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by Max Paulousky
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.
by Modesty Zhang
Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.
by Ernesto Herrera
Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.
by Shuqian Ying
The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.

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27 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.
6 Oct 2008 by Modesty Zhang
Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.
28 Jul 2010 by Ernesto Herrera
Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.
31 Jul 2012 by Shuqian Ying
The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.
29 Mar 2010 by Adrabi Abderrahim
Pivot 1.4, Spring and Hibernate is my RPG Game
9 Dec 2009 by itzik.spitzen
Visual WebGui is reshaping web development, the way VB6 did with WOW - Windows Over Web revolution. Visual WebGui enables VB-like drag & drop, object oriented, WYSIWYG development methodologies but adds extension and customization capabilities.
9 Nov 2010 by Sergei Dumnov
It explains how to display business intelligence dimension table using Silverlight TreeView
15 Feb 2011 by Addison-Wesley
This chapter gives you a better understanding of what Flex is, both as a technology and as a development environment (Flash Builder).
19 May 2008 by Stephanie Rodriguez
The open-source Spring Framework has become a popular application framework for building enterprise Java apps. This chapter explores the newest features in Spring AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming), including @AspectJ-style annotations, the AspectJ pointcut language, Spring AOP XML tags and more.
16 Mar 2010 by Evan Hutnick
This whitepaper explains how through smart use of UI and Data virtualization, content recycling, XAML optimizations and more, RadControls for Silverlight deliver first-class performance.
31 Aug 2010 by CaseyMuse
This article will provide a quick tour of the ImageGear for Silverlight toolkit while developing a multi-page image viewer, running completely on the client, via managed code. Once the viewer is built, it will be ready for deployment to the Windows Azure Cloud via an Azure Cloud Service project.
10 Dec 2010 by Beavis Killer
This article demonstrates how to generate plain old class objects (POCO) from the Entity Framework v4 (EF4) and use them through RIA Services in SilverLight version 4.
4 Jan 2011 by Jason Beres
Infragistics delivers better insight into complex business data with their data visualization controls, data visualization user experience and the Infragistics Motion Framework that lets you quickly build rich, interactive data visualizations to give users richer insight with an engaging experience.
18 Feb 2011 by Marcio_Coelho
The creation of a user control that is built with watermark, tooltip and that can be reused in many areas of your app
25 Apr 2011 by Visual WebGui
Explore the implementation and integration of HTML5 in the powerful Visual WebGui .NET framework as a custom control using jQuery
16 Jul 2010 by defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight Application that implements Create, Read, Update, and Delete using web services
27 Apr 2010 by Katka Vaughan
Search and play YouTube videos inside a Silverlight 4.0 application! Learn about RIA Services, right-click event handling, themes, and styles.
26 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications
8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this second part, we will go through various topics on how MVVM Light Toolkit is used in our sample application.
5 Feb 2018 by Stas Wolski
This article describes how to implement a meeting room booking system in an ASP.NET MVC project with dhtmlxScheduler.
9 Jan 2010 by Sacha Barber
A demo app that shows how to upload a file using Silverlight/HttpHandler/MVVM, and includes Silverlight MVVM Library and Helpers.
25 Feb 2010 by Sacha Barber
An introduction to ADO.NET Data Services / RIA Services.
3 Nov 2014 by Geert van Horrik
This article tries to explain why you should use Catel as the (or one of the) frameworks when developing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications.
11 Mar 2010 by Raul Mainardi Neto
Discovering the features of Silverlight 4
8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.
5 Feb 2009 by Basab Dattaray, Modesty Zhang
This article presents a flexible and practical reusable control that is essential to modular Silverlight applications. It helps to improve a large Silverlight application's composite structure and run time performance.
8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this part, we will discuss how custom authentication, reset password, and user maintenance are implemented in the sample application.
12 Jun 2010 by keesari_anjaiah
In this article, you will learn the basics of the Silverlight technology.
25 Sep 2010 by defwebserver
An example of Silverlight View Model communication between Master and Child View Models
11 Jul 2009 by Modesty Zhang
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).
11 Jan 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)
8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 1 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.
16 Nov 2009 by V.GNANASEKARAN
An article on how we can expose our data efficiently with minimal effort by leveraging Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services.
19 Nov 2010 by Modesty Zhang
Session Management, Navigation, Security and Data Sharing aspects of SOHA - Service Oriented HTML Application
1 Jun 2010 by santosh poojari
Quick ASP.NET development using WCF RIA services
7 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 1 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.
13 Feb 2011 by Brij
This article discusses another official plugin of jQuery that is Globalization
8 Aug 2010 by defwebserver
The Silverlight DataGrid using inline editing, paging, sorting, and button events, using the View Model.
26 Apr 2009 by Modesty Zhang
Presents the design and interface considerations together with implementation details for NumberTumbler custom control in Silverlight 3 Beta
30 Aug 2010 by defwebserver
This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal
24 Oct 2010 by Modesty Zhang
Presents a web app programming model that promotes web standards, achieves high scalability by eliminating classic web server pages, and also enables rich interactivities without browser plug-ins.
17 Apr 2009 by El Bob-O
This article describes my experiences in trying to learn the JavaFX programming language by writing a Chess program.
10 Sep 2010 by Brij
This article discusses about one of the new features "Client ID generation" of ASP.NET 4.0
10 Feb 2008 by Michael Sync
The simplest way to do CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight using ADO.NET Data Service (Astoria).
25 Oct 2011 by defwebserver
An advanced LightSwitch tutorial covering PreProcess Queries, Email, PopUps, WCF RIA Services, and HTML pages
21 May 2010 by Dr. Song Li
This article gives a practical quick-start tutorial on MVVM in WPF for application developers.
20 Oct 2008 by Modesty Zhang
Some code changes and improvements that make the Silverlight Cairngorm thread-safe
7 Apr 2011 by Joseph Magly
This article describes how to simplify web application development using Flex, Flash Builder, WebORB, and NHibernate, an open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework.
28 Apr 2009 by Eylon Yogev.
How can you tell if a computer has more than one CPU without using any special permissions.
13 Sep 2010 by Sandrino Di Mattia
A guide to creating secure Silverlight + WCF RIA Services applications for the enterprise! This is done using Application Request Routing (turning IIS in a reverse proxy).
3 Mar 2010 by Jevgenij Pankov
A Silverlight application using the WCF RIA Services Class Library. Demonstrates how to implement a custom Authorization Service, utilize localized resources, and add unit tests for DAL.
17 Feb 2010 by keesari_anjaiah
The definition of Silverlight, the purpose of the Silverlight technology, and the different versions released so far. You will also read about the development tools required to work with Silverlight.
6 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen
This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.
18 Sep 2010 by Yevhen Bobrov
Consuming WCF Services in Silverlight without static code generation of the service proxy.
18 Apr 2012 by Shenwei Liu
Create and configure WCF RIA Services class library for Silverlight app
27 Jul 2010 by Gil Fink
The article describes an implementation of an ASP.NET validator that uses the new System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly that came in .NET 3.5 SP1.
21 Dec 2009 by Modesty Zhang
Silverlight Cairngorm update for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010.
12 Apr 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 4 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.
4 Nov 2010 by Nicolas Dorier
You'll be able to easily and mechanically create your own Fluent library.
7 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight business applications. It describes breaking down applications into tiers, implementing a data access in N-tier applications, implementing a custom authentication, adding a support of https to Ria Services applications.
7 Jun 2010 by Stephan Johnson
This article introduces The Genesis Smart Client Framework v2.0 (Project Ruby). It focusses on the user interface component, dubbed the User Experience Platform (UXP), developed using PRISM for WPF and Silverlight.
8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen
Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.
2 Jul 2007 by Jeff Karlson
This article describes how to create a very simple project using GOA WinForms for Flash
6 Oct 2010 by Bruno Altinet
How to set up a basic application using Silverlight, RIA and NHibernate with top to bottom validation, all nice and fluent:)
6 Jan 2010 by Dr. Song Li
This article introduces a method to configure Silverlight 3 applications using the Web.config file from ASP.NET.
22 May 2011 by Mohammad Elsheimy
In this article, we’ll see a brief introduction to Microsoft Silverlight, see how it fits with other technologies today, and watch it in action. Get ready!
16 Jun 2011 by Kevin Ruse
10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex
13 May 2010 by Asher Barak
Implementing the MVVM Design Pattern with Silvelight - RIA Services.
18 Feb 2010 by Somnath Mondal
The benefit of putting validation in the model layer is that, the validation rules will be enforced everywhere in the application that accesses the database. It also means that we can change the validation rule in one place and every UI element inside our app will automatically get updated.
19 May 2011 by David_Tucker
An article that compares Flex/Flash, Silverlight, HTML5/CSS3, jQuery/JavaScript for enterprise RIA development
20 Oct 2008 by Anil Kumar T R
An enhanced ViewStack component for Silverlight 2 with transitions and cache management.
10 Dec 2010 by Beavis Killer
This article demonstrates how to write a domain service factory to host plain old class object (POCO) entities and use them through RIA Services in Silverlight version 4.
4 May 2011 by Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya
aCloud Web Operation System running on the cloud
30 Jun 2008 by Maciej Gren
A small article about how to create a simple password text box in Silverlight 2 Beta 2
30 Sep 2008 by priti_sisodia
Describes the usage custom font in Silverlight
12 May 2011 by Murtaza Abdeali
Canvas is one of the principal new elements of HTML5, the next great Web markup language that lets you build Rich Internet Application user interfaces. In this short article, I’ll demonstrate how to use the HTML5 canvas to draw the new Infragistics logo.
6 Apr 2008 by Nandini S Anatharam
25 Oct 2008 by diego jose
How to create Custom Control and Drag and Drop Functionality
4 Feb 2011 by Visual WebGui
VWG successfully reproduces the Web Forms development experience by offering pure Window Forms development paradigm for Web due to its unique application code virtualization technology which allows to virtualize over Web server rather than OS.