Must-have Tools on Windows - Part 2 of 2
Every technologist has his favourite list of developer tools, applications and OS which they believe are indispensible and without them they would not be abl...
Every technologist has his favourite list of developer tools, applications and OS which they believe are indispensible and without them they would not be abl...
This is in continuation to my previous post Silverlight Best Practices – III, where the focus was what should be and what should not be done while developing...
This is in continuation to my previous post Silverlight Best Practices – I, where I talked about Design Considerations. These design considerations were a b...
[Republished after additions] This is in continuation to my previous post Silverlight Best Practices – II, where I talked about Business Layer Design Conside...
I have been working on Designing and Development of Rich UI applications on Silverlight, and Windows Phone platforms and high performing applications as midd...
Creating page transitions is not difficult at all when you have Silverlight Toolkit available in market. So follow the steps written below Step 1: Using Sil...
One of the converters that my application developerChannel uses is HtmlSanitizer. The purpose of this converter is to remove the HTML formatting from a HTML...
Hello folks, Marching forward, I will post a series of Interview Questions on Silverlight. This will cover questions at each level - easy, intermediate and ...
Customizing Splash Screen (a screen that loads before the Silverlight application loads) requires some development effort in the host application (could be H...
Recently I have delivered a 4-day training session on Silverlight 4 and many participants asked for a sample ClientAccessPolicy.xml file. So this is for thos...
Silverlight 4 brings another feature to desk - NotificationWindow. NotificationWindow is different from PopUp in following ways: NotificationWindow opens a...
Let's discuss yet another feature of Silverlight 4 - right click! This was most wanted feature and Microsoft has really blessed the Silverlight world by givi...
Another cool feature that Microsoft has included in Silverlight 4 is the ability to Print any UI Element to any printer and that too, without any complicated...
ResourceDictionary in Silverlight consists of styles, pallates, and other static resources. These static resources - styles - can be bound to UIElements in t...
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...
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...
Lots of tutorials (using OpenSource VectorLight) covering most of the new Silverlight 4 features including the new COM interop functionality allowing your Si...
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...
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...
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...
Advantages of Silverlight: Rich UI applications using WPF (similar to Desktop applications) Cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in Rich Media experience. Pos...