Category |
Items |
Getting Started |
- How to set up your development environment for Silverlight development.
- How to write your first Silverlight application.
- How to write your first out-of-browser Silverlight application.
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Architecture and Design |
- How to design a Silverlight application based on the MVVP pattern.
- How to recognize scenarios suited for the MVVM pattern.
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Animation |
- How to animate an object
- How to animate programmatically
- How to use a timer
- How to get started with storyboarding
- How to slide a control in and out of view with storyboarding
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COM |
- How to Interoperate with COM Applications
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Controls |
- How to Display Data in a ListBox
- How to Add a Control to the Toolbox
- How to Add Tab Items to a Tab Control
- How to Create User-Resizable Applications with GridSplitter
- How to Handle the Checked Event for the CheckBox Control
- How to Change the Appearance and Behavior of the AutoCompleteBox Control
- How to Enable Silverlight Controls as Drag and Drop Targets
- How to Create User-Resizable Applications using layout controls
- How to use the progress bar
- How to use the Items Control
- How to implement a dependency Property
- How to display data in a DataGrid
- How to style a DataGrid control
- How to add a custom template for a selected item with DataGrid
- How to specify data context for a control
- How to add tip text for a control
- How to add controls to the content of another control (such as graphics and text for button or )
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Data Access |
- How to Store and Retrieve Application Settings Using Isolated Storage
- How to Perform Isolated Storage Tasks
- How to Encrypt and Signing Isolated Storage Files
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Data Binding |
- How to bind to a DataContext
- How to Create a Binding
- How to use value converters to transform data classes for display
- How to Bind to Hierarchical Data and Create a Master/Details View
- How to Validate Data with Data Annotations
- How to use commanding
- How to implement INotifyPropertyChanged and ObservableCollections
- How to maximize control reuse by understanding data binding and how it climbs the ui elements to find a data source
- How to validate data with data binding and validators
- How to Customize Data Display with Data Templates
- How to use Data Annotations to Customize Data Classes
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Deep Zoom |
- How to use deep zoom in Silverlight
- How to implement a collection image vs a single image in Deep Zoom
- How to create a custom multi scale image
- How to create image layers on a deep zoom image
- How to use the DeepZoomTools.dll
- How to create a HttpHandler to serve images to Deep Zoom
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Deployment |
- How to download dependencies on-demand
- How to Configure an Application for Out-of-Browser Support
- How to Implement Offline Support for Out-of-Browser Applications
- How to Add Resources to a Silverlight-based Application
- How to Sign XAP’s for Trusted Applications
- How to divide a large application into separate XAPs
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Events and Delegates |
- How to Define and Execute Dynamic Methods
- How to Hook Up a Delegate Using Reflection
- How to Define a Generic Type with Reflection Emit
- How to Define a Generic Method with Reflection Emit
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Graphics and 3D |
- How to crop an object
- How to use pixel shader effects
- How to use transforms
- How to use deep zoom in Silverlight
- How to create a timer
- How to programmatically animate
- How to use 3-D effects
- How to slide a control in and out of view
- How to fade a control in and out
- How to spin a control
- How to shake a control
- How to zoom in a control
- How to zoom out a control
- How to flip a control
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HTML Bridge |
- How to pass values to/from Silverlight and host (asp.net/javascript) page
- How to call JavaScript functions from Silverlight.
- How to invoke Silverlight code from an HTML page event.
- How to call Silverlight managed types from JavaScript.
- How to programmatically alter/affect Silverlight managed types from JavaScript.
- How to pass a Silverlight managed type to a JavaScript function.
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Layout |
- How to use the Canvas control
- How to use the Grid control
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Local Resources |
- How to Perform Isolated Storage Tasks
- How to Access the Clipboard
- How to Access Files
- How to Store and Retrieve Application Settings Using Isolated Storage Core
- How to Print
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Localization |
- How to Make XAML Content Localizable
- How to Combine Localizable Strings at Run Time
- How to Make Rich Text Strings Localizable
- How to Make Non-String Values Localizable
- How to Make Non-Dependency Properties Localizable
- How to Make Properties Localizable with Static Resources
- How to Localize Information About an Out-of-Browser Application
- How to Create a Build that Targets a Specific Culture
- How to Implement Right-to-Left Support
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Model, View, ViewModel pattern (MVVM) |
- How to implement a ViewModel
- How to minimize the view’s code behind and why
- How to use a view model (MVVM) for data binding
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Navigation |
- How to implement navigation from page to page
- How to implement deep linking in Silverlight
- How to create a loading splash screen
- How to implement a custom pop up window
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Networking / Communication |
- How to get and set cookies
- How to access web services from Silverlight
- How to specify browser or client HTTP handling
- How to download content on demand
- How to access a RESTful service
- How to detect changes in network status
- How to serve up a cross domain policy file for a socket application
- How to access a socket server from Silverlight
- How to implement HTTPS
- How to use a dispatcher for cross thread access
- How to communicate to multiple, isolated Silverlight applications on a page
- How to configure and deploy a cross domain policy file
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Out-of-Browser |
- How to run under elevated privileges
- How to Configure an Application for Out-of-Browser Support
- How to Customize Window Chrome for Out-of-Browser Applications
- How to Implement Offline Support for Out-of-Browser Applications
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Performance |
- How to use a background worker
- How to synchronize data for multi-threading
- How to build an app for lazy initialization
- How to use hardware acceleration
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Project |
- How to create a Silverlight project
- How to structure a Silverlight project
- How to change your global error handler
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Styles and Templates |
- How to set up a style for a button
- How to reuse a style or template across a control, page or application
- How to share a style throughout your entire Silverlight application
- How to use multiple resource files
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Text and Rich Text |
- How to render rich text.
- How to export rich text.
- How to accept text input and save as rich text.
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Unit Testing |
- How to Unit Test Silverlight Applications and Assemblies.
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User Controls |
- How to create a user control.
- How to add a user control to your application.
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Video and Audio |
- How to play an MP3 from Silverlight
- How to handle MediaElement states
- How to play streaming media
- How to manage digital rights
- How to continuously play an MP3 from Silverlight
- How to access a webcam
- How to access a microphone
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Visual States |
- How to use visual states to control dynamic UI
- How to use visual state groups and combination of groups
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WCF RIA Services |
- How to use the Silverlight Business Application template
- How to create a RIA Services class library
- How to deploy a WCF RIA Solution
- How to create unit tests for the middle tier
- How to add/remove a RIA Services link
- How to share code between a server (web) and client (Silverlight) application
- How to share Data Annotations between a server (web) and client (Silverlight) application
- How to configure services for different environments such as QA and Production
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XAML |
- How to use namespaces and aliases.
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