create a Silverlight application. In the past the guys have used Cruise Control, but we want to move to a pure TFS 2010 solution.

Silverlight Mobile: A Simple Workarorund to the Lack of a DataType Property on the DataTemplate Type?

15 Apr 2010 by Steve Psaltis

Silverlight Mobile: A Simple workarorund to the lack of a DataType property on the DataTemplate type?

Silverlight Mobile: Scouting with Castle Windsor

15 Apr 2010 by Steve Psaltis

Silverlight mobile: Scouting with Castle Windsor

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #33

25 May 2010 by mrjvdveen

In this post, I want to look back and reflect. We've run into some issues with our project, so it seems like a good moment to learn some stuff from what we have and have not done.

Silverlight – Bring Element to Full Screen

3 Jul 2010 by Amir Zuker

Silverlight includes a Full Screen capability where you can view your application in full screen...

Solving Cross Domain Issues with Silverlight 2

28 Jul 2010 by Leonid Sorokin

How to solve cross domain issues with Silverlight 2

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

23 Aug 2010 by rudigrobler

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy

21 Sep 2010 by rudigrobler

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy

Wrox–Professional WCF 4–Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

29 Sep 2010 by outcoldman

Wrox–Professional WCF 4–Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

WCF

RESTful WCF Service – How to Get Browser Version at Server Code

29 Sep 2010 by outcoldman

RESTful WCF Service – How to get browser version at server code

WCF

Elevated trust in Silverlight 4

9 Nov 2010 by Wayne Ye

Elevated trust in Silverlight 4

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #39

9 Dec 2010 by mrjvdveen

In this post, we look at an issue we had while implementing a specific form of data entry for our application. Basically there was an oversight in our reasoning about CRUD operations that needed fixing. It also shows the power of GUIDs.

entity-framework

WPF/Silverlight ListBox and equality checking

14 Feb 2011 by Leom Burke

WPF/Silverlight ListBox and equality checking