Silverlight 4 Security Overview White Paper
I came through a wonderful link that focuses on Security with Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications. Kudos to Nick, who has explained this wonderfull...
I came through a wonderful link that focuses on Security with Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications. Kudos to Nick, who has explained this wonderfull...
I was trying my hands on Silverlight 4 Beta version and found this is wonderful control - RichTextBox.. This was much needed on Web Platform and Microsoft ha...
A question that boggles our mind and makes us think many times. Which binding should be used when? Let's throw some light on this. Case 1: Interaction with ...
One of the features of WPF that we might be keen in implementing in Silverlight is changing the themes dynamically at runtime. So let us understand how to a...
This is an implementation of a container that can be moved, dragged within the scope of a Silverlight Application. Currently, the FloatingContainer is deriv...
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Lots of tutorials (using OpenSource VectorLight) covering most of the new Silverlight 4 features including the new COM interop functionality allowing your Si...
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Enabling Silverlight Installation on Desktop To enable installation of Silverlight applications on Desktop, we need to add some custom code in Property > ...
MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) is the new mantra for designing XAML based applications. This is brought out to address the emerging change in the approach of s...
The difference between a generic list List<T> and an observable collection ObservableCollection<T> is that observable collection includes an inte...
Many have answered this question and many have asked me the same... So after research from various sites including http://silverlight.net and http://blogs.ms...
How often you have seen Silverlight applications getting hosted as Destkop Applications? Not many times! Yes, like Flex getting hosted on AIR platform - Sil...
Microsoft.Expression.Interactions namespace ships with an interesting control - ControlStoryBoardAction. This control can be applied on any Silverlight UI C...
Installation failed with error code: (0x80091007), The hash value is not correct. Silverlight 3 Tools fails with this error only when there is NO internet co...
Visifire is one of my favourite charting tools in Silverlight. I love playing with it in my free-time at home on my Windows 2003 server machine :) This post ...
Designing a PopUp in Silverlight is one of the common tasks in Silverlight Application Development. Let's see a code snippet that can help you do that in fe...
I've been asked this ample times at my work place - how to implement a zoom in/out effect on any Silverlight Control. So let us take an example:- You have yo...
Code# 2103 Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest Now what does that mean? This is not easy to interpret, but is very easy to fix :) This error pop...
By default the IIS on Vista would not be configured. And while publishing using VS 2008, you might face error such as "IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration...
Instantiate a FileInfo object with the full path as constructor arg. Then simply call FileInfo.Extension and you will get just the extension of the file. F...
Though this boils down to basics, these are most often missed out in projects and hence are performance issues. http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/oreilly/dotnet/ne...
Choose a textbox over which we will test this experiment: [sourcecode language='csharp'] ColorDialog colorDialog1 = new ColorDialog(); //fontDialog1.ShowColo...
Developers often make a decision blindly - they choose a datagrid over datalist and repeater. But that should not be a case. Datagrid provides ability to all...
While the community comes up with the new version of Silverlight Toolkit for Silverlight 3. Let us see how it is installed. When installing, ensure that foll...
These are few tips to increase SQL Performance: An index increases time to perform INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE operations. So minimal uses of indexes should b...
While I was working on a project that involved designing WCF services as Backend layer, I ended up defining a class [Serializable] public class ProgramDetail...
Check out: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q326/2/01.asp It is indeed a good read.
Retrieving GAC assemblies and their information. This was a question posed by one of my colleagues while he was developing a product. Now the answer to this...
The solution attached with the post is a very easiest way to host a Silverlight Application in any Sharepoint site. Ready-to-use component is just 9 KB. You...
WebBrowser control can be used inside a form to display HTML contents and listen to events such as NavigateComplete or BeforeNavigate Use of ActiveX wrappers...
Understanding the scenario We were working on a Windows Service for a large US bank when we discovered that there are potential issues while using Static Cla...
DataGridView is an enhanced version of DataGrid. Some of the features lacking in DataGrid are: Multiple column types Multiple ways to display data Multiple...
Interface oriented is something like having contract-based approach, means whatsoever be there under the Contract you have to implement all of it. A good exa...
Use the form's WindowState property. To minimize: this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Minimized; To maximize: this.WindowState = S...
Best way to deploy is by using ClickOnce deployment. This allows user to get regular updates, patches to the product while conforming to the security standar...
Use Singleton pattern on Child Form and change the method of invocation in Parent form. Child form: //Used for singleton pattern static frmChildForm childFor...
Being a hardcore C developer, I always doubted whether JIT is actually performance centric or not. But guys! It is awesome. Kudos to Microsoft for this wonde...
An easier way to control properties of multiple controls is to place all the controls into a single GroupBox and then use the GroupBox properties property to...
Good question! Now, this was a question in one of my sessions at Microsoft Community at Cognizant. We need to use User32 API's to do this stuff. It isn't t...
The opacity property enables you to specify a level of transparency for the form and its controls. See the .NET documentation for Form.Opacity for difference...
This has been pending since long. People have been requesting this information and I've not been able to find time to write on Best Practices. And this fine ...
Oops! Never expected this behavior from such a standard control: Winforms ComboBox. One of the common things our applications require is bind a data source w...
Its time to forget the old traditional message box with limited functionalities. buttons, icons, text area and what not! Microsoft has unleashed a new mess...
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Wow! What a great response from you all! 157 downloads in less than 17 days is a great response.. Thanks to all! But this also brings an additional responsi...