An extension of the code submitted in the article: "Modal Window in Silverlight". This extension wraps the hosted control in a window frame that provides various modal features.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

(Much) Faster Silverlight Scrolling

10 Dec 2008 by Jerry Evans

Improving scrolling performance in Silverlight

.NET Code or SQL – Where’s the Performance Problem?

18 Oct 2011 by Redgate Software

Identifying an application’s performance bottlenecks is all about understanding how the application is spending its time. Only with the most complete understanding of how an application is operating is it possible to understand what it is doing wrong, as this article describes.

.NET Library to Easily Save Property Data

12 May 2014 by Brad Joss

[RegSave] your property to the Registry, and more.

.NET String Resources

19 Apr 2012 by Jani Giannoudis

Concepts and patterns for the handling of strings in multilingual applications.

10 Cool Buttons for Download in Expression Blend & Silverlight

13 Jul 2010 by Alan Beasley

The WC Door button, covering all the missing skills needed to create the buttons shown in my first tutorial. As well as all 10 buttons for download!

3 Ways of Applying Layouts using Silverlight

8 Oct 2009 by Shivprasad koirala

3 ways of applying layouts using Silverlight

Silverlight

Architect

3D Basics using Silverlight-5 and XNA

12 Dec 2011 by MetaMapper (Andy Powell)

A minimal 3D program showing how to use XNA in Silverlight-5, with a full explanation of the core concepts

3D Basics using Silverlight-5 and XNA (Part 2)

12 Dec 2011 by MetaMapper (Andy Powell)

Learn 3D programming with Silverlight-5 and XNA

4 Simple Steps to Consume WCF Service using Silverlight

13 Aug 2010 by Shivprasad koirala

4 simple steps to consume WCF service using Silverlight

Silverlight

WCF

Architect

7 Simple Steps to Connect SQL Server using WCF from SilverLight

12 Aug 2010 by Shivprasad koirala

In this article, we will look at how we can do database operations using SilverLight.

A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7

29 Jan 2011 by 69Icaro

Analyzing the Snake game, we'll study an application for the new Windows Phone 7 platform, focusing on localization, Inversion of Control, navigation, transition effects, triggers, Isolated Storage, audio and we'll also use Blend to create a rounded glowing button, and other things...

A Beginner's Guide to Silverlight

11 Dec 2011 by Raj Lal

Chapter 11 of "Fun with Silverlight 4" More information at http://silverlightfun.com

A C# WPF .NET 4.0 NumberBox UserControl

28 Mar 2012 by Christopher Camacho

A user control for entering numeric values

A ContactLOB line-of-business application sample - Login: Silverlight, MVVM, WCF RIA Services

20 Feb 2012 by BrizkCRM

A Silverlight LOB application tutorial.

Silverlight

Dev

A framework for building of WP7 application

11 Feb 2012 by Ilya Builuk

This article describes the key principles of PhoneCore Framework implementation and how to use it for building Windows Phone 7 application.

A Generic Class for Wrapping Asynchronous Begin/End Operations, Using Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx)

3 Feb 2010 by User 4677916

This article presents a reusable class and technique for easily doing Asynchronous Programming using the Begin/End Pattern and the new Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) library.

A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight

31 Mar 2009 by Timmy Kokke

A detailed walkthrough on how to style a basic Silverlight button into a "Glass Orb" button.

A Guide to Cleaner XAML with Custom Namespaces and Prefixes (WPF/Silverlight)

22 Sep 2010 by Sandrino Di Mattia

Clean up and manage your XAML references. This can be done using custom namespaces (scheme URLs) and custom prefixes.

A Keyboard Selection Enabled ComboBox in Silverlight

24 Mar 2010 by Alishah Novin

Currently, ComboBoxItems cannot be selected using the keyboard - only the mouse. This is an attempt to resolve that.

A More Flexible and Secure Method to Configure Silverlight Applications Using the Web.config File from ASP.NET

3 Feb 2010 by Dr. Song Li

This article introduces a more flexible and secure method to configure Silverlight applications using the Web.config file from the ASP.NET host application.

A Multilingual Silverlight Virtual Keyboard

10 Jul 2009 by Andrius Mudinas

A multilingual Silverlight virtual keyboard.

A paged searchable ListBox control in Silverlight 2

21 Jul 2009 by Alberto Venditti

How to implement paging and filtering on a Silverlight 2 ListBox.

A Pivot Grid for Data Warehousing on Microsoft Silverlight™ 3

1 Dec 2009 by J. Ambrose Little

When your boss asks you to create applications transforming your data warehouse into business intelligence, you need the right set of Silverlight 3 tools to make this transformation quickly and easily. Here is a pivot grid control that really gets the job done.

A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM

6 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.

A Pong in Silverlight

31 Aug 2011 by pierre poliakoff

A tutorial on how to write a Silverlight game based on the classical Pong game.

Silverlight3

Silverlight

game

A Practical Quick-start Tutorial on MVVM in WPF

21 May 2010 by Dr. Song Li

This article gives a practical quick-start tutorial on MVVM in WPF for application developers.

A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)

11 Jan 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)

A Random Walk Through of the LightSwitch Data Model

10 Sep 2011 by defwebserver

We will create a Silverlight Custom Control called “LightSwitch Explorer” that will display information about the collections of the screen that it is displayed on, raise methods, and switch screens.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 1

7 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 2

8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this second part, we will go through various topics on how MVVM Light Toolkit is used in our sample application.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 3

8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this part, we will discuss how custom authentication, reset password, and user maintenance are implemented in the sample application.

A Silverlight application with the WCF RIA Services Class Library

3 Mar 2010 by Jevgenij Pankov

A Silverlight application using the WCF RIA Services Class Library. Demonstrates how to implement a custom Authorization Service, utilize localized resources, and add unit tests for DAL.

A Silverlight control to parse Excel data into a flat collection

7 Apr 2014 by I.explore.code

A Silverlight custom control for zooming and panning with a small window to see he image with thumb

15 Mar 2011 by Hiren Khirsaria

Zooming and panning an image in a Silverlight application.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

A Silverlight Developer’s Look at TFS 2010 Remote Hosting

5 Apr 2011 by mbcrump

A Silverlight Developer’s look at TFS 2010 Remote Hosting

.NET

Silverlight

A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM)

30 Aug 2010 by defwebserver

This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal

A Silverlight Introduction for Line-of-Business Applications

30 Aug 2009 by Xavier Spileers

An introduction on Silverlight for developers of administrative applications. The article starts by explaining the basics of WPF and then delves deeper in the business-oriented aspects.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 1

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 2

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 3

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 4

12 Apr 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 4 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Video Player Carousel Control

22 Oct 2009 by cokkiy

VideoCarousel is a Silverlight V2 control that can play media in an interactive carousel.

A Silverlight WidgetZone Control

21 Oct 2009 by cokkiy

Widget developing is more and more in fashion today, drag and drop support is a basic function in a widget platform. If you want to develop a Silverlight widget platform, you may need a Panel which supports drag and drop UIElement on it. The WidgetZone is a Panel that can be used in such cases.

A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library

28 Jun 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library

A Simple Computation API with Progress Tracking

25 Apr 2011 by David Sehnal

A computation wrapper with built-in progress tracking using Reactive Extensions for .NET (and AsyncCTP).

A Simple Flexible Silverlight Splash Screen

15 Dec 2009 by Dr. Song Li

This article shows a simple and flexible way of creating a Silverlight splash screen.

A Simple GB2312/GBK Encoder for Silverlight

31 Mar 2011 by Wang Hai Feng

A simple GB2312/GBK encoder for Silverlight

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

A Simple Quickstart - Using the Unity Container with Silverlight

12 Jan 2010 by Abhinav S

A simple Quickstart for using the Unity Container with Silverlight.

A Simple Silverlight RSS Reader

21 Jun 2010 by Arun Jacob

This is a simple Silverlight RSS Reader which pulls out data from a feed URL.

A Simple Smart Solution for Silverlight Versioning Conflicts

22 Oct 2008 by Mekki Ahmedi

A solution for Silverlight versioning conflicts

A Simple Solution to Some Problems with Asynchrony in Silverlight

9 Mar 2010 by George Henry 1954

A small, extensible suite of classes that elegantly solve some common problems involving asynchrony and event handling that tend to occur when Silverlight and WCF are used together.

A Simple Treeview in Silverlight 2b1

14 May 2008 by Valentin Billotte

Creating a templatable treeview in Silverlight

Silverlight

A Simple XML Parser from Scratch

8 Jul 2011 by rj45

For performance reasons, I decided to write my own XML parser.

A single-file function parser to use with WPF, Silverlight, and SQL Server CLR

6 Jun 2013 by don!marco

A lightweight, single-file function parser, which uses an Excel like syntax.

A Smart Behavior for DataGrid.AutoGenerateColumns

27 Sep 2014 by Frank W. Wu

Using AutoGenerateColumns to generate exactly as needed data columns

A Stacked Bar Chart Silverlight Control

3 May 2009 by S1mm0t

A stacked Bar Chart control for Silverlight

A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

8 Oct 2013 by Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

A Tale of Two CoverFlows

18 Oct 2012 by Ian Reah

Two basic coverflow controls - one in JavaScript and one in Silverlight

A Totally Simple Introduction to the MVVM Concept with Silverlight

5 May 2011 by Pat Capozzi

In this article, I reduce the use of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight to the absolute minimum lines of code in order to understand the basics.

A ViewStack Component for Silverlight 2 with Transitions and Cache management

20 Oct 2008 by Anil Kumar T R

An enhanced ViewStack component for Silverlight 2 with transitions and cache management.

A Windows Phone 7 App from the Ground Up

21 Dec 2010 by Don Kackman

Building a WP7 browser app for last.fm

A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code

4 Jan 2013 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking application that uses a number of the new Windows Phone 8 features.

ASM

Windows-Phone-8

Silverlight

A Zune Style Application Template for WPF and Silverlight

25 Jun 2012 by Dave Kerr

A Zune Style Application Template that makes a great starting point for WPF or Silverlight Projects

Access a Web Service from a Silverlight Application

2 Oct 2011 by Shining Legend

This article discusses how to access a Web Service from a Silverlight Application. It has sample code attached.

Silverlight

Access Control in Multi-Tenant Applications with Visual Guard

31 Aug 2012 by Novalys

As companies look for different ways to manage their IT needs, “Multi-tenant” and “SaaS” applications are becoming more and more common. However, they also pose unique challenges. We will look at security administration and user management in a multi-tenant application with Visual Guard.

Access Sessions from Silverlight and ASP.NET

20 Jan 2009 by A. Rajesh Kumar

Add or Retrieve Session Object from Silverlight and ASP.NET

Accessing Hardware in Silverlight using COM

26 May 2010 by esaulsberry

An example of a COM object written in C# that allows access to hardware from Silverlight

Achieve Loose Coupling with the WPF/Silverlight EventBroker

8 Jun 2010 by David Bobeck

Using attached properties in WPF or Silverlight to loosely couple UI element events to arbitrary code.

Achieve Unbeatable Performance with RadControls for Silverlight! Working with 50 million cells has never been faster

16 Mar 2010 by Evan Hutnick

This whitepaper explains how through smart use of UI and Data virtualization, content recycling, XAML optimizations and more, RadControls for Silverlight deliver first-class performance.

aCloud WebOS

4 May 2011 by Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya

aCloud Web Operation System running on the cloud

Acquiring Images from Scanners and Webcams in Visual Studio LightSwitch

26 Oct 2011 by Alessandro Del Sole

This article explains how to acquire images from scanners and Webcams and how to store them to a LightSwitch application's database

Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application

29 Mar 2011 by Mircea Deliu

In this article, you will find out what you need to do if you want to add a Facebook Like button to your Silverlight application.

Silverlight

XAML

Adding a Location Crosshair to Silverlight Charts

17 May 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

This technical blog post details the differences in the latest release of the Silverlight charts and shows how to add a location crosshair.

XML

Silverlight

Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions

22 Mar 2011 by mbcrump

Easy way to add Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

Silverlight

Adding New Database Reports to .NET Client Apps Without Re-Deployment - An Odyssey Through Dynamic LINQ and Reflection Hackery

8 Jun 2012 by Adam David Hill

This article solves the problem of having to redeploy everything whenever you create a new stored procedure database report.

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #20

1 Sep 2009 by mrjvdveen

Some of the less technical (a.k.a functional) stuff around code generation, especially when using XAML, it being in either Silverlight or WPF

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #24

7 Oct 2009 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

All-Topics

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #25

8 Oct 2009 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #25

XML

All-Topics

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #26

26 Oct 2009 by mrjvdveen

A more generic solution to databind to some primitive type variables like a bool or a string

Silverlight

Adventures while Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #29

19 Nov 2009 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #34

18 Nov 2010 by mrjvdveen

Analyzing performance in a Silverlight Line Of Business application, including multiple service layers

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #35

9 Aug 2010 by mrjvdveen

Something I ran into while doing rework on our framework - it involves the order in which code gets executed when using events and such

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #38

16 Nov 2010 by mrjvdveen

A problem most of us will encounter while building a Line Of Business application in Silverlight - it involves UI paradigms combined with the asynchronous communication model

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #4

18 Aug 2009 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

Adventures while Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #41

21 Feb 2011 by mrjvdveen

In this post, we dive into this tiny change that caused a weird bug in the WCF communication between our Silverlight client and one of our web services.

Silverlight

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application: Part #21

8 Sep 2009 by mrjvdveen

Why and how we chose Silverlight and how we (or at least I) learned to use the Silverlight technology

chromeOS

Silverlight

Dev

Align Text in Autogenerated Column of Rad Silverlight Girdview and Silverlight Gridview

18 Jul 2012 by Pranay Rana

Align Text in Autogenerated Column of Rad Silverlight Girdview and Silverlight Gridview

Silverlight4

Silverlight

An Advanced Visual Studio LightSwitch Application

14 Dec 2011 by defwebserver

An Advanced Visual Studio LightSwitch Application

An attempt to make the Silverlight DataGrid similar to Excel

9 Jan 2010 by Paul B.

Business users love them some Excel. Using similar navigation and features helps with buy-in for your applications.

Windows

Silverlight

Dev

An Introduction to Silverlight

17 Feb 2010 by keesari_anjaiah

The definition of Silverlight, the purpose of the Silverlight technology, and the different versions released so far. You will also read about the development tools required to work with Silverlight.

Analyzing Data Shouldn’t be Rocket Science: OLAP for Silverlight

9 Feb 2011 by Greg Lutz

Learn how to perform OLAP analysis on plain data (no need to setup SQL cubes on your server). With ComponentOne OLAP™ for Silverlight Beta you have the tools to create interactive tables, charts, and reports. Drag-and-drop views give you real-time information, insights, and results in seconds.

Silverlight

Visual-Studio

product-showcase

Anatomy of HTML5/JavaScript Single Page Application in Samples (basics, navigation, composition, communications with the server)

20 Dec 2012 by Nick Polyak

Describes Single Page Applications and a new BPF Framework that helps to develop SPAs.

Animation Along a Path for Silverlight

4 Mar 2009 by lneir

Animates an object along a geometric path

Animation in Silverlight

9 Jun 2010 by keesari_anjaiah

In this chapter, you will be learning the fundamental concepts of Animations in Silverlight Application, which includes Animation Types, namespace details, classes, objects used, implementation of different types of animations with XAML and with C# code ...

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

Apex Part 1: Create Your First MVVM Application

21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr