Silverlight

Dynamic module loading in Prism (CAL)

4 Jun 2010 by Abhinav S

Dynamic module loading in Prism (CAL)

Silverlight - temporary *.XCP files created

21 Aug 2010 by Abhinav S

Temporary XCP files are created on the local drive and are not cleared up until the user manually deletes them.

IE7

IE6.0

Color Code to SolidColor Conversion

10 Jan 2012 by Adam David Hill

I think there might be a couple of typos in the original code. This works, though...public SolidColorBrush GetColor(string ColorCode){ return (SolidColorBrush)XamlReader.Load( "

Creating Metro (Windows 8) Loading Animation Using XAML

19 Feb 2013 by AesopTurtle

Mimic a loading animation as seen in Windows 8 using pure XAML.

XAML tutorial for Manufaktura Controls API

19 Jul 2015 by Ajcek84

Overview of music notation library

Setting Printer Paper Size From Silverlight Application

11 Mar 2013 by Ajit_Pudale

Tips to control printer setting without printdialog in Silverlight

.NET

EmptyDataTemplate for WPF or Silverlight DataGrid

3 Jan 2015 by Ajit_Pudale

Tip to add EmptyDataTemplate in WPF or Silverlight DataGrid

Simple Silverlight MVVM Example using UniformGrid

12 Oct 2014 by Aldonis55

A simple Silverlight application that shows how to apply Jeff Wilcox's UniformGrid control to a bound collection.

Silverlight, PLINQ, and my take on a Semaphore variant.

26 Jun 2011 by Alex Perepletov

LINQ

Attached Dependency Properties in SilverLight 3/4

27 May 2010 by Andrew Rissing

A tip to overcome limitations in Blend 3 and Blend 4 RC when dealing with attached dependency properties.

Expression-blend

Silverlight Marquee

18 Nov 2009 by Anish M

In IE8, it seems that the Marquee tag isn't supported anymore. Need for a Marquee replacement got me into my first Silverlight tryout. Please note, this is done as a quick alternative to the Marquees that didn't scroll in IE8, with something non Javascript. I had to do it since I didn't find anythin

Selecting Phone Book Contacts in Windows Phone using MVVM

31 Jan 2014 by AnobikDey

The article describes how to select all the contacts in Windows Phone 7 and 8

Virtual value converter - Dynamically bind value converters to elements in XAML

24 Dec 2010 by Ashish Kaila

Illustrates how to dynamically bind to value converters in XAML using normal Binding

Silverlight Examples

18 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Here's some particularly amazing Silverlight examples found in the blogosphere. Also, be sure to check out the Silverlight Galleries and the Learn

web

application

Silverlight Blogs

18 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Here are some recommended blogs and podcasts dedicated to Silverlight either completely or for the most part.BlogsList of Silverlight Community

Navigate a Silverlight WebBrowser to a URL with a Hash (Fragment Identifier)

26 Sep 2011 by AspDotNetDev

The Silverlight WebBrowser won't navigate to some URL's, but this can be worked around.

Using HTTP Form POST method to pass parameters from a Silverlight application to an ASPX popup window

Silverlight XPS Viewer in SL4, Support viewbox and viewport property

4 May 2010 by AzharTheGreat

Background...

27 May 2012 by barry fat

How to use HTTP Form POST method to pass parameters from a Silverlight application to an ASPX popup window.

Dev

Apply Animation Concurrently on Multiple Controls

13 Jun 2012 by billxie

Advanced technique to apply animation concurrently on multiple controls.

Silverlight Tip: ScrollViewer for a WrapPanel

4 Oct 2010 by chaitanya venneti

The Silverlight wrap panel is a great control which automatically wraps the elements in it either horizontally or vertically as required to fit them within the size of the panel. This short article explains how to enable a scrollviewer for the wrap panel content.

Scrollbar

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

Custom DomainService Metadata Properties

29 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

This brief tutorial pretends to demonstrate how to add custom properties inside DomainService's metadata class

Encrypt & Decrypt Strings in Silverlight

31 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

A very brief article about the implementation of encryption and decryption of a string in Silverlight Business Application

Strings To Colours

17 Jun 2014 by cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

Silverlight 4 OOB HTTP Download Component with Pause / Resume

14 Feb 2011 by D Joubert

Silverlight 4 OOB download problem solved ! Now we can pause, resume, restart.

C#4.0

MVVM

Detect Design Time Mode in Silverlight

27 Feb 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

In order to detect whether your application is executing in a designer you can either use the GetIsInDesignMode method of DesignerProperties,or the Dependency Property metadata directly like so:C#:bool designTime = (bool)DesignerProperties.IsInDesignModeProperty.GetMetadata( ...

Get the Silverlight Main Dispatcher before the RootVisual has been assigned

27 Feb 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

Ordinarily the Application.Current.RootVisual.Dispatcher property is used to retrieve the System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher for an application. Of course this won't work if performed before the RootVisual has been assigned. To get the Dispatcher for an application before the RootVisual has...

Work-Around for DataContractJsonSerializer ArgumentNullExceptions

24 Oct 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

Stop trailling nulls from preventing deserialization.

Windows-Phone-7

Dynamically send WCF endpoint in Silverlight

15 Aug 2011 by Darek Danielewski

If you are using ChannelFactory to access your WCF service here is another solution: http://pocorath.blogspot.com/2011/08/servicereferencesclientconfig.html[^].

ASM

How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight

11 Feb 2012 by DawningTiger

Simplify Coding DependencyProperty

Visual studio 2010 Tip&Tricks

25 Apr 2010 by dbg_af

Hi,I just built a tips site using Visual Studio 2010, the tips are about Visual Studio 2010,(I built the site using Silverlight and it contains video clips tips)Visit the site at:http://vs2010.zxq.netThanks, ;P

Visual-Studio

Currency Masking in Silverlight Datagrid

7 Aug 2010 by defwebserver

Current masking in Silverlight Datagrid

C#3.5

Restrict a textbox to allow decimal upto two places

17 Jun 2013 by Dipti Dutta

KeyDown event handler to restrict numbers to two decimal places.

Using Design-time Databinding While Developing a WPF User Control

26 Feb 2015 by Dmitriy Repin

A trick that allows populating a user control with sample data while you are designing it in the Visual Studio designer

Save a Telerik Grid to Excel with Filtering

20 May 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to save a Silverlight Telerik grid content to Excel

MS-Excel

Telerik

How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight

19 Jan 2012 by ekolis

Visual Studio already has built-in "code snippets" to handle this; type "propdp" and hit tab. For some reason this doesn't work in Silverlight projects, but you can get around this by copying the snippet from a WPF project into the Silverlight snippets list.

Underappreciated Articles - The Number of Articles here on CodeProject is as we all know - HUGE - and Some Gems are Easily Lost in this Ocean of Knowledge

FsViewModelBase

3 Sep 2016 by epicTurk

F# Quotations support for ViewModelSupport.ViewModelBase Property get\set Accessors

22 Mar 2013 by Espen Harlinn

Articles I feel, and hope, people will appreciate

How to debug a RIA Service Class Library (RIA "magic" demystified)

28 Mar 2012 by fealbernaz

How to debug RIA Service Class Library ( RIA "magic" demystified )

Windows

Dev

How to animate vertical centering of a Silverlight 4 Toolkit Expander within a ScrollViewer

4 Jun 2010 by fjparisIII

Cannot use Storyboard because ScrollView.VerticalOffset property is read-only. Must use old fashioned DispatchTimer.

C#3.0

How to animate vertical scrolling of a Silverlight ScrollViewer a "page" at a time

4 Jun 2010 by fjparisIII

Cannot use Storyboard because ScrollView.VerticalOffset property is read-only. Must use old fashioned DispatchTimer.

Regional date formats and Silverlight 4

2 Oct 2011 by Gary Bilkus

How to get Silverlight 4 to display dates by default using the regional settings in the Control Panel.

DateTime

Integrate HSS Interlink with Microsoft LightSwitch

18 Nov 2011 by Glen Banta

Integrating the HSS Interlink UploadFileDialog feature with Microsoft’s application platform, LightSwitch for Visual Studio.

.NET

LightSwitch

How to display data of one column in format of grid in Silverlight

29 Apr 2010 by Grishma Shah

Introduction:...

How to draw a two color line in Silverlight

29 Jul 2011 by gsvolt

Draing a two-color line in Silverlight.

Windows Phone 7: Silverlight, using multiple Software Input Panels in your applications

15 Dec 2010 by h32

Actually you can just set it as an attribute:

general

Silverlight: Use KnownColor Through the Backdoor

5 Aug 2010 by Henry Minute

A possible alternative solution. I say possible because I have no idea if it will work in Silverlight and even if it does whether it will be any easier/faster. public Color ColorFromName(string name) { Color result = Colors.Black; Type type =...

Draw Triangle Algorithm (2D)

8 Jun 2010 by Herre Kuijpers

Short and efficient algorithm for pixel plotting a 2D triangle on a bitmap

Data Binding Using IValueConverter in Silverlight

2 Aug 2011 by Hiren Khirsaria

Silverlight with IValueConverter to to Format Data

Hide DevExpress AgDataGrid Header MenuItem in Silverlight

25 Dec 2011 by Hiren Khirsaria

AgDataGridHeaderMenu

DevExpress

Focus CellEditTemplate on selection of Silverlight DataGridRow

16 Dec 2011 by Hiren Khirsaria

Edit Selected row Data using CellEditTemplate

Bing Maps in Windows Phone

9 Nov 2012 by Houssem_Dellai

Using Bing Maps in Windows Phone 7

Silverlight combobox without items source with a bound selected value

8 Sep 2011 by Ian Landicho

A simple combo box that will have predefined items but the selected value bound to a property from our View Model.

combobox

A post about Silverlight Focusing Issue

22 Feb 2011 by İlkay İlknur

Silverlight Focusing Issue

Silverlight4

Silverlight FluentDataGrid

21 Jan 2013 by Ilnur Yusupov

Silverlight Fluent DataGrid provides a simple approach for creating complex tables with multi level headers, validation, hierarchy, and summaries support.

.NET

Dev

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

16 Nov 2011 by Ilya Builuk

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

Playing a Sound in Windows Phone using Media Element

21 Jul 2012 by isenthil

How to play a sound in Windows Phone using media element

How to Get Full File Path in Silverlight

26 Jun 2013 by Ivan Signore

A workaround to SecurityException while getting file's full path in Silverlight

Javascript

ASP.NET

Tips & Tricks: How to get the Screen Resolution in Silverlight?

6 Feb 2012 by janman_dk

This works when running in browser. If you need to obtain this information when running OOB, see this article: http://www.pitorque.de/MisterGoodcat/post/Determine-screen-resolution-in-Silverlight-OOB.aspx[^].

Silverlight 4 - Converting to image and printing a UIElement in multiple pages

2 Sep 2011 by jawaharks

Silverlight 4 printing restricts any control to print in a single page, leaving the remaning portion. This is a workaround for that.

printing

A 2D Grid Splitter

19 Sep 2012 by Jens Theisen

A grid splitter separating four quadrants

ScrollIntoView for a DataGrid when using MVVM

8 Nov 2010 by JeroenVonk

MVVM

WCF and Silverlight - Putting Your Code All Together

5 Jan 2011 by jerpat

How to get (almost) all your code in one place when using WCF together with Silverlight

WCF

synchronize

Windows Phone 7: Silverlight, using multiple Software Input Panels in your applications

15 Oct 2010 by Josué Yeray Julián Ferreiro

Change the Sip used to enter text on any textbox based on the use you need of that textbox.

general

MVVM Delegate Command with an ObservableCollection

18 Sep 2010 by Juan Pablo G.C.

Loading from webservice and after a processing update the UI

MVVM

Synchronize ListBoxes easy

22 Sep 2010 by Juan Pablo G.C.

An easy answer;

Silverlight Get REAL Visible Items in a Container (WrapPanel)

28 Sep 2010 by Juan Pablo G.C.

Using this you can animate or change states of the actually visible items

WP7 App Resources Translator using Bing services

13 Oct 2010 by Juan Pablo G.C.

To translate App Resources

Windows-Phone-7

Fix PlayReady DRMs not working in Silverlight after installing SL5 RC

2 Oct 2011 by Julien Villers

After installing the RC of Silverlight 5, you can't play DRM protected videos, here's a fix.

Silverlight5