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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...
I stumbled upon this really nice Silverlight application today – Shidonni is a sort of social networking application for creative children – it lets them create their own animals, put them in a world that they’ve created, feed them with the food they...
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...
SilverlightShow.net is running a SilverlightShow Eco Contest ! Write a Silverlight -based application that helps support and promote environment-friendly activities, and you can win great prizes, including a trip to MIX10 event in Las Vegas (MIX10 pass...
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:...
I’m observing this really irritating trend with new software lately… I followed up on a couple of tweets today to try the new Silverlight application everyone was RT’ing of. Clicked on the link and the loading animation began. Seconds later, it… stopped...
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...
Windows 7 launch day was fun. I gave a talk on Expression tools (and related) – here’s the PowerPoint slide deck for those who asked for it: I used Expression Blend 3 to build a photo viewer application, which I’ll blog about later; key points here were...
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...
When taking about data validation in applications, I usually describe the validation as the five-stage process or, put differently, five lines of defense against invalid data. In this post, I’ll write about the first line of defense – preventing the user...
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