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by Colin Eberhardt
This article describes the creation of a circular relationship graph, which plots a network of interconnected nodes as a circle.
by defwebserver
How using the Silverlight DataTrigger allows you to run a process and then raise another when using View Model (MVVM)
by Todd Davis
How to bind an enum to radiobuttons in Silverlight/WPF.
by defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

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Implementing Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR 2 and Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Client 2 in Silverlight
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This tip shows how we can use Silverlight cool features to make a tic-tac-toe game in the web.
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How to save a silverlight telerik grid content to excel
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How to pass values from one Silverlight application to another using WCF service

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Silverlight - General 

2 Apr 2009
Ed Dupas
An extension of the code submitted in the article: "Modal Window in Silverlight". This extension wraps the hosted control in a window frame that provides various modal features.
10 Dec 2008
Jerry Evans
Improving scrolling performance in Silverlight
8 Oct 2009
Shivprasad koirala
3 ways of applying layouts using Silverlight
12 Dec 2011
MetaMapper (Andy Powell)
Learn 3D programming with Silverlight-5 and XNA
13 Aug 2010
Shivprasad koirala
4 simple steps to consume WCF service using Silverlight
12 Aug 2010
Shivprasad koirala
In this article, we will look at how we can do database operations using SilverLight.
6 Jul 2011
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.
30 Aug 2009
Xavier Spileers
An introduction on Silverlight for developers of administrative applications. The article starts by explaining the basics of WPF and then delves deeper in the business-oriented aspects.
21 Oct 2009
cokkiy
Widget developing is more and more in fashion today, drag and drop support is a basic function in a widget platform. If you want to develop a Silverlight widget platform, you may need a Panel which supports drag and drop UIElement on it. The WidgetZone is a Panel that can be used in such cases.
31 Mar 2011
Wang Hai Feng
A simple GB2312/GBK encoder for Silverlight
9 Mar 2010
George Henry 1954
A small, extensible suite of classes that elegantly solve some common problems involving asynchrony and event handling that tend to occur when Silverlight and WCF are used together.
14 May 2008
Valentin Billotte
Creating a templatable treeview in Silverlight
8 Jun 2010
David Bobeck
Using attached properties in WPF or Silverlight to loosely couple UI element events to arbitrary code.
27 May 2008
codegod.de
An article on combining Silverlight and JavaScript in an ASP.NET Web page
18 Jul 2012
Pranay Rana
Align Text in Autogenerated Column of Rad Silverlight Girdview and Silverlight Gridview
3 Aug 2011
rj45
An easier Splitter control for silverlight
17 Feb 2010
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.
12 Dec 2009
All-In-One Code Framework
This article introduces several Silverlight samples in the All-In-One Framework.
9 Jun 2010
keesari_anjaiah
In this chapter, you will be learning the fundamental concepts of Animations in Silverlight Application, which includes Animation Types, namespace details, classes, objects used, implementation of different types of animations with XAML and with C# code ...
4 Feb 2008
Valentin Billotte
Why not create our own BackgroundWorker for use with Silverlight?
24 Nov 2009
GanesanSenthilvel
All basic database operations in Silverlight version 3.0 are covered here.
12 Jun 2010
keesari_anjaiah
In this article, you will learn the basics of the Silverlight technology.
12 Oct 2007
Andrey Baskov
Describing basic Silverlight principles
28 Apr 2012
ManojKumar19
Server side logging for Silverlight applications using NLog 2.0
30 Aug 2010
Kerem Kat
Connecting geographical locations on Bing Maps with Bézier curves
6 Oct 2010
Pawel idzikowski
How to serialize binary data to IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight client when there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight? Why not with sharpSerializer? - An open source XML and binary serializer for .NET and Silverlight
24 Feb 2011
Dr. Song Li
This article introduces a simple method to bind UI events to the corresponding methods in the MVVM view models in Silverlight applications.
23 Aug 2010
Timmy Kokke
Geting started with the Silverlight PivotViewer
16 Feb 2012
Dr. Sai
This article demonstrates how to code the Carousel animation effect in Silverlight
21 Apr 2012
Kelvin Armstrong
Entity Query Load Manager for Entity Framework Domain Contexts.
16 Apr 2009
Daniel Vaughan
A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server. Includes a Silverlight interface and Log Viewer.
1 Jun 2011
Gary H Guo
Apply components, aspects, and Dynamic Decorator principles to Silverlight / WCF Service applications.
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).
5 Sep 2008
SteveLi-Cellbi
Creating dynamic animations, and a simple way to reuse them to reduce the XAML code size.
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
10 Feb 2008
Michael Sync
The simplest way to do CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight using ADO.NET Data Service (Astoria).
4 Nov 2008
AbuElNour
Implement Listbox using animation of items & publish Images on Surface
13 Sep 2010
Shine K Velayudhan
Custom Validation Summary by hiding default validation summary of data form
15 Feb 2011
Dr. Song Li
This article summarizes two utility classes used for data and command bindings in Silverlight MVVM applications and demonstrates how to use the two classes with a running example.
11 May 2010
keesari_anjaiah
In this article, you will learn the basic concepts of simple data binding in a Silverlight application.
8 Oct 2009
RadiantQ
The DataGridMovableRows control lets you move rows around in a DataGrid
1 Oct 2008
sommelo1
Dataset surrogate for Silverlight
24 Feb 2009
Sacha Barber
An article showing how to do DeepZoom in Silverlight 2.0.
21 Jan 2011
mbcrump
We will explore if a Silverlight application must end in .XAP.
12 May 2008
Tamir Khason
This article is about how to build the missing DrawingBrush object for Silverlight. Also, we'll learn about how to deeply clone Silverlight objects.
24 Aug 2010
defwebserver, hisowa
An example using MEF to dynamically load Silverlight Video Players
26 Jun 2011
Manas_Patnaik
Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework (MMPPF) from Microsoft which is an Open Source player framework and its implementation.
19 May 2011
David_Tucker
An article that compares Flex/Flash, Silverlight, HTML5/CSS3, jQuery/JavaScript for enterprise RIA development
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.
25 Aug 2010
Richard Waddell
ViewModel provides both IDataErrorInfo and collection binding for field-level errors and exceptions on client and server.
10 Mar 2010
Tom F Wright
Flexibox is an alternative to Lightbox, displaying multiple resolutions of an image without needing a popup overlay. Flexibox shows how a Silverlight app can resize itself with a page.
13 Feb 2012
Craig Jewiss
Using Fluent Validation with Unity in a Silverlight application
17 May 2011
Yevhen Bobrov
Simplifying programming of asynchronous WCF service calls and asynchronous programming in general.
18 Sep 2010
Yevhen Bobrov
Consuming WCF Services in Silverlight without static code generation of the service proxy.
9 Jul 2008
Berend Engelbrecht
Fast generation of DeepZoom image tile sets, collection thumbnails, and XML data in managed code without using external tools.
2 Mar 2010
keesari_anjaiah
How to start basic Silverlight application development using the different development options available.
11 Dec 2011
ntg123
Performing four different Google Image searches in a single web-page, each search result is displayed and managed in a 'conveyor-belt' form.
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!
3 Jul 2010
bl@cksheep
Display, edit and save large data sets in Silverlight using WCF based services and customized DataGrids
28 Nov 2007
Sriram Chitturi
IIS rejects files with unknown type and ISP providers may not have updated their servers with the XAML MIME type. This article suggests a workaround to host XAML files.
27 Feb 2012
Ondrej_Uzovic
Simple example showing the communication between Silverlight client and Java application.
19 Oct 2008
defwebserver
SilverlightDesktop.net is a Open-Source ASP.NET framework that allows you to dynamically load Silverlight modules into resizable draggable windows.
1 May 2010
Daniel Vaughan
Reduce threading code, and increase UI responsiveness with a new pattern extending MVVM.
25 Feb 2010
Sacha Barber
An introduction to ADO.NET Data Services / RIA Services.
22 May 2011
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!
3 Feb 2009
Vuyiswa Maseko
How to use DeepZoom
21 Mar 2014
Pete O'Hanlon
Adding some missing bits to Silverlight.
27 Oct 2008
Daniel Vaughan
Legion is a grid computing framework that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks. It provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor jobs. Also includes a WPF Manager application.
21 Sep 2009
BalaG Ganesan, Venkatesan Jagadisan
This article gives a basic understanding of List, ObservableCollection, and INotifyPropertyChanged.
24 Nov 2011
ntg123
Visual representation for a logical items-switching between two lists
1 Nov 2010
Durgaprasad Budhwani
This example will give you knowledge about how to design your site for different cultures.
3 Jun 2007
CJCraft.com
Learn more about the Mashup creator, Popfly space, and the Web page creator.
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.
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.
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.
8 Aug 2010
Jeremy Likness
An introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.
18 Nov 2011
Henrik Jonsson
An enhanced MultiBinding markup extension implementation for Silverlight 5 with support for bindable Converter, ConverterParameter and StringFormat
30 Sep 2010
David Furshpan
A simple code that shows how to create, bind and inject View and ViewModel
20 Oct 2008
Syed Mehroz Alam
A walkthrough of retrieving data from a database and consuming it in a Silverlight application.
8 Aug 2010
Shivprasad koirala
This article will talk about three ways of binding object properties with Silverlight user interfaces.
14 May 2012
ManojKumar19
How to open pop up window in MVVM environment. You can use it in WPF or Silverlight.
22 Dec 2010
vikas amin
Profile Silverlight applications performance directly through Visual Studio
3 Feb 2012
Dr. Sai
Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight
21 Mar 2011
Nick Polyak
Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples tutorial. Part 2 - Prism Navigation
21 Feb 2011
Nick Polyak
3rd part of Prism tutorial describing communications between the modules
5 Nov 2010
defwebserver
Programmatically selecting a Silverlight Tree View Control node using View Model (MVVM)
27 Oct 2008
Marc Schluper
Resize/Shrink Photos for Web Development to reduce download time
19 May 2011
Manas_Patnaik
Resource in Silverlight, A Brief Overview
13 Jul 2010
defwebserver
Using Fluent Validation on the website to validate business rules in a Silverlight application
15 Apr 2008
Yildirim Kocdag
Saving the Silverlight based web control to the database
7 Jul 2010
hisowa
Custom Behaviors to enable MouseWheel support to Silverlight Slider and bit more
1 Sep 2010
defwebserver, hisowa
Behavior that will create a simple PopUp and run some ICommands when closed
21 Dec 2007
Justin-Josef Angel [MVP]
An article about Silverlight 1.0 full JavaScript Intellisense
1 Nov 2007
Sacha Barber
Silverlight 1.1 Fun and Games
31 Jan 2008
Justin-Josef Angel [MVP]
An article presenting Silverlight 1.1 Hebrew and Arabic language support
8 Jun 2008
Christoph Husse
In contrast to existing ones, my RTE is fully written in C#, and doesn't use any HTML rendering or JavaScript. Most common features are supported!
30 Aug 2008
Stein Borge
Perform database updates from Silverlight applications.
24 Apr 2008
Enterra
This article has been initiated by some knowledge that we wanted to share based on our Silverlight experiences from one of the projects that we made.
27 Jul 2010
Mastro Zambo
Silverlight 3 Async File Uploader with WebControl and ASHX receiver
11 Mar 2010
Raul Mainardi Neto
Discovering the features of Silverlight 4
20 Nov 2009
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
This article demonstrates all the new notification features in Silverlight 4.
12 Jun 2010
Stephan Johnson
Create a rich and dynamic background that reacts to users when they use your application.
11 Nov 2007
Daniel Vaughan
A fun Silverlight implementation of the game Sokoban. Contrasting Silverlight 1.1 and WPF, while showcasing some new features of C# 3.0, Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Visual Studio 2008.
3 Sep 2009
Abhinav S
Silverlight and Application Globalization – The Converter approach
9 Feb 2010
Anoop Madhusudanan
A good starting guide for Understanding, Exploring And Developing Silverlight and WPF Behaviors and Triggers - Using C#, Visual Studio and Blend
29 Dec 2007
Cal Schrotenboer
An article on building a practical business application using Silverlight animations.
11 Feb 2009
Amit Kanfer
Simple memory leaks detector for Silverlight applications.
8 Jan 2013
Pranay Rana
Silverlight Application with Dispatcher and asynchronous WCF Service
7 Aug 2007
ashish_patil++
An article on creating real time line graphs for webpages using AJAX and Silverlight.
12 Dec 2010
outcoldman
An article about Silverlight validation: DataAnnotations and ValidatesOnExceptions, IDataErrorInfo and INotifyDataErrorInfo.
29 Apr 2010
Sangsu Park 99
How to serialize a pure .NET object class to a fast binary data
21 Dec 2009
Modesty Zhang
Silverlight Cairngorm update for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010.
23 Dec 2007
Justin-Josef Angel [MVP]
An article about Silverlight Controls - The path to reusable XAML
6 Nov 2010
defwebserver
How using the Silverlight DataTrigger allows you to run a process and then raise another when using View Model (MVVM)
24 Nov 2009
BBalmer
MVVM patterned calculator that demonstrates Charting Toolkit styling.
14 Jan 2010
Anoop Madhusudanan
A set of Silverlight Experimental Hacks (1) A custom implementation of EventTrigger and PropertyTrigger (2) Invoking methods in your view model in MVVM (3) Conditionally invoking triggers and behaviors (4) ReactiveTrigger for exporting your custom events
10 Aug 2010
Shivprasad koirala
SilverLight FAQ part 2 (Animations and Transformations)
26 May 2009
dhaneel
This article explains why Silverlight is needed. Explains the basic things which are required to understand the working of silverlight. Beginners must start with this article.
5 Aug 2010
venugopalm
Image download indicator for providing rich look in Silverlight application
26 May 2007
.Suchit
Tinkering with SilverLight to get a 3D scene rendered in the Browser.
16 Jul 2011
alrosan
Integration of Silverlight and JavaScript
6 Apr 2009
sunit_82
Has some cool features like sliding menus with animation and Drag N Drop from menu
5 Jun 2013
Emmanuel Nuyttens
Data validation example for Silverlight WCF enabled project
29 Apr 2012
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
How to create a pronunciation test tool using Silverlight and Python
15 Sep 2010
Piyush Patell
Silverlight Session Management, Error handling, and Unit Test of WCF service
5 Jul 2008
Ahmed Shokr
Marquee like Silverlight text rotator - implements web service calling and animation.
31 Mar 2008
Robert Linders
Supplementing the Silverlight 2.0b1 Controls
2 Dec 2008
Edward Moemeka
Build a tetris game using Silverlight 2.
4 Aug 2008
Mike Dobbles
First article in a series. This article focuses on the use of storyboards for creating animation effects.
5 Aug 2008
Mike Dobbles
How to use Silverlight to create the animation of a ball being thrown and bouncing
3 Aug 2008
Mike Dobbles
A step-by-step example on how to use the Silverlight VisualStateManager to create an animated navigation bar.
25 Sep 2010
defwebserver
An example of Silverlight View Model communication between Master and Child View Models
16 Oct 2013
Zelzer
This article describes how to write Unit Tests for Silverlight ViewModels with a mocked DomainContext.
8 Apr 2009
SteveLi-Cellbi
Interesting aspect of Silverlight visual states and how they can be used in controls.
7 Feb 2012
apis3445
Its a silverlight page to create a simple comic with photos and text-ballons
11 Aug 2010
Shivprasad koirala
This article discusses 12 FAQ’s which revolve around bindings, layouts, consuming WCF services and how to connect to database through Silverlight.
21 Apr 2010
Tamas Koszoru
Small, generic, reusable infrastructure for running tasks asynchronously and displaying progress information.
23 May 2010
defwebserver
A simple Silverlight application that uses RX Extensions to communicate with an oData service.
6 Jun 2010
defwebserver
How to use The Managed Extensibility Framework to Dynamically Load a Silverlight .XAP using View Model Style
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.
18 Apr 2010
Tamas Koszoru
Summarizing client side asynchronous invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight. Introducing ServiceClient class.
16 Mar 2010
Valentin Billotte
How to make TRUE sync call in Silverlight
5 Dec 2011
Gary Bilkus
A helper class to simplify and enhance Silverlight async calls
9 Jul 2010
Nicolas Dorier
How to easily animate Thickness in Silverlight (Margin, Padding, BorderThickness).
20 Oct 2008
Modesty Zhang
Some code changes and improvements that make the Silverlight Cairngorm thread-safe
29 May 2014
Steve (Saeed) Shahbazi
This tip shows how we can use Silverlight cool features to make a tic-tac-toe game in the web.
5 Jul 2012
korsarz33
Accordion versus TreeView and the DataGrid in the navigation data in Silverlight.
4 Aug 2010
Xavier Spileers
Classes to add a UIExtensionSites-like mechanism to PRISM.
14 Dec 2009
Etienne Whittom
This article explains how to retrieve valuable image information from the Exif data found in JPEG images, and provides a Silverlight class library to perform this task entirely on the client's machine
28 Jun 2009
Rohit Shrivastava, AmitKRana
Usage of IsolatedStorage made easy
30 Sep 2008
priti_sisodia
Describes the usage custom font in Silverlight
24 Sep 2010
Mamta D
The article discusses the RichTextBox control in Silverlight 4, and demonstrates how to use it.
8 Sep 2009
Nigel Ferrissey
An article demonstrating one way of integrating Silverlight 3 Navigation with Prism 2, including on-demand loading of modules.
6 Feb 2011
Emmanuel Nuyttens
Using SilverLight 4 LOB Development using RIA-Services, DTO's and EntityFrameWork
5 Nov 2010
SofianH
A description of the open source Web RSS Builder
5 Nov 2010
SofianH
A description of the open source Web RSS Builder
24 May 2011
Mohammad Elsheimy
In this article we'll have a full discussion of the new features of the Beta version of Silverlight 5.
2 Dec 2009
Marc Schluper
Solving a common UI problem with a ViewModel.
23 Mar 2009
ByteBlocks
Article describing how to write a Silverlight client to consume a WCF service
6 Apr 2008
Nandini S Anatharam
What is XAML and its basics
5 May 2010
johnjollystupid
Loading pictures from XML file and allowing users to save them to their local machine
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Controls 

24 Mar 2010
Alishah Novin
Currently, ComboBoxItems cannot be selected using the keyboard - only the mouse. This is an attempt to resolve that.
10 Jul 2009
Andrius Mudinas
A multilingual Silverlight virtual keyboard.
21 Jul 2009
Alberto Venditti
How to implement paging and filtering on a Silverlight 2 ListBox.
11 Jan 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)
15 Mar 2011
Hiren Khirsaria
Zooming and panning an image in a Silverlight application.
22 Oct 2009
cokkiy
VideoCarousel is a Silverlight V2 control that can play media in an interactive carousel.
26 Nov 2008
Mohammad Dayyan
This article shows you how we can create an animation button in Silverlight.
11 Jun 2008
Florian Kruesch
This article is all about implementing a triangle primitive as a custom control in Silverlight 2.0 that can be used for 3D effects in Silveright.
20 Oct 2008
Anil Kumar T R
An enhanced ViewStack component for Silverlight 2 with transitions and cache management.
9 Jan 2010
Paul B.
Business users love them some Excel. Using similar navigation and features helps with buy-in for your applications.
16 Feb 2010
Syed Mehroz Alam
How to customize an AutoCompleteBox as a type-ahead ComboBox for Line of Business applications.
16 Jan 2009
Stefan Bocutiu
Allows auto filtering functionality for the datagrid columns
27 Jul 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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
29 Jul 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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).
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.
3 Jun 2009
Jeff Karlson
Implementation of editing and validation features.
5 Feb 2009
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.
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.
22 Jul 2009
EvelynT
An article on creating a circular gauge custom control for Silverlight 3.
23 Feb 2009
johnsontroye
Using Silverlight 2.0 and C#/VB.NET to build an image rotator that has a useful set of basic features and is easy to setup and deploy.
5 May 2011
Clifford Nelson
Implements a control to support changing colors for Silverlight Shapes using VisualStateManager
14 Sep 2010
Sandrino Di Mattia
If you take a look at the Silverlight DataGrid, you'll see that you can't control scrolling by default. This could be a hurdle if you're working with data driven applications. What if you want to preserve the scroll position after you reload the DataGrid?
25 May 2010
Mark Brownsword
This article demonstrates building a web based interactive chart and is my attempt to assimilate some of the recent updates and best practices that have emerged with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 into my software lexicon.
22 Dec 2013
Kashif_Imran
The article shows the proecess of creating and using a discrete value slider for Silverlight.
1 Dec 2008
cokkiy
In this article, you will learn how to create a Vista busy cursor like Silverlight control step by step.
28 Mar 2010
Marc Schluper
Extending the Silverlight RichTextBox so that it supports interactive text
5 Jul 2010
bbbnova
How to create a silverlight 4 Busyindicator style with custom progressbar
30 Nov 2011
Manas_Patnaik
Customizing DataPager with PageSize dropdown in Silverlight.
19 Sep 2009
Ahmed_Said
Creating a user control for displaying a custom messagebox in Silverlight 3.0
6 Dec 2008
OsoreWatashi
Here, you will learn how to create your own custom panel like the an advanced canvas.
30 Mar 2010
Anil_Saran
This article describes a basic functionality of textbox with cut, copy, paste and delete using context menu which might be helpful to enrich user experience and assist developers.
30 Nov 2010
Jevgenij Pankov
An article on creating a customizable loading indicator for Silverlight 3
22 Dec 2011
Hiren Khirsaria
Creating TabControl with SideMenu and SideBar
10 May 2012
Sunasara Imdadhusen
DataPagerPlus allows user to displaying Navigation Button (right), Page Number (center), Total Records (left) on Pager
8 Nov 2010
RobCroll
Creating a custom control when inheriting ItemsControl doesn't fit the requirement
14 Apr 2008
Attila Hajdrik
In this article, I show the key steps to develop a Silverlight 2.0 custom control
4 Oct 2010
Alishah Novin
A simple double-clickeable datagrid in Silverlight
24 Dec 2013
Anil_gupta
This article is about the DownloadProgress, DownloadProgressOffset, and BufferProgress of the MediaElement.
9 Mar 2009
Debdatta Dey
How to create dynamic Silverlight controls with animation binding with XML data.
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.
20 May 2009
Abhinav S
Finding a child control inside another control
16 May 2011
Jevgenij Pankov
Resizable windows simulating multi-windows desktop interface for Silverlight 4
11 Apr 2011
Graeme_Grant
This article focuses on developing an MVVM compatible ListBox-to-ListBox drag/drop helper for Silverlight.
25 Aug 2013
David Lonson
A mini-language for simple graphic drawing in Silverlight.
8 Aug 2011
Thomas Guilbault
Adding support for groups to the Silverlight Toolkit's StackedColumnSeries chart.
30 Dec 2008
Jürgen Bäurle
This article describes how to implement custom cursors in Silverlight.
9 Aug 2011
Renil Joy, Bangalore
Creating a custom AutoCompleteBox which will filter large amounts of data quickly.
4 Jan 2010
Xmen W.K.
A control to render the object tag for MediaPlayer
8 Oct 2009
Wayne Delport
An article demonstrating how to implement a message box or confirm dialog with the Silverlight Toolkit.
29 Apr 2013
Hiren Khirsaria
create Metro theme listbox using style and templates
27 Jul 2011
Manas_Patnaik
A DatePicker control in Silverlight with multiple months view.
12 Mar 2013
Frank W. Wu
A tutorial on how to create a Multiple-Selection ComboBox for Silverlight
26 Jan 2012
Jawahar Suresh Babu
A notification control for Silverlight that looks like the Windows 7 balloon tip.
30 Mar 2011
Mircea Deliu
This post describes a simple and easy way to change the current behavior of your Silverlight or WPF ComboBox by using an attached property and a ComboBox style.
8 Jun 2008
Matt Perdeck
Counterpart of HTML's ol and ul tags for Silverlight
18 Sep 2011
silverazure
This article describes a Prize Wheel designed with Silverlight Pathlistbox control.
7 Aug 2009
MIB426
Silverlight is a new and powerful browser plug-in that works with Mac OS, Windows and Linux. It helps you create rich web application that is safe, secure and scalable cross-platform. This article will use Visual Studio 2008 to create Silverlight pop search form control.
12 Feb 2009
Thilo Ruppert
An article on a flexible Silverlight 2 Drag and Drop Manager and TemplateControl
15 Jul 2012
Douglas Smallish
Demonstrates how to code a Silverlight Chart ControlTemplate Programmatically.
15 Jan 2009
Philip Kin
A popup menu implementation with submenus.
22 May 2008
Chuck Kinnan
Encapsulated Popup logic for easy reusable Silverlight popups
14 May 2008
Praveen Chandran
Running video in Silverlight site using Expression Blend
16 Oct 2008
Itamar Kotler
An implementation of a 3D image cube as a custom user control in Silverlight 2.0
26 Feb 2009
Alexei Prokudin
Syntax highlighting TextBox in Silverlight 2.0.
22 Jul 2009
Alexei Prokudin
This is an implementaion of SL 3.0 DropDown Menu like Application MainMenu
6 Oct 2009
CS Rocks
This is a slideshow that works in a Silverlight 3 UserControl.
18 Jun 2009
HarishBhattbhatt
Silverlight auto-complete treeview which takes hierarchical data as its datasource.
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
29 Jun 2011
Seth Dingwell
A solution for the Silverlight combobox dropping its bindings after setting a null value.
30 Apr 2012
Arpad Pandy
This is an alternative for "Silverlight Extended Canvas Control to Crop Images"
26 Apr 2009
Modesty Zhang
Presents the design and interface considerations together with implementation details for NumberTumbler custom control in Silverlight 3 Beta
15 Dec 2008
Somnath Pal
Creating a dynamic header for the Silverlight DataGrid with multiple rows/columns.
7 Jul 2010
Raul Mainardi Neto
Implementing DataTemplateSelector on Silverlight
25 Oct 2008
diego jose
How to create Custom Control and Drag and Drop Functionality
19 Jan 2012
Onat Yiğit Mercan
1 alternative  
Silverlight Extended Canvas Control to Crop Images
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.
14 Feb 2009
defwebserver
An example of a Gantt chart implemented in Silverlight 2.0.
14 Apr 2010
Tingz Abraham
Silverlight glass style DataGrid header with glow animation on mouse-over.
19 Oct 2010
RobCroll
A Hierarchy Tree with the ability to display any control as a node
17 Jun 2008
Ferreri Gabriele (Megasoft78)
Silverlight integrated into an ASP.NET AJAX control (Fifteen Puzzle Game).
8 Mar 2009
Anil_gupta
This article is about some of the issues like drag and drop in the same listbox and scrolling.
26 Feb 2009
Anil_gupta
How to show mutliple types of items in a single listbox by using multiple templates.
24 Apr 2011
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
A lightweight, professional-looking, MVVM-enabled dropdown menu for Silverlight
14 Aug 2011
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
A new Silverlight menu with styling and templating.
29 May 2013
Marek Bieńkowski
This article introduces simple procedure for generating an organization chart with Silverlight technology.
30 Jun 2008
Maciej Gren
A small article about how to create a simple password text box in Silverlight 2 Beta 2
7 May 2010
Narsimlu Keshagouni
Silverlight pictures album control with zooming and slideshow.
25 May 2010
silverazure
This article describes a Silverlight wheel animation using a custom circular ListBox control.
25 Jun 2011
defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight Drag And Drop / Or Browse File Upload Control using View Model / MVVM
26 Mar 2012
AmitDey
A Silverlight TreeView control with Crud operations
19 Oct 2008
Mike Dobbles
A step by step guide to creating a skinnable animated navigation bar custom control.
26 Sep 2008
Enver Buzoku
Describes how to create an MFC like Wizard (Property sheet with Property Pages) control.
7 Nov 2008
papnkukn
This article explains how to create a developer friendly custom control in Silverlight 2.0
28 Apr 2008
Tim Mason
A Silverlight2 lightbox control
30 Aug 2011
Ross Brigoli
How to simulate the MaxLines property in a Silverlight TextBox.
12 Sep 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
22 Aug 2011
Oludayo Alli
Styling the chart control in the Silverlight Toolkit to create a new look and feel.
3 Jul 2008
Matt Perdeck
Reusable code to do narrow data columns with navigation buttons, such as address lists.
27 Oct 2008
lneir
Displays a text string along a path defined by a given geometry.
7 Dec 2011
RakeshGunijan
Creating a type safe textbox in Silverlight or providing type safe behavior to textbox.
23 May 2012
Jorge J. Martins
UserControl populating ItemsControl – manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl.
17 Oct 2008
Anil Kumar T R
ViewStack component for Silverlight 2 – An inevitable control in RIA space
6 Mar 2008
lneir
A simple example of a custom panel using Silverlight 2.0.
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HowTo 

12 Dec 2011
MetaMapper (Andy Powell)
A minimal 3D program showing how to use XNA in Silverlight-5, with a full explanation of the core concepts
31 Mar 2009
Timmy Kokke
A detailed walkthrough on how to style a basic Silverlight button into a "Glass Orb" button.
22 Sep 2010
Sandrino Di Mattia
Clean up and manage your XAML references. This can be done using custom namespaces (scheme URLs) and custom prefixes.
3 Feb 2010
Dr. Song Li
This article introduces a more flexible and secure method to configure Silverlight applications using the Web.config file from the ASP.NET host application.
15 Dec 2009
Dr. Song Li
This article shows a simple and flexible way of creating a Silverlight splash screen.
12 Jan 2010
Abhinav S
A simple Quickstart for using the Unity Container with Silverlight.
21 Jun 2010
Arun Jacob
This is a simple Silverlight RSS Reader which pulls out data from a feed URL.
22 Oct 2008
Mekki Ahmedi
A solution for Silverlight versioning conflicts
5 May 2011
Pat Capozzi
In this article, I reduce the use of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight to the absolute minimum lines of code in order to understand the basics.
2 Oct 2011
Shining Legend
This article discusses how to access a Web Service from a Silverlight Application. It has sample code attached.
20 Jan 2009
A. Rajesh Kumar
Add or Retrieve Session Object from Silverlight and ASP.NET
26 May 2010
esaulsberry
An example of a COM object written in C# that allows access to hardware from Silverlight
6 Apr 2009
Bernhard Deininger
Simulate user interactions in a Silverlight application to create automated tests
29 Oct 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
In this article, I will show you how you can start with Visual Studio LightSwitch with an example.
21 May 2011
JohnExalt
The article demonstrates how to calculate various points in a Bezier curve and determine the angle at any point.
5 Sep 2011
Todd Davis
How to bind an enum to radiobuttons in Silverlight/WPF.
26 Jun 2010
nereo.lopez
How to get started with bing maps in your Silverlight app
1 Oct 2008
Modesty Zhang
Details & demo project of plumbing works that blend PDF and Silverlight visually with bi-directional data exchange.
8 Feb 2009
Henry Tan Setiawan
This article will show a technique to blend an HTML page into a Silverlight page seamlessly through .NET/JavaScript interop and HTML frames.
12 Feb 2009
junnark
We are going to build a simple web chat application using Silverlight 2 and the technologies surrounding it like, ASP.NET 3.5, C#, WCF, and LINQ-to-SQL. We will use MS SQL Server to store user details and messages from this chat room.
8 Nov 2012
I.explore.code
Capture a frame from live webcam feed and save it as an image file to disk
22 Jan 2009
Suriel Bendahan
A reusable set of code to enable service thrown exception handling in Silverlight.
16 Jun 2011
Clifford Nelson
Provides a way to connect to an external DependencyProperty
26 Nov 2011
Dr. Sai
This article explains to combine animations and easing functions to generate effects like the Les Paul (guitar) Google Doodle by Google and National Geographic channel’s Test your brain episode, etc.
27 Jan 2010
Dr. Song Li
This article introduces a way of developing Silverlight and WCF applications in the same Visual Studio solution.
9 Aug 2011
Manas_Patnaik
Conditional controls at Runtime in Silverlight DataGrid
6 Jan 2010
Dr. Song Li
This article introduces a method to configure Silverlight 3 applications using the Web.config file from ASP.NET.
8 Aug 2013
adriancs
Silverlight access to MySQL using Web Services.
3 Mar 2009
Suriel Bendahan
Share your .NET assemblies with Silverlight.
7 Jul 2011
Prabu ram
This article explains how to take a snapshot of a Silverlight page and convert it into a PowerPoint slide.
25 May 2009
SteveLi-Cellbi
Sample code on how to create reflection shader using new pixel shader feature of Silverlight 3
10 Dec 2010
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.
22 Feb 2011
Matt Cavanagh
A guide to making custom loading animations for your applications in Silverlight.
10 May 2011
KevinBhavsar
How to make Custom Splash Screen using Sliverlight 4.0
7 Jun 2010
Peter Gfader
Take a screen capture of your running Silverlight app and submit it to your web server, inclusive of a lot of system information
20 Jan 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
8 Jan 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
15 Apr 2009
Nidhi Dham
Dynamically Creating Silverlight Controls
17 Apr 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
4 Jan 2008
Aleksey Zaharov
This article shows you how to bring revolutionary UI provided by MS Silverlight to the world of ASP.NET control development with the help of the recently released ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP.
29 Jul 2012
Christian Amado
This is the first part in a set of articles relative to some useful features that you may be want to include on your Silverlight Application
8 Oct 2010
Dr. Song Li
This article introduces a method to download and use "XAP" packages on demand in Silverlight.
19 Nov 2009
dsmolen
Allows a user to drag a popup to any location in the Silverlight window.
1 Dec 2009
raelango
This article explains how to export the contents of a DataGrid to Excel/CSV.
26 Sep 2010
defwebserver
Easily implement two-way communication between Master and Child View Models that works with Microsoft Expression Blend
7 Dec 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
26 Aug 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
In this article, I describe MEF using a Silverlight Application. Read it and don't forget to vote and share your feedback.
27 Aug 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
15 Aug 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
7 Dec 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
22 Jul 2009
Jeremy Likness
Hierarchical data templates are a powerful way to organize and bind data that is available in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight.
28 Jan 2014
Jorge J. Martins
It's easy to add user customized properties to any Silverlight control.
8 Jan 2009
Michael Ceranski
A good example of a Silverlight game using collision detection.
15 Sep 2011
SummiG
This article focuses on how to compress several pages' contents in one page and print in Silverlight.
15 Jul 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.
9 May 2010
Anil_gupta
This article is about the best practices to write a Silverlight application which is highly unit testable.
16 Feb 2009
rudigrobler
An article on how to create a Candlestick stock chart using the Silverlight Toolkit.
14 Jun 2010
nereo.lopez
Deploying a Silverlight 4 application connected to a Database
28 Apr 2009
Eylon Yogev.
How can you tell if a computer has more than one CPU without using any special permissions.
10 Feb 2011
Vasudevan Kannan
The purpose of this article is to show how the default dialog displayed by the Silverlight plugin can be prevented from being shown to the user on right clicking on a Silverlight application.
15 May 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
19 Dec 2008
Jürgen Bäurle
This article describes how to implement the MergedDictionaries feature for resource dictionaries in Silverlight.
22 Apr 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
Silverlight 4 now has support for installing out-of-browser application silently. In this article, I will describe about it.
16 Sep 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
5 Oct 2008
bnossov
Step-by-step instructions on how to use the Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Software Development Kit in Oracle Weblogic Portal10gR3.
20 Jul 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
In this post, I will describe how to integrate the new symbol for the Indian Rupee in Silverlight application.
12 Sep 2011
mbcrump
A look at how to get started working with P/Invoke in the Silverlight 5 RC.
17 Oct 2011
SummiG
Shows how to visit an external XAP UserControl in Silverlight.
9 May 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
1 Jul 2008
Maciej Gren
How to communicate from JavaScript/HTML page to Silverlight application using password form
19 Aug 2009
MIB426
This article will demonstrate how to build a traditional master page style application in Silverlight.
12 Apr 2013
NightWizzard
...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...
28 Jul 2010
Ernesto Herrera
Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.
11 May 2009
Jack_Dermody
Describes how to make Silverlight applications behave like a traditional web application - with navigation states that use the browser's back/forwards navigation buttons.
12 Sep 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
How to open the "Run Dialog" directly from the Silverlight 5 application
18 Nov 2009
yozi
Communicating with Silverlight applications locally.
13 Sep 2010
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).
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.)
12 Mar 2009
Enver Buzoku
Shows a generic mechanism to make modal windows
1 Oct 2010
David Furshpan
How to create Commands infrastructure in Silverlight
15 Nov 2010
Ritesh Ramesh
Implementing the MVVM pattern in Silverlight 4.0
22 Apr 2008
Tamir Khason
How to use raw sockets in Silverlight application and how to make Silverlight speak with Windows Forms and WPF
30 Sep 2013
Jorge J. Martins
How to have notification on ObservableCollection, not only when the collection changes but also when any member of any of the collection items is changed. How to take advantage of it in a collection binding.
2 Jan 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
20 Oct 2009
Wayne Delport
An article demonstrating how to pass date values in XAML as property values.
21 Oct 2008
Ali Daneshmandi
This is an article on how to support Persian language in Microsoft Silverlight 2.0.
26 Apr 2011
Amir Eshaq
This code demostrates how to use Silverlight with OOB+elevated trust to play a local video (.avi).
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
10 Feb 2009
Anil_gupta
Playing subtitles with video in Silverlight
24 Nov 2009
raelango
This is a sample project to access Microsoft Access MDB data in Silverlight via OLEDB and dynamically populate a DataGrid.
11 May 2010
Thiago de Arruda
Showing some good practices that can be applied to the Presentation Model/MVVM pattern.
6 Jan 2011
mbcrump
This article describes how to prevent your Silverlight XAP file from caching in your browser.
11 Mar 2011
mbcrump
Here is an easy way to profile your Silverlight Applications after installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
22 Apr 2012
Shenwei Liu
A step by step guide showing the details of renaming projects and resolving related issues in a Visual Studio 2010 solution for a Silverlight application.
23 Jan 2010
ds47
This article shows how to retrieve exceptions from a Web Service to a Silverlight Client by creating a WCF endpoint behavior.
16 Jul 2010
defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight Application that implements Create, Read, Update, and Delete using web services
18 Feb 2011
Matt Cavanagh
A simple and very effective way to manage navigation between UserControls in a Silverlight project.
18 Aug 2010
Timmy Kokke
Tutorial on how to create a PivotViewer collection
8 Jul 2011
Craig Jewiss
Set focus on a control in Silverlight using events and triggers in XAML.
6 Oct 2010
Bruno Altinet
How to set up a basic application using Silverlight, RIA and NHibernate with top to bottom validation, all nice and fluent:)
13 Jul 2011
Alberto Venditti
How to avoid the Print dialog while printing from Silverlight.
28 Dec 2009
Bryian Tan
An article on how to create an image map with hotspots and attach click event and tooltip to it.
6 Nov 2009
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.
17 Sep 2009
CS Rocks
This article demonstrates how to display SQL Server data in a Silverlight DataGrid.
29 May 2010
defwebserver
An example of Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions.
17 Jan 2011
Bert O Neill
Get updates to your browser immediately when a change has occurred within the database.
17 Jun 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
20 Nov 2009
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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”.
27 Mar 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
28 Nov 2009
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
This article demonstrates the all new right click feature of Silverlight 4.
31 May 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
24 Apr 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
28 Aug 2009
Abhinav S
Using Property and Method injection with Silverlight 3
6 Oct 2008
Modesty Zhang
Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.
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.
22 Dec 2011
Sunasara Imdadhusen
Debug or attach the debugger to any local process running a Silverlight-based application in all supported browsers in your system.
15 Jun 2011
Michael Varey
This article covers the mechanics of how to use Silverlight drag and drop in a business application.
6 Jan 2012
rzvdaniel
This article describes how to dynamically apply themes to a Silverlight application.
1 Aug 2010
defwebserver
An implementation of the View Model Style pattern to create a simple Silverlight 4 File Manager
17 Nov 2011
ntg123
Performing multi-binding in Silverlight.
4 Oct 2010
defwebserver
Detect that a user has un-saved changes and popup a box that allows them to stop navigating away from the page (using ViewModel / MVVM)
3 Dec 2011
RakeshGunijan
Silverlight uer control validation display techniques.
1 Sep 2010
defwebserver
An example of an easy to use View Modal Style Popup and Silverlight Value Converter
24 Sep 2010
Adhish Pendharkar
Data binding in Silverlight Web Services
15 Dec 2009
Webplethora
How to get the Windows user identity name in Silverlight.
23 Jul 2013
Prabu ram
This article is aimed at helping develop a business application using Silverlight with MVVM and WCF service in a more manageable way.
20 Nov 2008
Timmy Kokke
Silverlight without XAML, just a playground for graphics and fun.
4 Nov 2009
Fasttimes
Send multicast commands to clients even when some clients are disconnected, and avoid blocking by using threads to send commands.
19 Sep 2010
Anil_Saran
How to set focus inside textbox while validating using MVVM pattern
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.
18 Sep 2009
Somnath Mondal
In order to create a great design, certain great processes help a lot and it is especially very helpful to have ways to effectively explore, communicate and evaluate design ideas fast and efficiently. SketchFlow will help you from the design process from the very first step to final production.
13 May 2010
Asher Barak
Implementing the MVVM Design Pattern with Silvelight - RIA Services.
11 May 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
In this article, I will describe how to implement the command binding to load some information & display it to the UI.
8 May 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
14 Mar 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
Steps to Discuss Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4
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.
2 Jul 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
8 Sep 2010
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
An article exploring the use of MVVM, styles and templates in game programming in Silverlight 4
5 Jan 2009
matrix_resident
Building a nice animation bar for your website with JavaScript & script.aculo.us
6 May 2010
defwebserver
An example of a View Model Style Modal Popup Unit Test.
6 Jul 2010
Raul Mainardi Neto
A simple dependency property that allows you to update a property on PropertyChanged.
6 Nov 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
1 Jun 2011
Gildon Opao
How to use Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0 Behaviors to help in the implemention of MVVM
7 Apr 2011
Bert O Neill
How to get started with MVVMLight and XAML for unit testing.
9 Nov 2010
Sergei Dumnov
It explains how to display business intelligence dimension table using Silverlight TreeView
8 Aug 2010
defwebserver
The Silverlight DataGrid using inline editing, paging, sorting, and button events, using the View Model.
30 Sep 2011
Rahman Masudur
This article shows how to use WCF service with Silverlight
20 Apr 2011
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
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Applications 

31 Aug 2011
pierre poliakoff
A tutorial on how to write a Silverlight game based on the classical Pong game.
7 Jul 2011
Weidong Shen
Part 1 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.
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.
8 Jul 2011
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.
3 Mar 2010
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.
30 Aug 2010
defwebserver
This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal
8 Mar 2011
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.
8 Mar 2011
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.
8 Mar 2011
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.
12 Apr 2011
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.
28 Jun 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library
4 May 2011
Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya
aCloud Web Operation System running on the cloud
6 Jul 2009
Jeremy Likness
Learn Silverlight with a simple tac-tac-toe game application. This article will explain how to build your first application and user control in Silverlight by creating a simple tic-tac-toe game complete with artificial intelligence.
15 Apr 2010
Yasser Azeem
An implementation of classic breakout game in Silverlight
7 Aug 2009
Shakeel Iqbal
A good tutorial for beginners to develop games in Silverlight.
23 Oct 2012
Judah Himango
Exercising Silverlight 4 to build a fun, real-world app
16 Mar 2009
junnark
In Part 1, we built a simple web chat using Silverlight 2. We are going to add functionalities so that users are able to choose from multiple chat rooms as well as chat privately with other users.
11 Jul 2009
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).
1 Dec 2011
Hiren Khirsaria
Communication between JavaScript and Silverlight to calling methods
5 Aug 2011
mbcrump
A look at how to communicate between two local Silverlight Applications
11 Apr 2009
Bishoy Labib
The turn based classic game Connect4 with computer AI
8 Sep 2010
BenWintringham
How to convert a Silverlight Navigation Application to use MVVM using Cinch V2.
20 Jul 2009
Mark J. Caplin
Create a line of business application using Silverlight 3.
27 Nov 2008
Mohammad Dayyan
How to create a simple dgital clock in SilverLight 2.
7 Sep 2010
Piyush Patell
Download the large file in chunk using WCF service and Silverlight
9 Nov 2010
Wayne Ye
Elevated trust is one of the most important new features in SL4, my post is going to concentrated discuss about elevated trust including accessing file system/isolated storage/registry, invoking COM objects and other executable files.
2 Dec 2010
Colin Eberhardt
In this article, I give a brief introduction to Reactive Extensions, then explore their use within Silverlight by creating a Twitter / Bing Maps mashup.
6 Jul 2010
_ Kunal Chowdhury _
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.
7 Sep 2011
mbcrump
A look at how to get started working with the Silverlight 5 RC
26 Apr 2011
Renat Khabibulin
Silverlight based simple image editor that allows user to create simple images online
27 Nov 2009
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.
20 Feb 2013
Uday P.Singh
Article describe interacting with database in Silverlight 4 with ease.
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.
11 May 2009
Michael Ceranski
A tutorial on how to recreate a classic arcade game in Silverlight.
2 Nov 2009
Anoop Madhusudanan
Silver Draw shows how to use Silverlight and WCF Polling Duplex services to create realtime collaboration apps.
9 Jul 2008
Mr.Darcy
Put image of products on the Canvas and drag and drop them to get them added to the cart. And use animation to sort them by id and price and recommend.
6 May 2010
defwebserver
A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads
8 May 2011
defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.
16 May 2010
defwebserver
A full featured Silverlight View Model Style Video Player
17 Jun 2012
Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman
How to create a simple Silverlight application using the MVVM pattern with WCF and Entity Framework.
13 May 2011
Balwant.mnd
Meeting Schedule - Part II - Saving to database and sending email to all the contacts
14 Nov 2010
defwebserver
A demo application using the Silverlight Sterling database using View Model (MVVM).
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.
21 Jul 2009
Venkatesan Jagadisan, Balaji Ganesaan
It describes page to page navigation with flip animation in Silverlight
13 Dec 2011
defwebserver
Viewing .rdlc reports from Silverlight using View Model (MVVM)
18 Jul 2010
defwebserver, Alan Beasley, hisowa
Creating multiple dynamic Views using View Model Style and the Silverlight Tab Control.
14 Nov 2010
defwebserver
Dynamically creating tabs of different types in the same Tab Control
11 Sep 2008
Mike Dobbles
A step-by-step guide for creating a Silverlight web app capable of submitting and retreiving data from a database.
19 Mar 2010
DrABELL
Silverlight™ (2.0/3.0/4.0) Video Player with programmable UI settings and media items (ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, C#)
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.
31 Dec 2007
Antonin Hildebrand
The article discusses the concepts of data driven web games. An example game 'SilverStunts' is presented and described in technical details.
5 Sep 2010
defwebserver
The application allows your users to query a collection using Silverlight using an animated display
7 Nov 2009
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.
6 Sep 2010
Stef Heyenrath
A T4 template for Silverlight apps that generates a class containing literal strings for all the resource strings defined in a .resx file. It helps make your Silverlight code much more maintainable.
25 Mar 2013
Avtar Singh Sohi
Understand MVVM using PRISM by Hello World Silverlight application.
31 Jul 2009
fulcrumweb
This article introduces FulcrumWeb RAD Framework - A Silverlight UI Engine to build user friendly database driven applications
19 Jan 2011
GergelyOrosz
The article aims to present a generic approach of fetching and visualizing live and historical stock data in Silverlight.
12 Aug 2011
Bert O Neill
How to implement a Silverlight application that uses (Super)WebSockets.
5 Jun 2010
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
A multimedia exam suite built on Silverlight and Youtube
15 Dec 2013
Fadi Abdelqader
What you should to do to create your own Silverlight Voice/Video chatting system
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.


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