Silverlight

.NET3.5

Silverlight 4 Video Player

8 May 2011

defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

Build Your Own DataGrid for Silverlight: Step 1

23 Apr 2009

Jeff Karlson

Learn how to build the body part of your DataGrid using Silverlight and the GOA Toolkit. Implement Virtual Mode, work with hierarchical data, and build cells and cells navigation.

Export Silverlight DataGrid to Excel XML/CSV

1 Dec 2009

raelango

This article explains how to export the contents of a DataGrid to Excel/CSV.

ListBox Styling (Part 2 - ControlTemplate) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

26 Apr 2010

Alan Beasley

How to Style the Control Template of a ListBox in a small MVVM application

XAML

Design

Windows Phone Crosswords

3 Jul 2012

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to create a Windows Phone crosswords game taking advantage of online internet resources

Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object

31 May 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009

Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Silverlight ColorPicker

8 Jan 2011

Xiaojie Liu

A Silverlight color picker (looks like ComboBox), more like the one used within VS 2010 property browser for editing color-type

Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop File Manager

6 May 2010

defwebserver

A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads

ySurf : A Yahoo! Messenger clone built in Silverlight

28 Mar 2010

Vinit Yadav

A Yahoo! messenger clone application built with Silverlight and its Duplex Polling WCF service. Explains how to deal with the Yahoo! packet format named YMSG.

Apex Part 1: Create Your First MVVM Application

21 May 2012

Dave Kerr

Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!

Silverlight Windows User Identity Name

15 Dec 2009

Webplethora

How to get the Windows user identity name in Silverlight.

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

13 Nov 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

Silverlight 3: Slideshow

6 Oct 2009

CS Rocks

This is a slideshow that works in a Silverlight 3 UserControl.

Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions

23 May 2010

defwebserver

A simple Silverlight application that uses RX Extensions to communicate with an oData service.

Silverlight Pronunciation Test

29 Apr 2012

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

How to create a pronunciation test tool using Silverlight and Python

Silverlight Cairngorm - Port Cairngorm to .NET

6 Oct 2008

Modesty Zhang

Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.

Populating a Silverlight DataGrid with Data from MDB

24 Nov 2009

raelango

This is a sample project to access Microsoft Access MDB data in Silverlight via OLEDB and dynamically populate a DataGrid.

Synchronous WCF Service Calls with Silverlight

16 Mar 2010

Valentin Billotte

How to make TRUE sync call in Silverlight

WCF

Changing the background color for one or more columns in a Silverlight DataGrid

2 Jan 2010

Paul B.

Column.BackgroundColor = "Yellow"? I wish.

Generic WPF-Silverlight implementation for IValueConverter

18 Jun 2012

Clifford Nelson

A generic implementation for IValueConverter.

WPF

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

17 Sep 2014

Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

Wrapper Pattern for Silverlight and WPF

14 Feb 2010

Nicolas Dorier

A design pattern to easily bind or animate properties that do not exist on an element, and which works in both Silverlight and WPF

Applying Data Templates Dynamically by Type in WP7

19 Oct 2010

Florin Badea

This article presents a way to apply data templates dynamically by type in the Windows Phone 7 platform

Silverlight Binary Serialization using Protobuf-net

29 Apr 2010

Sangsu Park 99

How to serialize a pure .NET object class to a fast binary data

Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

28 Jul 2010

Ernesto Herrera

Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.

Static and Type markup extensions for Silverlight 5 and WPF

22 May 2012

Henrik Jonsson

An extended Static markup extension implementation for Silverlight 5 and WPF supporting invoking static methods with arguments, and a Silverlight Type markup extension implementation.

Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012

Harald Heide Gundersen

Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera

Draggable Popup Window in Silverlight 3

19 Nov 2009

dsmolen

Allows a user to drag a popup to any location in the Silverlight window.

Integrate dynamic HTML pages in your Silverlight app

12 Apr 2013

NightWizzard

...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

10 Nov 2014

Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

Declarative Dependency Property Definition with T4 + DTE

18 Aug 2009

Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes a technique for specifying WPF / Silverlight Dependency Properties declaratively via attributes.

WPF

Silverlight 4: How to use the all new right click context menu

28 Nov 2009

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This article demonstrates the all new right click feature of Silverlight 4.

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions

29 May 2010

defwebserver

An example of Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions.

WPF/Silverlight Binding Using Flags Class

8 Jul 2011

Clifford Nelson

A special class is needed to support binding a set of flags to a View.

Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight

3 Feb 2012

Dr. Sai

Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight

C#3.0

RUXX

1 Sep 2013

Saif Al Falah

A very novel, fun and fast paced game optimized for AIO!

XML

Implementing Two-way Binding of a Numeric Value to a String (such as TextBox.Text)

26 Apr 2010

George Henry 1954

Presents a class that facilitates high-usability binding of an ordinary TextBox to a numeric property

Silverlight File Manager

8 Jan 2012

Alеksey Nemiro

The Silverlight File Manager on the ListBox control based universal server handler may be working on the ASP .NET WebForms and MVC projects. All requests are sent asynchronously via helper class.

web

Making WCF Service reference configurable from web.config in Silverlight application

22 Apr 2012

ManojKumar19

How to make WCF service reference configurabe for Silverlight project(makes easy for deploying on severs like Dev, QA, UAT etc.)

Connecting MySQL From SilverLight With Web Services

8 Aug 2013

adriancs

Silverlight access to MySQL using Web Services.

MySQL

webservice

My Silverlight Barcode Software

18 May 2009

barcodesoftware

Barcode software application in Silverlight.

Summarizing Client Side Asynchronous Invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight

18 Apr 2010

Tamas Koszoru

Summarizing client side asynchronous invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight. Introducing ServiceClient class.

Expression Blend Number Guesser using DataStore

31 May 2010

defwebserver

Creating a Number Guesser in Expression Blend with no code using DataStore

MVVM Home Grown Version

30 Sep 2010

David Furshpan

A simple code that shows how to create, bind and inject View and ViewModel

WPWidgetLibrary HTML5 Widget for Windows Phone 7 Mango

14 Nov 2011

Bahrudin Hrnjica

Imlementation of HTML5 Widget apps in offline mode on Windows Phone 7 Mango.

Migrate from Basic to MVVM and MEF Composable Patterns for a Silverlight Application - Part 3

3 May 2012

Shenwei Liu

The article series shows how to upgrade a Silverlight application having basic patterns to the MVVM and MEF composable patterns with easy approaches and detailed coding explanations.

Lync Addin – Send SMS

21 May 2015

Shai Raiten

Lync Add in Development, How to add custom context menu and CWE application using single code base.

Scrollable Friction Canvas For Silverlight

9 Apr 2009

Sacha Barber

Scrollable friction Canvas for Silverlight

ExImage -- A Silverlight control very similar to the Image control that supports image tiling

24 Jan 2010

cokkiy

ExImage is a Silverlight control very similar to the built-in Image control, except it supports three more stretch modes: RepeatX, RepeatY, and RepeatXY, which means images can be tiled horizontally, vertically, or both.

Automatic Generation of Settings Page

6 Sep 2011

EmitsorGrp

Automatically generate a Windows Phone 7 settings page.

Silverlight Multi-Binding

17 Nov 2011

ntg123

Performing multi-binding in Silverlight.

C#4.0

Silverlight 5 and NSpeex: Capture audio from capture source, encode, save to file, and decode to play

WCF in a stateful application (WPF/Silverlight)

9 Apr 2013

David J Rundle

Handling the Faulted state and Closure of a WCF service when being used in a stateful application.

10 Jan 2013

Amir Eshaq

This article uses NSpeex as a codec to encode/decode audio from a capture source (e.g., computer microphone) within Silverlight.

Silverlight ViewModel Unit Testing (RIA Services)

16 Oct 2013

Anton Kleshchev

This article describes how to write Unit Tests for Silverlight ViewModels with a mocked DomainContext.

C#3.0

Silverlight Application with Management Entity Framework and WCF Service

20 Dec 2014

john_1726

A guide to constructing an application using Expression Blend and Silverlight for the front-end which obtains data from a WCF service and SQL Server back-end

How to Ping Network IP or Hostname using Silverlight?

16 Sep 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1

21 Sep 2010

Arik Poznanski

Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1

WPF

Web RSS Builder Part 1: Building Generic XML Data Source for ASP.NET and Silverlight

5 Nov 2010

SofianH

A description of the open source Web RSS Builder

Destination Flicker Board Custom Control

8 Nov 2010

RobCroll

Creating a custom control when inheriting ItemsControl doesn't fit the requirement

Using Silverlight TreeView to Display BI Dimension

9 Nov 2010

Sergei Dumnov

It explains how to display business intelligence dimension table using Silverlight TreeView

Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution

1 Apr 2011

Arik Poznanski

Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution

Play AVI files in Silverlight 5 using MediaElement and MediaStreamSource - P/Invoke

14 Sep 2011

Amir Eshaq

This code demostrates how to use Silverlight 5 with OOB+elevated trust to play a local video (.avi). Uses P/Invoke support for native code

Invoking People Hub in Windows Phone 7 Emulator

26 Nov 2011

Mohib Sheth

Invoking People Hub in Windows Phone 7 Emulator

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development

28 Nov 2011

Member 7656529

A review of the book Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development.

Taming Silverlight Async Calls

5 Dec 2011

Gary Bilkus

A helper class to simplify and enhance Silverlight async calls

Silverlight web comic

7 Feb 2012

apis3445

Its a silverlight page to create a simple comic with photos and text-ballons

Carousel Effect in Silverlight

16 Feb 2012

Dr. Sai

This article demonstrates how to code the Carousel animation effect in Silverlight

How to Communicate between Silverlight Client and Java Application

27 Feb 2012

Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing the communication between Silverlight client and Java application.

Java

TreeView vs Accordion vs DataGrid.

5 Jul 2012

Andrzej Skutnik

Accordion versus TreeView and the DataGrid in the navigation data in Silverlight.

C#4.0

XAML

Programmatically Setting a Silverlight Chart ControlTemplate

15 Jul 2012

Douglas Smallish

Demonstrates how to code a Silverlight Chart ControlTemplate Programmatically.

Programmatic type-safe bindings

18 Sep 2012

Jens Theisen

Using "{Binding X.Y.Z}" in a type-safe way in your code.

Use existing sqlite database in Windows phone 8.1

20 Mar 2016

Sumit Samediya

In this article we will learn how to use existing sqlite database in WP 8.1 apps.

How to add Maps and GIS into Silverlight Applications

17 Jul 2009

dmart23

ESRI has developed an API to allow you to embed maps and add GIS functionality using online services from ESRI’S ArcGIS Online and Bing Maps for Enterprise. This article will demonstrate how to use ESRI’s ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF.

AttachedPropertyEvent Pattern: Part 2

13 Jul 2009

Jan-Erik Romoeren, Björn Asplund

Pattern for publishing an event by using an attached property and IEventAggregator. This time it's generic.

Passing dates in XAML

20 Oct 2009

Wayne Delport

An article demonstrating how to pass date values in XAML as property values.

Silverlight Energy Savings Calculator

24 Nov 2009

BBalmer

MVVM patterned calculator that demonstrates Charting Toolkit styling.

Retrieving Assembly Attributes

18 Dec 2009

Christian Rodemeyer

Helper class for easy retrieving of assembly attributes.

UIExtensionSites for PRISM

4 Aug 2010

Xavier Spileers

Classes to add a UIExtensionSites-like mechanism to PRISM.

MVVM (Part 2) - Commanding

1 Oct 2010

David Furshpan

How to create Commands infrastructure in Silverlight

Web RSS Builder Part 2: The ASP.NET Application

5 Nov 2010

SofianH

A description of the open source Web RSS Builder

Web RSS Builder Part 3: The Silverlight Application

5 Nov 2010

SofianH

A description of the open source Web RSS Builder

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #38

16 Nov 2010

mrjvdveen

A problem most of us will encounter while building a Line Of Business application in Silverlight - it involves UI paradigms combined with the asynchronous communication model

Forcing validation for required fields in Silverlight

19 Aug 2011

User 468701

Force validation, even if the user doesn't enter anything, so that fields that are required show an appropriate message.

Review: Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5

23 May 2012

Jason Gleim

A review of Mastering LOB Development for SL 5 from Packt Publishing

CategorySlider - A discrete slider with objects (categories) insted of values

17 May 2013

Jorge J. Martins

Using a Slider to select an item from a list of objects (string, numeric, or image) as a discrete value or category.

Building XNA flexible animation class

20 Aug 2014

valentasm

Silverlight and XNA animation class with automatic animation and flexible sprites loading.

XNA

Getting WCF to Work with Azure

1 Apr 2009

Paul S. Chapman

Avoiding the WCF issue in the Azure CTP

HyperlinkButton Gotcha

14 Apr 2010

Derek Lakin

HyperlinkButton Gotcha

Windows Azure, TDS, WCF, Silverlight and a Few Problems on the Way - Part II – Database Access Layer

14 May 2009

Paul S. Chapman

Part II of a multiple part article where I build a project to show News Headlines from a number of RSS feeds as a vertical scrolling region

Azure

WCF

Testing Silverlight 2 Code with Silverlight 3 and Moving to Silverlight 3

21 Oct 2009

mrjvdveen

This article describes my experience with upgrading to Silverlight 3 and the steps taken to ensure our code would work.

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #4

18 Aug 2009

mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

MOSS for Developers - Part 5: Silverlight and Web Parts for Developers

18 Aug 2009

dougturn

Provides an overview of Sharepoint with Silverlight and Web Parts from the perspective of a developer. This content is part 5 of the MOSS content from www.myrampup.com.

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #20

1 Sep 2009

mrjvdveen

Some of the less technical (a.k.a functional) stuff around code generation, especially when using XAML, it being in either Silverlight or WPF

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application: Part #21

8 Sep 2009

mrjvdveen

Why and how we chose Silverlight and how we (or at least I) learned to use the Silverlight technology

chromeOS

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #24

7 Oct 2009

mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

All-Topics

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #25

8 Oct 2009

mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #25

XML

All-Topics

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #26

26 Oct 2009

mrjvdveen

A more generic solution to databind to some primitive type variables like a bool or a string

Adventures while Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #29

19 Nov 2009

mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #34

18 Nov 2010

mrjvdveen

Analyzing performance in a Silverlight Line Of Business application, including multiple service layers

Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #35

9 Aug 2010

mrjvdveen

Something I ran into while doing rework on our framework - it involves the order in which code gets executed when using events and such

Simplified UI Printing in Silverlight

1 Dec 2010

Alishah Novin

A simplified Extension Method which allows you to print any element with standard options such as Landscape printing, Shrink to Fit, Page Centering, and Print Margins.

POCO Entities Through RIA Services

10 Dec 2010

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.

Creating and Using/Reusing User Controls in Silverlight

18 Feb 2011

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

RIA

Adventures while Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #41

21 Feb 2011

mrjvdveen

In this post, we dive into this tiny change that caused a weird bug in the WCF communication between our Silverlight client and one of our web services.

Data Binding in Silverlight with RIA and Entity Framework – Part 3 (Validating Input Data)

12 Apr 2011

Manas_Patnaik

Data binding in Silverlight with RIA and Entity Framework - validating input data

Data Binding in Silverlight with RIA and EntityFramework – Part 1 (Displaying Data)

12 Apr 2011

Manas_Patnaik

Data Binding in Silverlight with RIA and EntityFramework – Part 1 (Displaying Data)

Consume Console Host WCF Service with Windows Phone 7

18 Apr 2011

D Y Chan

Consume WCF service with Windows Phone 7

Simulating MaxLines Property in a Silverlight TextBox

30 Aug 2011

Ross Brigoli

How to simulate the MaxLines property in a Silverlight TextBox.

C#4.0

A Pong in Silverlight

31 Aug 2011

pierre poliakoff

A tutorial on how to write a Silverlight game based on the classical Pong game.

Silverlight3

game

Moving from Silverlight to MVC3

20 Sep 2011

mrjvdveen

Why we felt the need to abandon our Silverlight development in favor of MVC3

Creating a Subtitle/Closed Captions Plugin for SMF (Silverlight Media Framework)

20 Sep 2011

Julien Villers

This will walk you through the creation of a custom IMarkerProvider implementation, allowing to display SAMI subtitles in SMF (Silverlight Media Framework).

Lists Switch Animation_MVVM Meets Async-Ctp

24 Nov 2011

ntg123

Visual representation for a logical items-switching between two lists

Converting PHP arrays to a C# Dictionary

21 Dec 2011

taralex

PHP array to C# Dictionary conversion.

PHP

Metro Style ListBox in Silverlight

29 Apr 2013

Hiren Khirsaria

create Metro theme listbox using style and templates

Customer Order Mapping

29 Apr 2013

rodney128

A windows Azure development to showcase online geocoding and mapping.

Silverlight

11 Oct 2013

ASP.NET Community

"Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive

Silverlight in Enterprise Application

11 Oct 2013

ASP.NET Community

Silverlight: Silverlight is a RIA (Rich Internet Application) technology by Microsoft is a well competitor to Flash (who is a

Implementing a Silverlight Based 'Vertical' Tickertape

1 Oct 2015

Paul S. Chapman

Implementing a Silverlight based 'vertical' tickertape

Achieve Unbeatable Performance with RadControls for Silverlight! Working with 50 million cells has never been faster

.NET Code or SQL – Where’s the Performance Problem?

18 Oct 2011

Redgate Software

Identifying an application’s performance bottlenecks is all about understanding how the application is spending its time. Only with the most complete understanding of how an application is operating is it possible to understand what it is doing wrong, as this article describes.

How to Read Barcodes from Images using LEADTOOLS

7 Jan 2013

LEADTOOLS Support

In this article, we will create a simple application that loads an image and reads its barcodes. Try it out for yourself by downloading a fully functional evaluation SDK from the links provided below the tutorial.

Merging DLLs into Your Main Assembly for Easier Distribution

2 Apr 2012

Redgate Software

Distributing applications with DLL dependencies can be problematic. Here we explain how to make distribution easier by combining these dependencies into the main assembly.

Re use Windows Accounts for Applications Access Control with Visual Guard .Net

2 Apr 2009

Nadége Baubant

See how to control access to .NET applications reusing Windows accounts for authentication. Integrate with Active Directory and grant roles and permissions to Windows accounts. Define permissions without adding code thanks to .NET reflection mechanism.

Building a Multi-Page Image Viewer with ImageGear for Silverlight

1 May 2009

Accusoft, CaseyMuse

This article provides a quick tour of the ImageGear for Silverlight toolkit from Accusoft Pegasus, while developing a multi-page image viewer that runs completely on the client via managed code.

Rich Navigation for Microsoft Silverlight 3 Applications

2 Jul 2009

Murtaza Abdeali

Easily add advanced navigation to Line of Business apps with UI controls designed especially for the new navigation features in Microsoft Silverlight 3.

Performance and the User Experience with xamWebGrid™ for Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3

6 Oct 2009

J. Ambrose Little

Glimpse inside the UI virtualization architecture of Infragistics xamWebGrid to see how its industry-best blazing speed was achieved with proven practices for measuring performance and UI virtualization on Microsoft Silverlight 3.

A Pivot Grid for Data Warehousing on Microsoft Silverlight™ 3

1 Dec 2009

J. Ambrose Little

When your boss asks you to create applications transforming your data warehouse into business intelligence, you need the right set of Silverlight 3 tools to make this transformation quickly and easily. Here is a pivot grid control that really gets the job done.

How to Create Rich User Experiences with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

1 Feb 2010

Murtaza Abdeali

Infragistics leverages Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) for the .NET Framework, to deliver powerful user interface tools that allow you to create rich user experiences that will delight your users with the WOW-factor!

Collaborate, Communicate and Cultivate UX Patterns with Quince Pro

26 Feb 2010

J. Ambrose Little

Designers used to write style guides in unwieldy documents or Wikis to ensure a consistent look, but such style guides soon went stale and obsolete. Enter Quince Pro™ by Infragistics, a private, secure and organized way to collaborate, communicate and cultivate private UX design libraries.

How to Comply with Security Standards for Health Care Applications

11 Jun 2013

Novalys

This article demonstrates how Visual Guard has been able to help meet the strict criteria of health regulations in the United States. It will look at why two major health care actors have integrated Visual Guard into their applications.

16 Mar 2010

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.

Breaking Out Of The Box with Visual Studio 2010 and NetAdvantage for .NET

27 Apr 2010

J. Ambrose Little

Survey the many productivity enhancing features Microsoft added to Visual Studio 2010 and see how adding Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET 2010 Volume 1 to your IDE will help you accelerate your application development and break out of the limitations of the Toolbox.

Rich Data Analytics in Silverlight 4 and WPF 4

31 May 2010

J. Ambrose Little

With Silverlight and WPF data visualization controls you can create compelling, high-end Business Intelligence solutions. In their latest WPF 4 and Silverlight 4 releases out later this month, Infragistics makes your applications shine. A wealth of samples serve to showcase their rich analytics.

Beyond the Boundaries of Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional with Telerik WebUI Test Studio

12 Jul 2010

Telerik Corp

This article is designed to help clarify the way Telerik WebUI Test Studio goes beyond Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition to offer richer user experience and solid web testing solutions.

A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

8 Oct 2013

Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

How to Display, Save, and Annotate 100+ Image Formats in Silverlight Clients

7 Jan 2013

LEADTOOLS Support

With minimal effort you can use LEADTOOLS V17 to load and save over 100 file formats, manipulate images with advanced image processing, and implement annotations directly within a Silverlight client application replacing the need for calls to an external server.

Building a Multi-Page Image Viewer with ImageGear for Silverlight and Azure

31 Aug 2010

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.

Dundas Dashboard: A Business Intelligence Solution Built With Developers In Mind

8 Sep 2010

Dundas Data Visualization

Dundas Dashboard is a turnkey Silverlight data visualization solution that lets companies create interactive dashboards and scorecards, all in a rich internet application (RIA) environment. This article will show the many powerful options for developers to customize and extend to get exactly what t

What Goes Into the Ultimate User Interface?

2 Nov 2010

J. Ambrose Little

With NetAdvantage® Ultimate 2010 Volume 3, Infragistics gives .NET developers all of the line of business controls with superior MS Office 2010 style and features for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight, and high performance data visualization controls on WPF and Silverlight.

Silverlight Analytics Help You Track Users’ Experiences

15 Dec 2010

J. Ambrose Little

Get to the bottom of users’ behavior with powerful Silverlight data visualization and line of business controls for tracking and analyzing what users of your RIA are doing. Infragistics Analytics Framework leverages the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework to give you the best Web analytics.

Connecting SharePoint to Windows Azure with Silverlight Web Parts

12 Jan 2011

Steve_Fox

How to integrate SharePoint apps with cloud-based technologies.

Access Control in Multi-Tenant Applications with Visual Guard

31 Aug 2012

Novalys

As companies look for different ways to manage their IT needs, “Multi-tenant” and “SaaS” applications are becoming more and more common. However, they also pose unique challenges. We will look at security administration and user management in a multi-tenant application with Visual Guard.

Writing Applications which Use Less Memory

2 Feb 2011

Redgate Software

Understanding how an application uses memory is a complex and time consuming process, but using a memory profiler the same analysis can be achieved in minutes. ANTS Memory Profiler is the simple way to visualize problems with memory usage in .NET code.

Analyzing Data Shouldn’t be Rocket Science: OLAP for Silverlight

9 Feb 2011

Greg Lutz

Learn how to perform OLAP analysis on plain data (no need to setup SQL cubes on your server). With ComponentOne OLAP™ for Silverlight Beta you have the tools to create interactive tables, charts, and reports. Drag-and-drop views give you real-time information, insights, and results in seconds.

Visual-Studio

product-showcase

What’s Automated Error Reporting and How Does it Work?

28 Feb 2011

Redgate Software

Learn how error reporting works and how to add it to you software in 3 simple steps. Not only is it easy for you to implement, you’ll also provide your end-users with a one-click solution to report exception/bugs when they occur, incl. the debugging data you need to reproduce the problem and fix it.

Integrating Performance Profiling into the Build Process

12 Apr 2011

Dom_Smith

A look at how performance profiling can be integrated into the build process to form part of the automated test suite.

Improving Software Quality Through Automated Customer Feedback

21 Jul 2011

Redgate Software

Discover how Automated Error Reporting can let your users notify you instantly when they encounter a bug, and give you all the information you need to reproduce and fix the problem.

Migrating from Silverlight to AngularJS

13 Nov 2014

Bernardo de Castilho

Learn how you can migrate an application away from Silverlight and into HTML5/JavaScript in this new white paper. In the paper, Bernardo de Castilho takes a simple Silverlight application and walks through, step-by-step, porting the ViewModel and the View into an AngularJS application.

KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight

16 Apr 2012

Colin Eberhardt

This article compares Silverlight and KnockoutJS by looking at the implementation of the same application with both frameworks and tries to answer the all-important question "which framework is best?"

Javascript

Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight

9 Mar 2012

Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the creation of a circular relationship graph, which plots a network of interconnected nodes as a circle.

Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 - Part 2

9 Nov 2010

Katka Vaughan

Learn how to use the Pivot and Panorama controls, page navigation, OData and more!

Shoot'em Up .NET

6 Nov 2013

Paulo Zemek

This is a small tutorial on how to create a Shoot'em Up game in .NET using mostly declarative animations.

Presentation Patterns for XAML based Applications

17 Sep 2013

Jani Giannoudis

Design patterns on the presentation layer for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications.

RegiRide, a complete Windows Phone application

24 Jun 2012

Patrick Kalkman

A complete WP7 application with SQL compact database, LINQ to SQL, MVVM Light and Dropbox integration

Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game

23 Jul 2010

Daniel Vaughan

Get a head start with the new Windows Phone 7 developer tools. Learn how to create a Sokoban game in Silverlight for the WP7 platform.

A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code

4 Jan 2013

Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking application that uses a number of the new Windows Phone 8 features.

ASM

Windows-Phone-8

Anatomy of HTML5/JavaScript Single Page Application in Samples (basics, navigation, composition, communications with the server)

First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part III)

27 Aug 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

A Zune Style Application Template for WPF and Silverlight

25 Jun 2012

Dave Kerr

A Zune Style Application Template that makes a great starting point for WPF or Silverlight Projects

20 Dec 2012

Nick Polyak

Describes Single Page Applications and a new BPF Framework that helps to develop SPAs.

Experimenting with enterprise level bus messaging

3 Sep 2010

Sacha Barber

A look into messaging solutions using NServiceBus.

Frictionless WCF service consumption in Silverlight - Part 2: Fixing the "All Is Async" Problem

17 May 2011

Yevhen Bobrov

Simplifying programming of asynchronous WCF service calls and asynchronous programming in general.

Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend

8 Jan 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

RiaTasks: Central Silverlight Business Rules Validation

13 Jul 2010

defwebserver

Using Fluent Validation on the website to validate business rules in a Silverlight application

Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind

6 Nov 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 2 - Solar System Animation built with SVG, Knockout and MVVM Pattern.

26 Sep 2012

Nick Polyak

Creating Solar System animation in HTML5/JavaScript

(Much) Faster Silverlight Scrolling

10 Dec 2008

Jerry Evans

Improving scrolling performance in Silverlight

RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example (using View Model)

16 Jul 2010

defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight Application that implements Create, Read, Update, and Delete using web services

CP Vanity for Windows Phone 7

17 Jan 2013

Don Kackman

A WP7 port of CPVanity with a CodeProject RSS reader.

Custom Rule Engine in WPF - MVVM

11 Sep 2010

Renil Joy, Bangalore

Custom Rule Engine approach which can evaluate complex combinations of business rules. A sample application is provided in WPF following the MVVM pattern.

Silver Draw - A Silverlight Based Collaboration White Board with Drawing and Chat

2 Nov 2009

Anoop Pillai

Silver Draw shows how to use Silverlight and WCF Polling Duplex services to create realtime collaboration apps.

Programmatic Silverlight Tree View Control Node Expansion using View Model (MVVM)

5 Nov 2010

defwebserver

Programmatically selecting a Silverlight Tree View Control node using View Model (MVVM)

Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2

24 Feb 2010

Daniel Vaughan

A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat. Allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.

Acquiring Images from Scanners and Webcams in Visual Studio LightSwitch

26 Oct 2011

Alessandro Del Sole

This article explains how to acquire images from scanners and Webcams and how to store them to a LightSwitch application's database

Context Sensitive History. Part 2 of 2

13 Mar 2010

Daniel Vaughan

A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat; allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.

MultiBinding in Silverlight 5

18 Nov 2011

Henrik Jonsson

An enhanced MultiBinding markup extension implementation for Silverlight 5 with support for bindable Converter, ConverterParameter and StringFormat

Circular Gauge Custom Control for Silverlight 3 and WPF

22 Jul 2009

EvelynT

An article on creating a circular gauge custom control for Silverlight 3

Commands in MVVM

3 Dec 2012

Dave Kerr

A consistent approach to Commands, Asynchronous Commands, and Events-to-Commands for WPF, Silverlight, and WP7.

ListBox Styling (Part 1 - ScrollBars) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

14 Apr 2010

Alan Beasley

How to Style a more complicated Control, than just a simple button, starting with the ScrollBars!

Silverlight : Simple PopUp Behavior for VM, MVVM

1 Sep 2010

defwebserver, hisowa

Behavior that will create a simple PopUp and run some ICommands when closed

Apex Part 2: Adding Commands to an MVVM Application

21 May 2012

Dave Kerr

Learn how to add Commands to your MVVM application to add functionality without breaking the separation of View and ViewModel.

Bike In City with Windows Phone 7

5 Jan 2011

hoonzis

Learn how to build a small mobile application to visualize data from the city bike sharing system. Get the nearest stations, find the number of free bikes, and compute directions to other stations.

Project Metadata Generation using T4

7 Nov 2009

Daniel Vaughan

Generate project metadata with T4 and unburden yourself from string literals in XAML binding expressions and INotifyPropertyChanged event arguments.

Zune Detection and Network Awareness

16 Nov 2010

dolhaig

How to detect the Zune connection and the Network State inside your WP7 Application

Tic Tac Toe Game using Microsoft Silverlight

29 May 2014

Steven Shahbazi

This tip shows how we can use Silverlight cool features to make a tic-tac-toe game in the web.

Silverlight YouTube Jukebox

27 Apr 2010

Katka Vaughan

Search and play YouTube videos inside a Silverlight 4.0 application! Learn about RIA Services, right-click event handling, themes, and styles.

How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library?

15 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.

Windows Phone 7 Turnstile Control for Silverlight

11 Oct 2010

Roberto Sonnino

A tutorial explaining how to develop the "Turnstile" animation as featured in the Windows Phone 7 UI, along with an easy-to-use ItemsControl that applies the effect to its items.

Dynamically Loading Silverlight Video Players using MEF

24 Aug 2010

defwebserver, hisowa

An example using MEF to dynamically load Silverlight Video Players

How to Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications?

26 Jul 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications

Windows Phone 7 Calcoolation

16 May 2011

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Math-based, sudoku-like game for Windows Phone 7

Cinch V2: Version 2 of my Cinch MVVM framework: Part 3 of n

1 Jan 2011

Sacha Barber

If Jack Daniels made MVVM frameworks.

From Silverlight to HTML5

4 Jul 2011

Colin Eberhardt

This article describes my experiences of taking a control written in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and making it cross-platform by re-implementing it using JavaScript and HTML5.

Silverlight Attendance Demo Using Sterling Silverlight Database

14 Nov 2010

defwebserver

A demo application using the Silverlight Sterling database using View Model (MVVM).

Resume the User’s Music after MediaPlay

8 Nov 2010

dolhaig

How to Resume the User's music after we played a video or audio from our Silverlight/XNA WP7 Application.

Fluent and Imperative Animations

18 Jun 2016

Paulo Zemek

Create animations easily using a Fluent API that integrates well with frame-based animation segments.

PocketWorld-Ultrabook Travel App

9 Oct 2012

Muhammad Shareef

This article is about the windows 8 metro style tour and travel app that use ultrabook features with ease of usability.The app is on its way to publish.

Modal Window in Silverlight

12 Mar 2009

Enver Buzoku

Shows a generic mechanism to make modal windows

Paginating Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

2 Jan 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

Silverlight Simple Drag And Drop / Or Browse View Model / MVVM File Upload Control

25 Jun 2011

defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight Drag And Drop / Or Browse File Upload Control using View Model / MVVM

Image in Azure: Upload, Deep Zoom Viewing, Mark Out and Annotation

6 Jul 2011

Igor Ladnik

Article presents Azure based software to image upload, viewing with Silverlight MultiScaleImage control, mark out and annotation. Browser performs the operations with no additional installation on user machine/device (the viewing browser should support Silverlight).

Using Silverlight Pie Charts in Visual Studio LightSwitch

27 Oct 2011

Alessandro Del Sole

This article explains how to bind Pie Chart controls from the Silverlight Toolkit to a LightSwitch screen

Soccerlight World Cup 2010

11 Jul 2010

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A soccer game made with Silverlight and VS 2008.

YouGrade - Silverlight Multimedia Exam Suite

5 Jun 2010

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A multimedia exam suite built on Silverlight and Youtube

Arcade Button in Expression Blend & Silverlight

4 Apr 2010

Alan Beasley

All the tools you need to create, tweak and style the Arcade button

Code Project Posts Analyzer for Windows Phone 7

23 Jan 2011

Nish Nishant

This is a WP7 application that will analyze your most recent posts and give you summarized statistics on your forum wide posting split up.

Silverlight Database Deep Zoom

26 Mar 2009

Joerg Lang

The article describes how to create a Deep Zoom image and store the tiles in a database, and how to read the image from the database and display it in the browser.

Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

7 Dec 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player

14 Nov 2010

defwebserver, Alan Beasley

A Designer/Developer collaboration in an example of a Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player

Generate WPF and Silverlight Dependency Properties using T4 Templates

28 Apr 2009

Colin Eberhardt

This article describes how to generate Dependency Properties from an XML declaration using a simple T4 template. It also includes a quick T4 primer.

File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability

6 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control

18 May 2011

Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 7 Jump List control, giving a step-by-step account of the control's development (and a pretty flashy control to use at the end of it!).

Rapid Development of Engineeging Web Site

1 Nov 2012

Petr Ivankov

From desktop to Web

A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7

29 Jan 2011

69Icaro

Analyzing the Snake game, we'll study an application for the new Windows Phone 7 platform, focusing on localization, Inversion of Control, navigation, transition effects, triggers, Isolated Storage, audio and we'll also use Blend to create a rounded glowing button, and other things...

The Big Bang Transcripts Viewer

12 Jan 2012

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to download your favorite TV transcripts and format it in your Smartphone.

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

Text-to-Speech Application using Silverlight 4 COM API

2 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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.

10 Cool Buttons for Download in Expression Blend & Silverlight

13 Jul 2010

Alan Beasley

The WC Door button, covering all the missing skills needed to create the buttons shown in my first tutorial. As well as all 10 buttons for download!

Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 - Part 1

17 Mar 2011

Katka Vaughan

Learn how to use the Pivot and Panorama controls, page navigation, OData and more!

A Windows Phone 7 App from the Ground Up

21 Dec 2010

Don Kackman

Building a WP7 browser app for last.fm

A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight

31 Mar 2009

Timmy Kokke

A detailed walkthrough on how to style a basic Silverlight button into a "Glass Orb" button.

Silverlight DataTemplateSelector

7 Jul 2010

Raul Mainardi Neto

Implementing DataTemplateSelector on Silverlight

Using DynamicObject to Implement General Proxy Classes

10 Aug 2010

OlliFromTor

Extend any class with INotifyPropertyChanged and/or IDataErrorInfo via the new .NET-Framework-Class DynamicObject

Event-Driven Architecture in the Clouds with Windows Azure

5 Feb 2010

John Mokkosian-Kane, Daniel Hsu

To demonstrate Azure and EDA, this article will show you how to build a flight delay management system for all US airports in clouds with Windows Azure.

Codeproject Windows Phone Application

20 Feb 2012

Lakamraju Raghuram

This article aims at building an simple Windows phone 7 application for accessing Codeproject content.

Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part II

25 Feb 2013

Florin Badea

This article is the second in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7.

Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–II)

29 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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).

Synchronous Web Service Calls with Silverlight: Dispelling the async-only myth

16 Nov 2008

Daniel Vaughan

In this article, we look at the asynchronous web service model in Silverlight, and how it can be augmented to allow synchronous web service calls. We also explore efficient channel caching, and asynchronous Silverlight Unit Tests.

Peeling the Mango - Win Phone 7 Programming from the Ground Up (Part 1)

14 Jul 2011

Pete O'Hanlon

Learning how to program Windows Phone 7 from the very beginning

Parameter Substitution within Expression Trees

6 Jan 2011

Nick Polyak

This article describes how to substitute a parameter within an Expression tree by another expression, similar to how one can substitute an argument within a mathematical function by a different function

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 2

8 Jul 2011

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.

How I Optimized my Silverlight Asynchronous Web Service Consumption

27 May 2010

#realJSOP

With some earlier design forethought, I was able to inject some significant code optimization into a current project.

Architect

XAMLFinance – A Cross-platform WPF, Silverlight & WP7 Application

21 Sep 2011

Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of XAML Finance, a cross-platform application which works on the desktop, using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), on the web, using Silverlight and on Windows Phone 7 (WP7).

Silverlight Super Tabs Interface (using View Model / MVVM)

14 Nov 2010

defwebserver

Dynamically creating tabs of different types in the same Tab Control

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained

8 Aug 2010

Jeremy Likness

An introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.

Simplified MEF: Dynamically Loading a Silverlight .xap

6 Jun 2010

defwebserver

How to use The Managed Extensibility Framework to Dynamically Load a Silverlight .XAP using View Model Style

Invoking "Run" Dialog from In-Browser Silverlight 5 Application

12 Sep 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to open the "Run Dialog" directly from the Silverlight 5 application

Scroll Synchronization

29 Jun 2013

Karin Huber

Synchronizing the scroll position of multiple controls.

Silverlight MVVM Lib and FileUploader Using HttpHandler

9 Jan 2010

Sacha Barber

A demo app that shows how to upload a file using Silverlight/HttpHandler/MVVM, and includes Silverlight MVVM Library and Helpers.

Embed PicLens

23 Mar 2010

Sacha Barber

Simple article showing how you to embed PicLens in your own apps

Developing a Loosely Coupled Silverlight 3 Application

20 Jul 2009

Mark J. Caplin

Create a line of business application using Silverlight 3.

Picture Frame Control in Expression Blend & Silverlight

9 Jun 2010

Alan Beasley

How to build your first re-useable Control from scratch in Expression Blend

Catch and Handle WCF Service Exceptions in Silverlight

22 Jan 2009

Suriel Bendahan

A reusable set of code to enable service thrown exception handling in Silverlight.

Customizable Loading Indicator for Silverlight 3

30 Nov 2010

Jevgenij Pankov

An article on creating a customizable loading indicator for Silverlight 3

Grid960 Layout for Silverlight

11 Jun 2013

Dave Kerr

The 960 Grid System is a hugely popular layout system for web sites - Grid960 lets you use it in Silverlight!