Latest Articles in the Category Silverlight

Silverlight: IronPython in the browser Part 2

Manning Publications, Mar 03, 2010
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This article is an excerpt taken from IronPython in Action, by Michael J. Foord and Christian Muirhead and published by Manning Publications. In the article the authors discuss how to take advantage of the exciting Silverlight platform with IronPython.

Silverlight: IronPython in the browser Part 1

Manning Publications, Feb 23, 2010
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This article is an excerpt taken from IronPython in Action, by Michael J. Foord and Christian Muirhead and published by Manning Publications. In the article the authors discuss how to take advantage of the exciting Silverlight platform with IronPython.

Cloning Windows Solitaire Game in Silverlight 3 - Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu, Feb 08, 2010
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In this second part of the series, you will learn the crucial programming skills of the solitaire game. In detail, we are going to discuss about the three mouse events, i.e. MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseMove, and MouseLeftButtonUp, related event handler programming.

Cloning Windows Solitaire Game in Silverlight 3 - Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu, Feb 05, 2010
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In the two parts of this series, you will learn to write a Silverlight 3 based solitaire game like the one shipped with various Windows versions. The main purpose to write this game is to explore the mouse drag and drop related programming in Siverlight 3.

Dynamic Manipulation of Silverlight controls

Medusa M, Feb 01, 2010
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In this article, you will learn how to create and delete Silverlight controls or XAML elements at runtime. You will also learn how to create event handlers and associate them with the dynamically created control at runtime.

A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu, Jan 06, 2010
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In this second part, we will continue to discuss the WaspKiller game development—to extend the functionalities with the server-side database support. As mentioned in the first part, we’re going to rest upon another well-known design pattern, MVVM, to achieve the extension, and at the same time, introduce Microsoft .NET RIA Services framework to smooth out the whole architecture design.

A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu, Dec 29, 2009
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In this article, we will focus upon the development of the front end of the game using the MVP pattern; in the second part, we will discuss the database related work using the MVVM pattern.

Creating a Data-enabled Silverlight application

Medusa M, Sep 18, 2009
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This article discusses the techniques for working with data in Silverlight 2 and 3 using a WCF Service and a LINQToSQL class.

SharePoint Hosts a Silverlight 3.0 Control which consumes a basic WCF Service

Majid Malik, Sep 16, 2009
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In this short article a step-by-step process will be laid-out which will show how to develop a Silverlight 3.0 control and how to insert it into a SharePoint page.

Silverlight Local Communication API

Manfred Pohler, Sep 11, 2009
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This article shows how to use the new Silverlight Local Communication API to connect Silverlight Islands in an ASPX Website.

Introducing Surface LibraryBar And LibraryStack Control

Faisal Khan, Sep 03, 2009
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An Introduction to the Surface LibraryBarControl that is included in Surface SDK 1.0 SP 1

Creating RIA Services With Silverlight 3 Part-2

Faisal Khan, Aug 27, 2009
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In this article you will see what RIA Services actually are and how to use them with Silverlight.

Creating Breadcrumb Design for Silverlight 3 in Expression Blend

Faisal Khan, Aug 06, 2009
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How to implement the Breadcrumb design pattern with Expression Blend and Silverlight 3.

The DataForm Control in Silverlight 3—Revisited

Dino Esposito, Aug 05, 2009
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Dino Esposito discusses the DataForm control in the Silverlight 3 Toolkit.

Discovering Silverlight 3 – Deep Dive into GPU Acceleration

András Velvárt, Jul 30, 2009
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GPU Acceleration in Silverlight 3 is one of its most touted features – but it only helps in certain situations. This article will help you understand how GPU acceleration works, and when you should or should not use it. This article is the next one in my "Discovering Silverlight 3" series.

RIA Services With Silverlight 3 - Part 1

Faisal Khan, Jul 28, 2009
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What RIA services actually are and how to use them with Silverlight.

Examining Silverlight Controls – Part 3

Medusa M, Jul 19, 2009
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In the third part of this series, we will explore layout controls in Silverlight 2.0.

Examining Silverlight Controls – Part 2

Medusa M, Jul 03, 2009
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In the second part of this series, we will continue to examine and explore more of Silverlight 2.0’s controls.

Silverlight 3 and the Data Form Control—part I

Dino Esposito, Jun 21, 2009
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Dino will briefly go through some patterns that help organizing the presentation layer and then focus on a new control in Silverlight 3 that makes data entry a pleasant breeze.

Examining Silverlight Controls

Medusa M, Jun 15, 2009
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In this article, you will learn how to work with a few basic controls using Blend and Silverlight.

A Simple Silverlight + Blend Tutorial

Medusa M, Mar 16, 2009
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This article shows you how to create and use a Silverlight+Blend application.

How to create your own Visual WebGui Silverlight Theme

Eyal Albert, Nov 12, 2008
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In this "How to" we are going to learn how to create your own Visual WebGui Silverlight theme using our default theme.

Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action

Faisal Khan, Oct 14, 2008
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Review of the book Silverlight 2.0 In Action

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Faisal Khan, Aug 29, 2008
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Designing the IPhone user interface in Silverlight with the efficient use of XAML.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Five

Faisal Khan, Jun 13, 2008
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In-Depth analysis of animation with Silverlight 2.0 Beta.

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