Windows 7 Desktop Simulation in SL
"Guys… As mentioned in my last post that I’ll be sharing a live demo of Desktop simulation we did in Silverlight. Please don’t go mad because I’m a bit late to do it. Actually I have been so busy last 2-3 days but now its live. Enter any password and login, you are ready to play. Don’t try this on Real Windows because such a deed will be useless :P" - [More]
http://geekswithblogs.net/RizwanSharp/archive/2009/03/29/finally-windows-7-desktop-simulation-is-live.aspxSL Datagrid Paging
"One of the problems I met in Silverlight 2 was paging option in viewing large data content. And to do this I googled this and found several good examples but the best was done by Manish Dalal. In every click to “next” the new set of data is taken from list." - [More]
http://huseyincakir.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/silverlight-datagrid-paging/Binding in code behind
"In my previous posts about binding in code behind with WPF, I talked about my helper class that allowed me to quickly create a dependency property within any class and use a number of static functions to quickly bind dependency properties in code behind. So when I took a look at the binding capabilities in Silverlight 2.0 I was disappointed to find out that much of the binding had been stripped out. In fact there was almost nothing from my user class that I could use in Silverlight 2.0 because of the exclusion of the class BindingOperations. So how does one bind in code behind in Silverlight 2.0? " - [More]
http://blog.falafel.com/2009/03/30/BindingInCodeBehindWithSilverlight20.aspxSL Drop Text Shadows
"Before Silverlight 3, you had to do perform some less-than-ideal tricks to achieve a drop shadow effect on your text. In fact, the most decent trick I could find had to rely on the TextBox control and not the TextBlock control since you cannot re-template a TextBlock control. But even that technique was not optimal since you couldn’t get a truly smooth shadow." - [More]
http://pagebrooks.com/archive/2009/03/30/easy-drop-shadows-on-text-in-silverlight-3.aspx*** Document Toolkit for SL ***
"Today I have released a preview of the Document Toolkit for Silverlight. Document Toolkit is a fast, feature-rich and 100% client-only XPS document viewer library for Silverlight 2 and 3." - [More]
http://firstfloorsoftware.com/blog/announcement-document-toolkit-for-silverlight/Validation Exceptiosn
"With the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK and .NET RIA Services, a lot of people are starting to utilize the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations library to add validation metadata to their entities. Something that has tripped up some people is the use of exceptions for validation errors, where Visual Studio breaks with a user unhandled exception." - [More]
http://blog.jeffhandley.com/archive/2009/04/01/184.aspxSL installation Switches?
"Below is a list of all of the Silverlight v1,2, and 3 installation switches available and their description. This will be included in the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment guide v2 which I’m writing - to be released soon. In the mean time, here they are for your assistance:" [More]
http://blogs.technet.com/extreme/archive/2009/04/02/silverlight-installation-switches.aspxSL 3 - ListBox Multiple Selection
"In Silverlight 3 you can make multiple selections in a ListBox. You just need to set the SelectionMode parameter:" [more]
http://www.silverlightshow.net/tips/Enable-multiple-selection-in-Silverlight-ListBox.aspx