Silverlight

More Uses for Value Converters and Extension Methods in Silverlight Binding

I’m working on a super quick Silverlight 2 application for a restaurant kiosk. We’re using EF and Astoria / ADO.NET Data Services as our data provider, and...

0 replies - 1436 views - 03/07/09 by Psychlist1972 in News

The State of Silverlight 2 Books

The past couple weeks I’ve seen a number of people asking for Silverlight book recommendations. Although I haven’t read all the below books; I’ve put...

0 replies - 1663 views - 03/06/09 by cschuman in News

Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2

One aspect of Custom Control development is the understanding of Dependency Properties. Essentially what dependency properties do, is enhance the properties...

0 replies - 873 views - 02/18/09 by XamlMammal in News

XAML Guidelines and Best Practices

Everyone has their own opinion on how source code should be structured and formatted.  What really matters when it comes to code is not saving the CPU a...

0 replies - 1038 views - 02/10/09 by cschuman in News

.NET Fireside Chats - Laurent Bugnion on 'Silverlight 2 Unleashed'

DZone recently had an opportunity to sit down with Laurent Bugnion, author of 'Silverlight 2 Unleashed'.  In this interview, Laurent discusses the origins and...

0 replies - 982 views - 01/21/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Silverlight 2 - Drag and Drop Part 2 of 2

This is part 2 of the drag and drop videos, this is where I show a different method than the one provided by silverlight.net. Basically I found the concept...

1 replies - 1055 views - 01/13/09 by XamlMammal in Videos

Subscribe to the Expression Newsletter

A great but sometimes overlooked resource for Silverlight and WPF developers is the Expression Newsletter. It covers the Expression suite as a whole, but...

0 replies - 358 views - 01/08/09 by Psychlist1972 in News

Silverlight 2 - Drag and Drop Part 1 of 2

I have started to do more videos, this is a two part series on drag and drop. This first part is very basic drag and drop scenario, its built around the...

0 replies - 1344 views - 01/01/09 by XamlMammal in Videos

Silverlight ToolTips – Positioning and Customizing

Customizing

0 replies - 819 views - 12/28/08 by cschuman in News

How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 1 of 2

I’m about to embark on some very different Silverlightapplication development projects (primary around data-driven UI, andone potential one even about...

0 replies - 2414 views - 12/04/08 by Psychlist1972 in News

Silverlight Glass Button

Martin Grayson wrote an amazing tutorial about how to create a WPF glass button using blendin his blog. He explained each and everything in very details with...

0 replies - 3177 views - 11/21/08 by Michael Sync in News

Book Review: Silverlight 2 in Action - Free Copy For The Best Comment

Have you guys read Silverlight 2 in Action book?

2 replies - 2941 views - 11/20/08 by Michael Sync in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 3 Wrap-Up

Announcments from Microsoft Research The PDC 2008 Day 3 keynote was presented by Rick Rachid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. Eight different...

0 replies - 971 views - 10/31/08 by alashcraft in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 2 Wrap-Up

Windows 7, Office 14, Live Services, Visual Studio 2010 Tuesday’s first keynote focused on several different Microsoft products and technologies: Windows 7,...

0 replies - 1239 views - 10/29/08 by alashcraft in News

Overview of Databinding in Silverlight

The goal the below code is to bind data using XAML.  So, for the example I used MLB Pitching stats for 2008, created a Pitcher object, then a...

0 replies - 2029 views - 10/09/08 by cschuman in News