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Articles by _ Kunal Chowdhury _ (Articles: 48, Technical Blogs: 107, Tip/Tricks: 7)

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Getting Started with Windows 8 Metro Style Application
Posted: 17 Jan 2012   Updated: 17 Jan 2012   Views: 8,850   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.48
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 0
In this first part (10 mint Video Tutorial), we will learn how to get started with the Project and also we will learn the project structure. Later we will have a small demo to show you how to develop your first “Hello Metro Style Application” using Visual Studio 2011 IDE. Continue to the tutorial to

LightSwitch

How to integrate Usercontrols in LightSwitch Application?
Posted: 13 Nov 2011   Updated: 13 Nov 2011   Views: 7,242   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 0
In this Tutorial, I will show you how to integrate a UserControl in LightSwitch Application.

Silverlight

A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library
Posted: 27 Jun 2010   Updated: 28 Jun 2010   Views: 24,144   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.13
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 20   Downloaded: 354
A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library
File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability
Posted: 6 Jul 2010   Updated: 6 Jul 2010   Views: 43,720   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 36   Popularity: 7.70
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 57   Downloaded: 963
In this article I will guide you creating a File Explorer in Silverlight 4. This step-by-step guide will help yoou understanding the API call and how to access local files, folders and drives using the Silverlight 4 COM APIs.
Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I)
Posted: 27 Jul 2010   Updated: 27 Jul 2010   Views: 18,938   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.85
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 256
In this article, I will guide you to understand the functionality of this control. Also, I will guide you step-by-step to create your first PathListBox control demo application. Here we will create the above two samples where the collection of texts will position them in proper location on the edge
Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–II)
Posted: 29 Jul 2010   Updated: 29 Jul 2010   Views: 14,523   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.95
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 17   Downloaded: 290
In this post, I will demonstrate how to animate the items in a specific direction in your PathListBox control. This will not only guide you for animation in PathListBox but also will help you understanding the StoryBoard creation (if you are very new to Silverlight).
Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls
Posted: 10 Sep 2010   Updated: 12 Sep 2010   Views: 18,154   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.66
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 13   Downloaded: 0
In this article, I am going to describe each shape and the process of adding it in our application (whenever we need to). This article is for the beginners who don’t know much about the shape controls.
A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)
Posted: 11 Jan 2011   Updated: 11 Jan 2011   Views: 28,724   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 24   Popularity: 6.85
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 1,080
A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)
Silverlight 4: Implementing Notification Using New APIs
Posted: 20 Nov 2009   Updated: 20 Nov 2009   Views: 7,720   Rating: 4.33/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.10
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 13   Downloaded: 143
This article demonstrates all the new notification features in Silverlight 4.
Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser Feature
Posted: 6 Nov 2009   Updated: 6 Nov 2009   Views: 9,762   Rating: 4.16/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.24
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 14   Downloaded: 0
Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.
Silverlight 4: Capturing Video from Default Webcam
Posted: 20 Nov 2009   Updated: 20 Nov 2009   Views: 18,824   Rating: 4.30/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.12
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 19   Downloaded: 1,410
Silverlight 4 Beta 1 has been released by Microsoft on 18th November 2009. Among the new features, I will demonstrate one of them “Accessing Default Webcam using Silverlight 4”.
Silverlight 4: How to use the all new right click context menu
Posted: 28 Nov 2009   Updated: 28 Nov 2009   Views: 21,967   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.84
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 13   Downloaded: 722
This article demonstrates the all new right click feature of Silverlight 4.
Silverlight 4: How Can I Create a Customized OOB Window?
Posted: 27 Mar 2010   Updated: 27 Mar 2010   Views: 15,039   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.63
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 158
In this article, I will guide you to create a simple customized OOB Window Application in Silverlight 4 RC. After the end of this tutorial, you will be able to create a Customized OOB Window in Silverlight 4.
How to Install a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Application (XAP) Silently?
Posted: 22 Apr 2010   Updated: 22 Apr 2010   Views: 13,164   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.91
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 0
Silverlight 4 now has support for installing out-of-browser application silently. In this article, I will describe about it.
Silverlight 4: Printing Functionality
Posted: 24 Apr 2010   Updated: 24 Apr 2010   Views: 22,193   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.63
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 13   Downloaded: 1,087
Silverlight 4 now supports printing functionality using the Printing APIs. Using the APIs, you can now print your whole application screen or a portion of the application. Also, you can customize the look while you printing your part/full application. In this post, I will step you guys to the depth.
How To Work With Silverlight BusyIndicator?
Posted: 9 May 2010   Updated: 9 May 2010   Views: 52,385   Rating: 4.32/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 4.32
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 20   Downloaded: 1,529
Silverlight BusyIndicator is not a new thing in Silverlight. It was first added in Silverlight 3 Toolkit in November 2009 release (if I am not wrong). In this post, I will describe about this for those who want to know about it.
Step by Step Guide to Silverlight 4 Command Binding
Posted: 7 May 2010   Updated: 11 May 2010   Views: 36,369   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 4.86
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 35   Downloaded: 316
In this article, I will describe how to implement the command binding to load some information & display it to the UI.
How to Drag and Drop between ListBox using Silverlight 4 Toolkit?
Posted: 13 May 2010   Updated: 15 May 2010   Views: 60,497   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.11
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 741
In this article, I will show you how to create an Drag and Drop ListBox using the Silverlight 4 ToolKit. Here you will learn how to drag and drop between two ListBoxes as well as in the same ListBox.
Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object
Posted: 26 May 2010   Updated: 31 May 2010   Views: 64,229   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.51
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 49   Downloaded: 0
Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with Excel or any other application using the COM API. In this article, I will guide you to understand this feature step-by-step.
Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API
Posted: 16 Jun 2010   Updated: 17 Jun 2010   Views: 31,940   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 26   Popularity: 6.98
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 42   Downloaded: 594
Silverlight 4 has the power to talk with any other application using the COM API. After reading this article, you will be able to pin/unpin any Windows application to your Windows 7 taskbar directly from your Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application.
Text-to-Speech Application using Silverlight 4 COM API
Posted: 2 Jul 2010   Updated: 2 Jul 2010   Views: 18,500   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 6.12
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 607
In this article, I will demonstrate in a step-by-step manner how we can create a Text-to-Speech application using the COM APIs in Silverlight 4. Read it. Learn and Vote for this Article. Feedback and/or Suggestions are most welcome.
How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library?
Posted: 15 Jul 2010   Updated: 15 Jul 2010   Views: 8,303   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 20   Downloaded: 118
In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.
How to Use New Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?
Posted: 19 Jul 2010   Updated: 20 Jul 2010   Views: 18,896   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 6.03
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 154
In this post, I will describe how to integrate the new symbol for the Indian Rupee in Silverlight application.
First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part–I)
Posted: 14 Aug 2010   Updated: 15 Aug 2010   Views: 20,661   Rating: 4.85/5    Votes: 33   Popularity: 7.35
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 65   Downloaded: 170
In this article, I described little about MEF and then described it in depth using a Console Application. Read it and don't forget to vote and share your feedback.
First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part II)
Posted: 24 Aug 2010   Updated: 26 Aug 2010   Views: 18,843   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 26   Popularity: 7.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 174
In this article, I describe MEF using a Silverlight Application. Read it and don't forget to vote and share your feedback.
First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part III)
Posted: 27 Aug 2010   Updated: 27 Aug 2010   Views: 17,780   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 26   Popularity: 7.05
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 30   Downloaded: 124
In this article, I described the need of MEF using a Console Application. Read it and don't forget to vote for it and share your feedback.
Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch
Posted: 19 Oct 2010   Updated: 29 Oct 2010   Views: 47,302   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 35   Popularity: 7.46
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 53   Downloaded: 0
In this article, I will show you how you can start with Visual Studio LightSwitch with an example.
Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind
Posted: 6 Nov 2010   Updated: 6 Nov 2010   Views: 36,418   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.70
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 1,536
In this article, I will show you how to fire Triggers to call some methods present in your ViewModel, instead of writing in the code behind file. Read more to learn about it.
Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend
Posted: 13 Nov 2010   Updated: 13 Nov 2010   Views: 10,510   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.77
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 12   Downloaded: 0
Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend
Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView
Posted: 7 Dec 2010   Updated: 7 Dec 2010   Views: 13,296   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.67
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Do you work with Silverlight DataGrid and want to group your records inside the DataGrid in a proper manner? If so, this article is for you. Here we will learn about data grouping inside a DataGrid.
Filtering Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView
Posted: 7 Dec 2010   Updated: 7 Dec 2010   Views: 12,641   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.57
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 10   Downloaded: 365
In this article, we will see how this PagedCollectionView will help us to filter out the records based on the search keyword. Not much code but the trick done with the same class will do everything for us in some easy way. We will learn about this here in this article.
Paginating Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView
Posted: 2 Jan 2011   Updated: 2 Jan 2011   Views: 14,118   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.68
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 348
Do you have a huge collection of data inside your DataGrid and want to integrate Pagination to show records page by page and don’t know how to do? Then this article will help you to understand the same.
Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend
Posted: 8 Jan 2011   Updated: 8 Jan 2011   Views: 29,678   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 6.13
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 7   Downloaded: 317
In this article, I will guide you through the steps of customization with the help of a sample application. We will need Microsoft Expression Blend for the full customization. Read the complete article to learn about it.
Customizing Group Row Header of Silverlight DataGrid
Posted: 19 Jan 2011   Updated: 20 Jan 2011   Views: 28,827   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.59
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This article will definitely help you. Here, I will show you how to modify the XAML to add different content to create a multi level row group header too.
Steps to Discuss Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4
Posted: 14 Mar 2011   Updated: 14 Mar 2011   Views: 19,721   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.46
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Steps to Discuss Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4
Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta
Posted: 17 Apr 2011   Updated: 17 Apr 2011   Views: 11,901   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.94
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 10   Downloaded: 0
Read the complete article to know more about it and gather knowledge on the debugging feature with a simple code walkthrough. At the end, don't hesitate to leave your feedback. Appreciate your Vote.
Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta
Posted: 20 Apr 2011   Updated: 20 Apr 2011   Views: 8,704   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.61
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Silverlight 5 Beta has been announced with newly added feature called ClickCount. It's a property added to the MouseButtonEventArgs. Using this, you will be able to find out how many multiple clicks happened by the user.
Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataTemplate in Silverlight 5 Beta
Posted: 8 May 2011   Updated: 8 May 2011   Views: 5,037   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.42
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ImplicitDataTemplate is a new feature in Silverlight 5. Using ImplicitDataTemplate, you can declare multiple Data Templates for your control and based on the data type, you can load the proper data template automatically. In this article, we will discuss on the same step by step with a good example.
How to Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications?
Posted: 26 Jul 2011   Updated: 26 Jul 2011   Views: 20,950   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 39   Popularity: 7.89
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 49   Downloaded: 0
Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications
Invoking "Run" Dialog from In-Browser Silverlight 5 Application
Posted: 12 Sep 2011   Updated: 12 Sep 2011   Views: 4,538   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.48
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 7   Downloaded: 149
How to open the "Run Dialog" directly from the Silverlight 5 application
How to Ping Network IP or Hostname using Silverlight?
Posted: 16 Sep 2011   Updated: 16 Sep 2011   Views: 4,259   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 7   Downloaded: 0
Pinging a network IP or Hostname is not available in Silverlight. But you can do this using WCF service. In this post, I am going to implement the same thing for you.

C#

Some Best Practices for C# Application Development (Explained)
Posted: 16 Oct 2010   Updated: 18 Oct 2010   Views: 44,931   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 45   Popularity: 7.85
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 106   Downloaded: 0
In this article, I will discuss about C# Best Coding Practices in detail.

Windows Presentation Foundation

Image Manipulation in Multitouch Development
Posted: 2 Apr 2010   Updated: 3 Apr 2010   Views: 21,513   Rating: 4.72/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.87
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 16   Downloaded: 1,042
In this article, I will describe Image manipulation in Windows 7 multitouch Environment

Programming Tips

A Brief Discussion On Visual Studio 2010 Top Features
Posted: 10 Mar 2010   Updated: 10 Mar 2010   Views: 15,186   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.42
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 27   Downloaded: 0
In this article I will describe about some new features of Visual Studio 2010 which I explored till now. These features are really very useful in terms of productive development. This article is mainly targeted for beginners of Visual Studio 2010 but everybody can get benefit on the same.

Scrapbook

Code Project GIT Meet 2010
Posted: 20 Jan 2011   Updated: 21 Jan 2011   Views: 48,659   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 43   Popularity: 8.15
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It's all about the unofficial CodeProject meetup in Lonavala (a hilly region between Pune and Mumbai), India on 11th December 2010. Supported by GIT members.

Third Party Products and Tools

Working with Masked TextBox of Telerik Silverlight RadControls
Posted: 22 Feb 2011   Updated: 22 Feb 2011   Views: 9,757   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.98
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 0
In this article, I am going to describe you all the APIs of Masked TextBox control and the ways to use it to mask your input. Hope this will help you to understand the control in depth.
Working with BusyIndicator of Telerik Silverlight RadControls
Posted: 16 Feb 2011   Updated: 16 Feb 2011   Views: 18,502   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.29
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 0
In this tutorial, we will discuss on BusyIndicator of Telerik RadControls Library. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use it.
Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik
Posted: 5 Mar 2012   Updated: 5 Mar 2012   Views: 2,723   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.89
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
Here in this article, we will learn how to use Telerik BusyIndicator control in your Windows Phone 7 and let the user know that some operations are going on in the background.

Average blogs rating: 4.87

Document / View

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Aug 2011   Updated: 7 Aug 2011   Views: 9,222   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

Files and Folders

Silverlight 4: How to Drag and Drop External Files? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Nov 2009   Updated: 30 Nov 2009   Views: 11,188   Rating: 3.50/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.05
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 10   Downloaded: 0
In this post, I will describe another feature of Silverlight 4 “Access to external content”. Here I will show how to drag and drop some external images to my sample application.

Printing

How can I develop Printing functionality using Silverlight 4? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Mar 2010   Updated: 22 Mar 2010   Views: 5,757   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
Silverlight 4 now supports printing functionality using the Printing APIs. Using the API’s you can now print your whole application screen or a portion of the application. Also, you can customize the look while you printing your part/full application. In this post I will step you guys to the depth o

Shell and IE programming

History of Internet Explorer [Birth of #IE to #IE9] [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Mar 2011   Updated: 12 Mar 2011   Views: 9,440   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.92
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History of Internet Explorer [Birth of #IE to #IE9]

Applications & Tools

"Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 Feb 2011   Updated: 25 Feb 2011   Views: 476   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
You might know about the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools extension, which has several features on top of the Visual Studio's default IDE features. Recently, they released the new version which has some other benefits over the previous versions.     In this post, I am going to discus
Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools [Technical Blog]
Posted: 26 Feb 2011   Updated: 26 Feb 2011   Views: 4,073   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

Custom Controls

How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight [Technical Blog]
Posted: 5 Apr 2011   Updated: 5 Apr 2011   Views: 6,766   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.77
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I am working on Silverlight since 3 years ago and during the initial period I had a fear of creating Custom controls. I was more confident of creating UserControls, but when I started working on custom controls, I came to know the power of custom controls. Currently, I see the same fear in others...
How to design a Custom Control by editing the Part Template? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 6 Apr 2011   Updated: 6 Apr 2011   Views: 3,996   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight".
How to implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 6 Apr 2011   Updated: 6 Apr 2011   Views: 8,469   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Continuing to our 2nd chapter of the series here on Silverlight Custom Control. In this chapter we will discuss on dynamically setting the Content and other properties to our Custom Control that we implemented earlier. After reading this article, you will be able to create properties and set content
How to access Control Template parts from Code Behind [Technical Blog]
Posted: 9 Apr 2011   Updated: 9 Apr 2011   Views: 5,932   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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In this article, we will learn how to access the template parts from code behind to do various operations in the UI front.
So what's the difference between a Custom Control and User Control? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 9 Apr 2011   Updated: 9 Apr 2011   Views: 11,211   Rating: 4.85/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.23
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That's a good question that came up after the series in my blog.

HTML / CSS

How to execute a Local File using HTML Application? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 28 Sep 2010   Updated: 28 Sep 2010   Views: 21,607   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.46
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 12   Downloaded: 0
How to execute a Local File using HTML Application?

Silverlight

Silverlight 4: How to work with Notification API? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Nov 2009   Updated: 20 Nov 2009   Views: 6,661   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 4   Downloaded: 0
Silverlight Notification API is a new feature introduced in Silverlight 4 Beta 1. If you are developing your application using Silverlight and want to show some notification message like Outlook to the user, then you can use this.
How to create a Simple Arrow in Silverlight? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 26 Jan 2010   Updated: 26 Jan 2010   Views: 9,231   Rating: 4.33/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.03
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
In this post, I will discuss how to create a Silverlight arrow. This will be beneficial for implementing Silverlight presentations where you can add some arrows to point to some blocks. This is simple enough to implement & will be beneficial for beginners.
A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Jul 2010   Updated: 20 Jul 2010   Views: 5,158   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
How to create a Sample Application using Expression Blend
How to use new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Jul 2010   Updated: 20 Jul 2010   Views: 4,852   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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How to use new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?
How to pass values to Silverlight application from ASPX page using InitParameter? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Jul 2010   Updated: 24 Jul 2010   Views: 8,659   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.40
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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.
Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML) [Technical Blog]
Posted: 3 Aug 2010   Updated: 3 Aug 2010   Views: 9,706   Rating: 4.69/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.65
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Some of the best practices you should follow while developing in WPF/Silverlight
Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Sep 2010   Updated: 4 Sep 2010   Views: 6,647   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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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.
Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Sep 2010   Updated: 7 Sep 2010   Views: 6,139   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4
How to detect installed Silverlight version? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 23 Sep 2010   Updated: 23 Sep 2010   Views: 8,662   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Recently, I wanted to detect the Silverlight version for one of my on going R&D. I wanted to detect the version from batch file and depending upon that I wanted to execute one file. Searching over internet I came to know that, HTML Application has some additional power for execution of any local fil
Simplest Way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Oct 2010   Updated: 20 Oct 2010   Views: 7,056   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Simplest Way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window
Choose the way to Create a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Oct 2010   Updated: 22 Oct 2010   Views: 6,015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Choose the way to Create a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Application
How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Nov 2010   Updated: 21 Nov 2010   Views: 8,716   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?
New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Dec 2010   Updated: 7 Dec 2010   Views: 4,753   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.44
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ScottGu gave a Keynote on the future of Silverlight on 2nd December, 2010 where he spoke about the next version of Silverlight, yes, Silverlight 5 Beta. He gave a brief overview of the new & improved features which are coming in Silverlight 5. Read the full post to know more...
What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 May 2011   Updated: 7 May 2011   Views: 6,135   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.74
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AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight
What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 May 2011   Updated: 13 May 2011   Views: 3,726   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.36
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There are many new features announced to support Text advancements in Silverlight 5 Beta. Among them, one is character spacing. This feature adds spacing between characters inside a TextBlock, RichTextBox and other control elements. In this post we will demonstrate the use of this new feature.
Formatting text in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 May 2011   Updated: 13 May 2011   Views: 9,064   Rating: 4.57/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.20
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In my latest two tips we have seen that we can customize the string using Run, Span tags as well as StringFormat in the XAML page. What about if I want to format it for proper DateTime, Currency or Numeric style? As I told you in my last post that, we can achieve the same using the StringFormat...
What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 May 2011   Updated: 17 May 2011   Views: 5,094   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Are you aware of the Line Stacking Strategy of Silverlight TextBlock control? If not, this post will help you to understand it and after that you will be able to use it whenever required.
Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 May 2011   Updated: 17 May 2011   Views: 5,662   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
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Learn about Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 with a simple example
Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 19 May 2011   Updated: 19 May 2011   Views: 4,967   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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In earlier posts, we discussed about Text Advancement in Silverlight 5. In this post, we will discuss another new feature called Binding on Style Setter. This feature is very useful for the XAML designer. If you are a XAML designer, you must...
Silverlight 5 Multiple Window Support [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 May 2011   Updated: 24 May 2011   Views: 6,902   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Multiple Window support is one of the important features in Silverlight 5. Using this you can have additional top level Windows on top of your trusted Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.
Silverlight 5 Window: The things I did not like [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 May 2011   Updated: 25 May 2011   Views: 6,100   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Features I'd like to see in future releases of Silverlight 5.
Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding [Technical Blog]
Posted: 27 May 2011   Updated: 27 May 2011   Views: 6,610   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.36
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Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding
Silverlight 5 Features Local File System Access without using COM API [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Jun 2011   Updated: 8 Jun 2011   Views: 9,551   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Silverlight 5 Features Local File System Access without using COM API
What's New in Silverlight 5? Download PUG Event Slides and Demos [Technical Blog]
Posted: 6 Jun 2011   Updated: 8 Jun 2011   Views: 8,019   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Sharing the "What's New in Silverlight 5?" slides and demos
Why Visual Studio Debugger is not working for my Silverlight Application? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Aug 2011   Updated: 10 Aug 2011   Views: 7,494   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.95
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"Why my Visual Studio debugger is not working for my Silverlight application?" - it's not a new question. People ask this several time in different forums. If you search on net, you may probably find the solution. But, in this post I am just sharing the solution once again for my blog readers and an
How can you detect Browser Information in Silverlight? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Aug 2011   Updated: 12 Aug 2011   Views: 8,290   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Read this post to know how to detect the browser information using the HtmlPage.BrowserInformation property.
RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 Aug 2011   Updated: 17 Aug 2011   Views: 9,409   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Bind the same value twice in a control.
Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Sep 2011   Updated: 2 Sep 2011   Views: 9,215   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC
How to Ping network IP or Hostname in Silverlight Application? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 28 Sep 2011   Updated: 28 Sep 2011   Views: 2,851   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.97
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Pinging a network IP or Hostname is not available in Silverlight. But you can do this using WCF service. In this post I am going to implement the same thing for you. I am using Silverlight 4 here. But this can also be possible in Silverlight 3. Create a Silverlight application with Silverlight host
How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Oct 2009   Updated: 30 Oct 2009   Views: 5,532   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.40
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Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.
Silverlight 4: How to Capture Video from Default Webcam? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 19 Nov 2009   Updated: 21 Nov 2009   Views: 7,473   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In this post I will demonstrate one of the new features: “Accessing Default Webcam using Silverlight 4”.
Silverlight 4: How To Use the All New Right Click Context Menu? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Nov 2009   Updated: 6 Dec 2009   Views: 10,270   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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In this post, I will describe another cool new feature of Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4: Mouse Wheel Support in your Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Nov 2009   Updated: 6 Dec 2009   Views: 6,770   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Silverlight 4 now has support for Mouse Wheel. From now onwards, you can use mouse wheel event to trigger on mouse wheel rotation. Until the release of Silverlight 4 Beta 1 you had to write JavaScript code & a huge lines of code in C#. Now just forget about those lines. Your code will be clean.
Tips & Tricks: How to change the output location of the Silverlight XAP? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Aug 2010   Updated: 10 Aug 2010   Views: 7,901   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Description about changing the location of the output of your Silverlight application
Tips & Tricks: Styling Caret of a Silverlight TextBox Control [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Oct 2010   Updated: 10 Oct 2010   Views: 7,750   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.15
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In this small Tips & Tricks, I will guide you through changing the Style of Caret of a Silverlight TextBox control.
Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Mar 2011   Updated: 24 Mar 2011   Views: 7,184   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application
Tips: Formatting Silverlight TextBlock Control [Technical Blog]
Posted: 9 May 2011   Updated: 9 May 2011   Views: 6,810   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.71
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In general we use multiple TextBlock controls inside a StackPanel to format a single line. In this post I will show you a different way to format a single line. This is very useful if you want to bind any data in the middle of the text string. Also this is useful if you want to format the line with
Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 May 2011   Updated: 10 May 2011   Views: 6,304   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Using StringFormat to concatenate strings in Silverlight XAML.
How to Close the Browser Window from a Silverlight Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 9 Aug 2011   Updated: 9 Aug 2011   Views: 9,576   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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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.

Site & Server Management

Tips & Tricks: Session Management in Silverlight [Technical Blog]
Posted: 16 Sep 2010   Updated: 16 Sep 2010   Views: 9,889   Rating: 4.57/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.84
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Session Management in Silverlight

Windows Phone 7

Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications [Technical Blog]
Posted: 18 Aug 2011   Updated: 18 Aug 2011   Views: 8,361   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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In this post, we will learn about various font sizes defined in the default style library of Windows Phone 7, so you don't have to define them again and can reuse those styles which will be standard sizes all over any Phone 7 Application
WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Jan 2012   Updated: 8 Jan 2012   Views: 7,258   Rating: 2.89/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 2.54
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Pinning an Application to the Start Screen
What's New in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 29 May 2011   Updated: 29 May 2011   Views: 9,732   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.97
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A list of new features in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango)
Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released [Technical Blog]
Posted: 19 Aug 2011   Updated: 19 Aug 2011   Views: 8,927   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Aug 2011   Updated: 24 Aug 2011   Views: 12,591   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer
How to Launch the WP7 Marketplace Hub using the MarketplaceHubTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Mar 2012   Updated: 7 Mar 2012   Views: 2,492   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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The MarketplaceHubTask API to launch the Windows Phone 7 Hub client in your phone device.
How to Save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 28 Mar 2012   Updated: 28 Mar 2012   Views: 1,195   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Windows Phone 7 SDK exposes API to provide user option to save any contact to the Contact list. In your app you may want to include contact saving option. This small post will help you to understand the API and after that, you will be able to use it in any of your applications.
How to Retrieve Contact Information in WP7 using the AddressChooserTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Mar 2012   Updated: 31 Mar 2012   Views: 5,882   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In this small post we will learn how to retrieve saved contacts in WP7 using the Windows Phone 7 SDK APIs.
How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Apr 2012   Updated: 4 Apr 2012   Views: 5,345   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How to programmatically search for a specific contact in WP7?
How to Save Phone Number in WP7 using the SavePhoneNumberTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Apr 2012   Updated: 10 Apr 2012   Views: 1,892   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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This small post will help you to understand the basics about the SavePhoneNumberTask API and details about the implementation stuff with step-by-step details.
How to Call a Number in WP7 using the PhoneCallTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Apr 2012   Updated: 12 Apr 2012   Views: 1,209   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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How to call a number programmatically in Windows Phone.
How to Retrieve a Phone Number from Contacts in WP7 using the PhoneNumberChooserTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 15 Apr 2012   Updated: 15 Apr 2012   Views: 2,185   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How can you programmatically retrieve a phone number from an existing contact list?
How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 Apr 2012   Updated: 17 Apr 2012   Views: 2,051   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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This post will allow you to understand the API of Windows Phone 7 SDK. In this post we will learn about SaveEmailAddressTask class and its API with a simple demo.
How to Send Email in WP7 using the EmailComposeTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 19 Apr 2012   Updated: 19 Apr 2012   Views: 2,709   Rating: 4.10/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.51
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In the last blog post we learnt “How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask?” where we shared code snippet of the internal implementation of the SaveEmailAddressTask along with the code implementation of a demo app.   Today in this blog post we will learn how to compose an ema
How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 5 Mar 2012   Updated: 19 Apr 2012   Views: 1,395   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In your Windows Phone 7 application, you may want to search for some application or music rom WP7 Marketplace. How will you do this? This small tips on Windows Phone 7 marketplace related API will help you to write code in your application.   You can easily achieve this by using the Marketplace La
How to use the PhotoChooserTask to Launch the Media Library? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 19 Mar 2012   Updated: 19 Apr 2012   Views: 1,642   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Sometime in our application, we want to launch the Media Library of the Windows Phone 7 device and also want to provide user the option to view any existing image from that library. So if you want to do this, how will you implement the code?   Windows Phone 7 SDK provides provides API to do this. Us
How to Launch the WP7 Application Details Page using the MarketplaceDetailTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Mar 2012   Updated: 19 Apr 2012   Views: 1,737   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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In last two post, we learnt about How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask? and How to Launch the WP7 Marketplace Hub using the MarketplaceHubTask? Today in this small post, we will learn how to launch the application details page.   If you searched application in Marke
How to Retrieve Email Address in WP7 using the EmailAddressChooserTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Apr 2012   Updated: 21 Apr 2012   Views: 2,672   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How to retrieve an email address from a contact list with a simple example (including the internal implementation of the API).
How to Compose SMS in WP7 using the SmsComposeTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 23 Apr 2012   Updated: 25 Apr 2012   Views: 3,538   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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SmsComposeTask of the WP7 SDK can be used to create SMS from code.
How to Share Status from WP7 using the ShareStatusTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 26 Apr 2012   Updated: 26 Apr 2012   Views: 2,237   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Do you want to develop an application or game which will update your status or game result in some social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and/or Windows Live? Then this post will help you to integrate such task in your app.   Using “ShareStatusTask” of the Windows Phone 7 SDK, y
How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Apr 2012   Updated: 30 Apr 2012   Views: 1,874   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Do you want to create an application or game for your Windows Phone 7 that can share links to various social networking sites of users choice? Then this post will help you to integrate the same in your application.   Continue reading the complete post to know more about the API, the internal imple

Content Management Server

TeamPulse - A Project Management Solution from Telerik [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 Sep 2011   Updated: 17 Sep 2011   Views: 6,918   Rating: 4.56/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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TeamPulse is a project management solution from Telerik based on Agile best practices. You can manage your team project using this Silverlight based tool to actively collaborate between team members, track progress of project.

SQL Reporting Services

Join Hint in SQL - Guest Post by Joydeep Das [Technical Blog]
Posted: 29 Jan 2012   Updated: 29 Jan 2012   Views: 6,278   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Join Hint in SQL - Guest Post by Joydeep Das

C#

How to Implement a DependencyProperty? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Sep 2009   Updated: 8 Sep 2009   Views: 20,905   Rating: 3.82/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.45
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A DependencyProperty is set to enable declarative code to alter the properties of an object which reduces the data requirements by providing a more powerful notification system regarding the change of data in a very specific way.
C# 4.0 New Features – Named and Optional Parameters [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Mar 2010   Updated: 22 Mar 2010   Views: 6,283   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.29
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In this post, I will talk about one of the new features in C# 4.0 – Named and Optional Parameters. Actually these are not a single feature, but two different features.

Windows Presentation Foundation

How can you add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Aug 2009   Updated: 24 Aug 2009   Views: 10,105   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.20
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Add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application
Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I) [Technical Blog]
Posted: 26 Aug 2009   Updated: 26 Aug 2009   Views: 23,006   Rating: 4.11/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.96
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In this post, I will discuss about developing a simple multitouch application using .NET 3.5 SP1.
Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part – II) [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Sep 2009   Updated: 8 Sep 2009   Views: 10,785   Rating: 4.33/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.30
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In my last post Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I), I described about how to handle multitouch image manipulation in Windows 7 which gives a very basic idea on the multitouch development. In this post, I will show you how to manage multitouch events for multiple images separatel
How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View inside Blend and Visual Studio? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Jul 2011   Updated: 10 Jul 2011   Views: 4,692   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend.
Visual Studio 2010 Features – Better Productivity [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Mar 2010   Updated: 22 Mar 2010   Views: 5,138   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
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In this post, I will describe the new features of Visual Studio 2010 which I already explored. I think this will be beneficial for all.

Macros and Add-ins

Default Browser Switcher Extension for Visual Studio 2010 - Improve Productivity [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Jul 2011   Updated: 10 Jul 2011   Views: 5,696   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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How to install and use the Default Browser Switcher Extension for Visual Studio 2010.
Getting Started with NDepend - A Visual Studio AddIn (Part–1) [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Sep 2010   Updated: 2 Sep 2010   Views: 6,446   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.27
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NDepend is a Visual Studio tool to manage .NET code and achieve high quality product. Using NDepend, you can improve your code quality. You can find the unreachable code very easily using this tool. Not only this, it visualizes your code using Graphs & Treemaps.

Programming Tips

Generally How I describe MVVM in Presentations or to my Friends [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Aug 2010   Updated: 30 Aug 2010   Views: 19,546   Rating: 4.82/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.16
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MVVM described in a way which is much easier to understand and easy to recall
Some Best Practices for C# Application Development [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Sep 2010   Updated: 17 Oct 2010   Views: 74,851   Rating: 4.44/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 6.60
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Some C# best coding practices that I learnt over the last few years

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

Tips & Tricks - Working with Event Handler [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Jul 2010   Updated: 20 Jul 2010   Views: 3,800   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Working with Event Handler
Tips & Tricks: How to Sort a Collection by its Property Name? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 11 Aug 2010   Updated: 11 Aug 2010   Views: 5,441   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.23
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Sorting a Collection by its Property Name
"Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 Feb 2011   Updated: 25 Feb 2011   Views: 9,359   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.49
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"Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

Expression

A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Apr 2011   Updated: 4 Apr 2011   Views: 8,001   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.23
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In this post, I will share you some important Shortcut keys of Microsoft Expression Blend 4. If you are working with Expression Blend 4, this will definitely help you to improve your daily productivity work. Keep the list with you always to best use of the Shortcut keys in Blend 4 while designing
Tips: How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Apr 2011   Updated: 13 Apr 2011   Views: 5,012   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend?
Use Expression Blend to change the Layout Type Efficiently [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Jul 2011   Updated: 22 Jul 2011   Views: 3,620   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Many time we need to change the layout type of any panel present inside the page. This is mainly a designers job but sometime developers need to change them on their requirement. In that case, people need to find out the start and end tag of the panel and change them accordingly. This is little bit
How to Convert a Rectangle to a Path Control using Expression Blend? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Aug 2011   Updated: 24 Aug 2011   Views: 7,812   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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This will be a short tip of the day where I will show you the way to convert a Rectangle or a Ellipse control to a Path control. If you are not familiar with Expression Blend and currently working with it to design your UI, this tip will definitely help you in various scenarios.   Let’s start with
How to Crop an object using Expression Blend? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 26 Aug 2011   Updated: 25 Aug 2011   Views: 8,077   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Crop an object using Expression Blend

Hardware & System

Detecting System Information of WP7 Device [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Dec 2011   Updated: 2 Dec 2011   Views: 5,290   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Detecting System Information of WP7 Device
Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it [Technical Blog]
Posted: 28 Sep 2011   Updated: 28 Sep 2011   Views: 2,893   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.29
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In Windows Phone 7, the System Tray is the small bar across the top of the screen in Portrait mode. It displays the Signal strength, Current time and Wi-Fi connection strength.   In this post, we will learn more about Windows Phone 7 System Tray. It is easy to write code to show or hide the tray.

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Jul 2010   Updated: 21 Jul 2010   Views: 6,024   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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In this Tips & Trick, I will show you one nice extension behavior named “Interactive Tooltip”, which will make your development life easier.
“Searchable Add Reference” dialog using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Jul 2010   Updated: 24 Jul 2010   Views: 4,760   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.25
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In my earlier post on “Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool”, I discussed about “Interactive ToolTip” feature which comes with the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool. In this post, I will share information about the all new “Add Reference” dialog which is full
Color Highlighting in Visual Studio XAML page using ReSharper 6 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Mar 2011   Updated: 2 Mar 2011   Views: 5,894   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Color Highlighting in Visual Studio XAML page using ReSharper 6
How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Jul 2011   Updated: 22 Jul 2011   Views: 3,222   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Sometime we need to show a circular loader in WPF and/or Silverlight. We may need it in Windows Phone 7 too. In simple statement, we need to show a circular loader in various XAML applications like Silverlight, WP7 and WPF.   In this article, we will learn how to create a Circular Loader as show
How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Jul 2011   Updated: 22 Jul 2011   Views: 3,039   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Last Wednesday (July 6th 2011) we explored a way to create a Circular loader using XAML without writing any line in the code behind file. Lot of you gave a good feedback and discussed various findings on the same.   I did some more investigation to create a different type of circular loader whi
How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 19 Sep 2011   Updated: 19 Sep 2011   Views: 6,817   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project?
Monthly Summary - September 2011 - 26 Posts You May Want to Read [Technical Blog]
Posted: 1 Oct 2011   Updated: 1 Oct 2011   Views: 2,629   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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During September 2011, we have seen a no. of product releases by Microsoft including Silverlight 5 RC, Expression Blend 5 Preview, Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Final. It was a busy month, no doubt. I also did a no. of posts (26) in my blog
How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 1 Dec 2011   Updated: 1 Dec 2011   Views: 1,275   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project?
Monthly Summary - December 2011 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 5 Jan 2012   Updated: 5 Jan 2012   Views: 5,250   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Here comes the “Monthly Summary” of posts published during December 2011. I have submitted 16 blog posts on mixed juice. In this post, I will summarize them category wise, so that, you can find them very easily.   December was a great month for me. I started a video tutorial series on Windows 8

Third Party Products and Tools

Silverlight: Drag And Drop ListBoxItem to Canvas (using Telerik Control) [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Dec 2009   Updated: 4 Dec 2009   Views: 9,754   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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While surfing through different forums, I noticed that lots of people are actually facing issues while trying to implement the drag and drop feature. The main problem arises while trying to drag from a ListBox to a panel like canvas. In this post, I will go through the steps to demonstrate such a fe
How to Create a New Telerik TeamPulse Project [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 Sep 2011   Updated: 17 Sep 2011   Views: 5,970   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In this post, we will learn how to create a TeamPulse project for your team, so that you can manage your stories, bugs and check the status of each individual story.
No video articles have been posted.

Average tips rating: 4.52

Miscellaneous

Tips and Tricks: Customizing Visual Studio 2010 Start Page [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 11 Feb 2010   Updated: 11 Feb 2010   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Silverlight

Text Trimming in Silverlight 4 [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 30 Jun 2010   Updated: 30 Jun 2010   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Here I will show you how you can use the Text Trimming functionality in Silverlight 4.
Tips & Tricks: How to get the Screen Resolution in Silverlight? [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 29 Aug 2010   Updated: 29 Aug 2010   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.65
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The code describes how to get the Client's Screen Resolution in Silverlight.

Programming Tips

Tips & Tricks: Incremental Search in Visual Studio 2010 [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 7 May 2010   Updated: 7 May 2010   Rating: 4.82/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.36
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You all know that Visual Studio 2010 is now available in its RTM version. There are lots of features available in Visual Studio 2010. In this tip, I will talk about the incremental search functionality available inside it, which is very useful in day to day life of coding.So, what is the...
Tips & Tricks: Faster Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 7 May 2010   Updated: 7 May 2010   Rating: 3.67/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.75
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Before discussing about this feature with you, let me ask you a question “Are you using TDD i.e. Test Driven Development?”. If so, you will find this feature not only useful but very much attractive. So, what is that? Wait, lets ask yourself another question “How to write code while doing Test...
Tips & Tricks: Visual Studio 2010 Debugging using Breakpoints [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 21 May 2010   Updated: 21 May 2010   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Here I will describe you how to debug using VS2010
Tips & Tricks - Working with Event Handler [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 3 Jun 2010   Updated: 3 Jun 2010   Rating: 3.33/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.59
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Suppose two thread subscribed to the same OperationComplete handler and one unsubscribed the event. In such scenario the OperationComplete event will become null and for the next thread due to the event is null it will not execute. This happens mainly in multithreaded applications but you can't guar

Usability

Customizing Visual Studio 2010 Start Page [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 6 May 2010   Updated: 6 May 2010   Rating: 4.64/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.21
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Here is the alternate URL of the Tips (from where it has been copied fully): Tips and Tricks: Customizing Visual Studio 2010 Start Page[^]

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Kunal Chowdhury is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in Silverlight Technology, a Codeproject MVP & Mentor, DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger), Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Software Engineer by profession.
 
He is currently working as a Software Engineer II in an MNC located at Pune, India. He has a very good skill over XAML, C#, Silverlight and WPF. He has a good working experience in Windows 7 application (including Multi-touch) development too.
 
He posts his findings in his technical blog. He also writes for SilverlightShow and Codeproject portal. Many of his articles were highlighted as "Article of the Day" in Microsoft sites.
 
He also has another website called Silverlight-Zone.com where he posts article links on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and XNA accumulated from various web sites to help the community grow on specified technologies.
 
You can reach him in his Blog : http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com
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