XAML is getting more and more popular and has also been introduced for Mobile applications. Recently, while I was exploring the internet, I found that the recent version of Windows 7 mobile interfaces use Silverlight to deal with the interface...

XML

Windows

Silverlight

Creating Powerpoint Table using ‘OpenXML’ with XAML Applications

18 Oct 2014 by adityaswami89

A generic way of adding a table to Powerpoint using OpenXML

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

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...

Silverlight

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

17 Mar 2010 by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

Passing Objects between ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls

31 Jul 2011 by Brij M

Passing objects between ASP.NET and Silverlight controls using serialization

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

Silverlight

ASP.NET

Working with Silverlight DataGrid RowDetailsTemplate

31 Jul 2011 by Brij M

Working with Silverlight DataGrid RowDetailsTemplate

Silverlight

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

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

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.

Silverlight5

Silverlight

Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data Part 2 - editable data and INotifyPropertyChanged

17 May 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

This technical blog post shows how to bind a DataGrid to dynamic data where the properties are not know at design / compile-time.

Silverlight

Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary

17 May 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

This technical blog post shows how to bind a DataGrid to dynamic data where the properties are not known at design / compile-time.

Silverlight

Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures

2 Jun 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

A simple lesson regarding the speed of dependency properties ... and a funky Oscilloscope!

Helpful Extension Methods for Show / Hide Animations in Silverlight

28 Sep 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

Today's blog post is a couple of very simple utility methods that I have found myself using again and again ...

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

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.

Silverlight

Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive

15 Jun 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive

All-Topics

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

Silverlight

Developing a (very) Lookless Silverlight Radial Gauge Control

19 Aug 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

Development of a lookless radial gauge control

XML

All-Topics

Silverlight

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

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

Silverlight

MVVM

A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel

24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

How to re-template the Silverlight ProgressBar control to render a circular progress indicator

Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)

24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

How to automatically show ToolTips on a trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)

Silverlight

WPF

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

XML

Silverlight

A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight

7 Feb 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for creating a user control, which exposes bindable properties, in WPF and Silverlight. The post covers dependency properties, and how to manage DataContext inheritance.

Everything You Wanted to Know About databinding in WPF, Silverlight, and WP7 (Part One)

26 Apr 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.

Calling Web Services from Silverlight after the Browser has closed

19 Oct 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

There are two things I wanted to look at. Firstly, I wanted to allow a web service to be called after the Silverlight application’s Exit event is raised. Secondly, I wanted to provide the Silverlight application with the opportunity to cancel, or at least interrupt the close window process.

Javascript

Windows

Silverlight

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

Silverlight

Calling into your database on Silverlight Application_Exit

19 Mar 2013 by DapperDanH

Calling into your database on Silverlight Application_Exit.

Silverlight

SignalR with Silverlight 5

11 Jul 2013 by DapperDanH

SignalR with Silverlight 5.

Silverlight

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

Silverlight

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.

Silverlight

A Simple Silverlight Object Viewer

29 Jan 2012 by Don Kackman

A simple Silverlight object viewer

Silverlight

XAML

Binding to Image Path in Isolated Storage

19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev

Binding to Image Path in Isolated Storage

Silverlight

Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit

19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev

Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit.

Silverlight Slideshow With Remote Control and Windows Taskbar Support

28 Dec 2011 by Giorgi Dalakishvili

In this post, I will build a simple slideshow application to demonstrate some of the capabilities of the Native Extensions for Microsoft Silverlight library.

Silverlight

Dev

HTML5 vs FLASH vs SILVERLIGHT

22 Nov 2011 by GraemeKMiller

HTML5 vs Flash vs Silverlight

HTML5

Silverlight

Flash

Parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone

5 Apr 2013 by Irina Pykhova

How to parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone.

Silverlight Clipping Fun

10 Aug 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

Silverlight's support for clipping is definitely inferior.

Silverlight

Dev

How to Use Your Own Fonts Within Silverlight

11 Jan 2011 by JamesHurst

How to use your own fonts within Silverlight

Silverlight

Highlighted Features & Improvements In Silverlight 5

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Highlighted Features & Improvements In Silverlight 5

Silverlight

RIA

MVVM

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

Silverlight

Silverlight: Reflection Image Button

4 Jul 2009 by Jeremy Likness

A simple Silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection

Abstracting WCF Service Calls in Silverlight 3

14 Jul 2009 by Jeremy Likness

A method for abstracting WCF service calls in Silverlight to facilitate reuse and easy re-targeting of services.

Silverlight DataContext Changed Event

28 Jul 2009 by Jeremy Likness

One known issue with Silverlight is that the DataContext bound to a control may change, but there is no readily available change event. Unlike WPF, you don't have an explicit event to register with in order to track changes.

Silverlight Captcha Example

1 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Silverlight, with its powerful text and graphics manipulation capabilities and strong interaction with the scripting DOM, seems to be the perfect engine for a Captcha challenge.

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

29 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: Storyboard Trigger Example

6 Oct 2009 by Jeremy Likness

One of the most powerful benefits of Silverlight is that it uses the DependencyProperty model. Using this model, you can have great attached properties to describe reusable behaviors and attach those behaviors to certain elements.

Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: TextBox Magic

7 Oct 2009 by Jeremy Likness

The TextBox control is popular in Silverlight, but comes with a few nuances. Learn how to filter textboxes and force databinding with attached behaviors.

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).

XML

All-Topics

Silverlight

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

2 Dec 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Use the Managed Extensibility Framework to export dictionary resources using custom ExportProvider in Silverlight

How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

4 Oct 2010 by jmix90

Reusability and factorizing are maybe the most commons things you want and use when you are developing applications. In WPF it often means creating controls library (i don’t mean UserControl) that will be easy to use in multiple applications.

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

25 Mar 2011 by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Tracking High Scores on Windows Phone 7

12 Mar 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

How to implement local high scores in Windows Phone 7

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.

Silverlight

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

17 May 2011 by KevinBhavsar

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

WPF / Silverlight Countdown Timer and Time Ticker TextBlock

25 Apr 2011 by Koder Hack

In one of my applications I had to display a timer for all the items in a ListView, i.e., given the last update time of an item I required to display the time elapsed since the update time and update it after every second.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

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.

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

30 Oct 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.

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”.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

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

Dev

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.

Silverlight

Dev

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.

Silverlight

Dev

How to Create a Simple Arrow in Silverlight?

26 Jan 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will discuss how to create a Silverlight arrow.

Silverlight

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?

Silverlight

How to Pass Values to Silverlight Application from ASPX Page using InitParameter?

24 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

I found various people in different forums asking for the logic on the implementation part for passing value to Silverlight application from ASP.NET application. In this post, I will describe it.

Silverlight

Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML)

3 Aug 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Some of the best practices you should follow while developing in WPF/Silverlight

Silverlight

XAML

MVVM

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

All-Topics

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

Silverlight

MVVM

Tips & Tricks: Session Management in Silverlight

16 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Session Management in Silverlight

Windows

Silverlight

How to Detect Installed Silverlight Version?

23 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to detect installed Silverlight version?

Silverlight

Tips & Tricks: Styling Caret of a Silverlight TextBox Control

10 Oct 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this small tip, I will guide you through changing the Style of Caret of a Silverlight TextBox 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

Silverlight

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

Silverlight

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

21 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

Silverlight

XAML

New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta

7 Dec 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here are the new features announced for Silverlight 5 Beta

Silverlight

Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application

24 Mar 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application

All-Topics

Silverlight

LightSwitch

How to Create a Custom Control in Silverlight

5 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This post will show you how to create a custom control in Silverlight

Silverlight

How to Design a Custom Control by Editing the Part Template?

6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight".

How to Implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control?

6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to implement template binding in Silverlight custom control

How to access Control Template parts from Code Behind

9 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, we will learn how to access the template parts from code behind to do various operations in the UI front.

Silverlight

custom-controls

So What's the Difference Between a Custom Control and User Control?

9 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

That's a good question that came up after the series in my blog.

What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight?

7 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight

Tips: Formatting Silverlight TextBlock Control

9 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to format Silverlight TextBlock control

Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

10 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Using StringFormat to concatenate strings in Silverlight XAML.

Silverlight

XAML

What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls

13 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

What is Character spacing in Silverlight 5 controls

Formatting Text in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

13 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to format text in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

Silverlight

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.

XML

All-Topics

Silverlight

Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5

17 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Learn about Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 with a simple example

Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5

19 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Binding on Style setter in Silverlight 5

Silverlight5

Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Multiple Window Support

24 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 multiple window support

Silverlight5

Silverlight

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

Silverlight5

Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding

27 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding

Silverlight

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

Silverlight5

Silverlight

Dev

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

Silverlight

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.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

Why Visual Studio Debugger is not working for my Silverlight Application?

10 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»