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.

Silverlight

WPF

controls

patterns

A Simple Silverlight Object Viewer

29 Jan 2012 by Don Kackman

A simple Silverlight object viewer

Silverlight

XAML

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.

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

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #37

15 Oct 2010 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

entity-framework

Silverlight

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.

.NET

entity-framework

Silverlight

An HTTP POST Client for Windows Phone 7

19 May 2011 by Vangos Pterneas

An easy-to-use, thread-safe library which works similarly to WebClient!

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

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

Authentication against Custom Table In Silverlight4 Using RIA Service

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

Authentication against custom table in Silverlight4 using RIA service

Silverlight

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

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

Beginning a Silverlight Journey

23 Nov 2010 by stephen.vaubell

Beginning a Silverlight journey

Silverlight

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

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

Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5

19 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Binding on Style setter in Silverlight 5

Silverlight5

Silverlight

Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight: A Gotcha

13 Feb 2011 by Tony Champion (Champion DS)

Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight: A Gotcha

Silverlight

MVVM

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.

Binding to Image Path in Isolated Storage

19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev

Binding to Image Path in Isolated Storage

Silverlight

Calling into your database on Silverlight Application_Exit

19 Mar 2013 by DapperDanH

Calling into your database on Silverlight Application_Exit.

Silverlight

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

Cascading Combo Box Data Using RIA in Silverlight 4

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

In this post, we will replicate the cascade combo box loading scenario, where data of other combos depend on the selection in the first.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

Change Silverlight Business Application template to handle login state events

12 Feb 2011 by ozkary

Change Silverlight Business Application template to handle login state events

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

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

Consuming External WebService from Silverlight Application

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

How to consume external webservice from Silverlight application

Silverlight

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

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

Creating Powerpoint Table using ‘OpenXML’ with XAML Applications

18 Oct 2014 by adityaswami89

A generic way of adding a table to Powerpoint using OpenXML

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

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

17 May 2011 by KevinBhavsar

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes

22 Nov 2010 by mbcrump

Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes

HTML

Silverlight

Data Aggregation Using Presentation Model in RIA and Silverlight 4

13 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

An in-depth look into the Presentation Model and its mode of handling related multiple entities

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

Debugging XAML Binding with Silverlight 5

15 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

Debugging XAML Binding with Silverlight 5

Silverlight

XAML

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

29 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

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!

Deploying Silverlight with WCF Services

1 Feb 2011 by Tony Champion (Champion DS)

Deploying Silverlight with WCF Services

Design Time Formatting of RichTextBox in Silverlight 4

18 Jan 2013 by Mamta D

Design Time Formatting of RichTextBox in Silverlight 4

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

Element Binding in Silverlight

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

Achieving a Twitter page like functionality using Element Binding in Silverlight.

Elevated trust in Silverlight 4

9 Nov 2010 by Wayne Ye

Elevated trust in Silverlight 4

Silverlight

Error handling with Silverlight and WCF

20 Sep 2009 by Paul_Wade

A better way to handle errors and provide a useful message back to the user in Silverlight.

Silverlight

WCF

Dev

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.

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

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

13 Jan 2010 by User 271009

WPF and Silverlight Design-Time code sharing

Silverlight

WPF

Formatting Text in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

13 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to format text in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

Silverlight

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

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

5 Jun 2012 by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

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

Highlighted Features & Improvements In Silverlight 5

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Highlighted Features & Improvements In Silverlight 5

Silverlight

RIA

MVVM

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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 Detect Installed Silverlight Version?

23 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to detect installed Silverlight version?

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 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

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

21 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

Silverlight

XAML

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?

All-Topics

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 Use Your Own Fonts Within Silverlight

11 Jan 2011 by JamesHurst

How to use your own fonts within Silverlight

Silverlight

How To: Initialize a Game on Windows Phone with XPG

31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

Initialize a game on Windows Phone with XPG

How To: Make XAML Content Globalizable When Using Value Converters

9 Jul 2012 by Paulo Morgado

How to make XAML Content Globalizable when using value converters

How To: Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

HTML5 vs FLASH vs SILVERLIGHT

22 Nov 2011 by GraemeKMiller

HTML5 vs Flash vs Silverlight

HTML5

Silverlight

Flash

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

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

Silverlight

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

17 Mar 2010 by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

Implementing the GeoCoordinateWatcher as a Reactive Service

28 Jan 2013 by Paulo Morgado

With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.

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

Silverlight

Is Silverlight Eating Adobe's Bread and Butter?

6 May 2010 by rudigrobler

Is Silverlight eating Adobe's bread and butter?

Silverlight

Lightweight Task Scheduling for .NET / Silverlight

13 Feb 2010 by Philipp Sumi

A lightweight task scheduling library that allows you to easily schedule the invocation of callback methods at specified times or intervals. Supports .NET 3.5 and Silverlight.

Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit

19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev

Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit.

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile