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The current Silverlight version is v3, with v4 in the making (in Beta 1 at the time of this posting). Silverlight 4 is bringing a lot of new features in the core framework and to use them, you would have to migrate your applications to the latest version...
My two-part article on rebuilding an existing Silverlight application to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) for “selective composition” is now live on SilverlightShow.net ( part 1 , part 2 ). I took my Halloween Gallery application and made it...
Following up on The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend post from Josh Smith, I tried to make Blend display pictures from the My Pictures folder right in my Silverlight application. Needless to say, it worked as advertised :) The ViewModel is set through...
A few of my Silverlight articles were published on the SilverlightShow site this past two months. The first one is an introduction to Silverlight/(WPF)/Blend behaviors, where I create a Silverlight Halloween Sound Player without writing a single line...
Fooling around with Silverlight’s WebCam support. The application below will let you zoom in and out of WebCam capture and pan around. Nothing special, just a quick POC for the project I’m building. Silverlight 4 required . tweetmeme_url = 'http:...
In my post -NTK09 conference blog post I mentioned one of my MVVM demos was about sharing a ViewModel between WPF , Silverlight and even Windows Forms application. I got a lot of requests for posting sample code online since then, which I intended to...
In my previous post , I wrote about “the first line of defense” against inputting invalid data in Silverlight applications (or any kind of application, for that matter) – preventing the user from entering invalid data through some an input form. Input...
This is a short tip for constraining your Silverlight applications to a single instance, something that’s quite popular in the desktop applications world. What you want to do is allow only the first instance of your application while rejecting all subsequent...
With Halloween around the corner, it’s time for some scary photos… In this post I’ll explain how I built my demo application I showed at my Windows 7 Launch talk . Expression Blend 3 shipped with a few interesting samples, available for immediate use...
On this year’s Bleeding Edge conference I had a talk on debugging with my fellow SQL Server MVP . While he covered some common pitfalls developers make on the SQL Server side, I focused on the Silverlight side of development and debugging: possible issues...
This is the beginning of what’s going to be yet another series focusing on developing LOB applications with Silverlight. I’ve been wanting to write more on this topic since NTK, but there was always something else… In the series, I’ll build a sample application...
I’ve just started discovering Prism , mainly as a tool to help me use the MVVM with my apps. That said, by now, Prism proved itself with: Support for Commanding EventAggregator Unity integration Targeting both WPF and Silverlight EventAggregator is great...
Silverlight 3 includes a new type of a StackPanel , called VirtualizingStackPanel . VirtualizingStackPanel enables UI virtualization and is now the default items panel for the ListBox , with virtualization option enabled. If you want to turn UI virtualization...
Silverlight 3 puts the ICollectionView interface to some serious use and brings us the CollectionViewSource class, which provides a view on top of the data collection, meaning you can sort, filter or group your items within your view, without actually...
Silverlight 3 shipped with 2 built-in bitmap effects that can be applied to any UIElement – those are DropShadow and Blur. But not to worry, we can create and use a lot more effects, because these are pixel shaders, compatible with the ones built for...
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