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Let’s say a user clicks on a button and you want to popup a separate browser and point them to a specific web page. How do you do this in Silverlight? Silverlight now supports a method called HtmlPage .PopupWindow(). For security reasons this call can...
With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there are three new controls we will be discussing that were not available for beta 2. The three new controls with a Tip of the Day for each include: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox For this tip we will be exploring...
With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there are three new controls we will be discussing that were not available for beta 2. The three new controls with a Tip of the Day for each include: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox For this tip we will be exploring...
With the release of Silverlight 2 RC0 there are three new controls we will be discussing that were not available for beta 2. The three new controls with a Tip of the Day for each include: ProgressBar ComboxBox PasswordBox For this tip we will be exploring...
Default Fonts By Default, Silverlight supports the following local fonts (as shown rendered in Silverlight): You can also choose from a long list of East Asian fonts if they are available on your local computer: Batang BatangChe DFKai-SB Dotum...
Silverlight comes with a very useful control called TextBlock . This control allows you to render read only text. Displaying text via this control is as easy as: < TextBlock Text ="Hello There"></ TextBlock > There are...
In Tip of the Day #42 I talked about how to create and use a web service using WCF for your Silverlight application. For this tip I would like to briefly discuss WCF and some highlights on why you should use it over the traditional ASMX based Web Services...
I am not a big fan of winter, being that summer is my favorite season. However, this morning I woke up and heard it’s going to be snowing in the mountains (Cascades) so it inspired me to have a little premature fun by creating a snowy scene in Silverlight...
Web services are essentially API’s that can be accessed over a network such as the Internet. Due to security Silverlight restricts a lot of important features such as saving to the disk. However, you can get around these restrictions by making calls to...
Bookmarks are very useful in web sites because they allow people to directly navigate back to a section of the web site they visited before. This tip will show you how to apply and use bookmarks in Silverlight applications. For example, if a user types...
The other day I found a bug in one of my Silverlight applications that was doing floating point comparisons. In my animation of an image I was increasing the ScaleTransform .ScaleX by “0.05” from “0.0” to “2.0 and checking to see when my ScaleTransform...
Effects applied to toolbars are raising in popularity especially the zoom effect. For the purpose of this tip, I have created my own implementation of the zoom effect when applied to a toolbar. To preview the demo visit this link: http://silverlight.services...
If a user visits your Silverlight site without Silverlight installed they will automatically see the following image: While this is a clear message you may want to consider a better, more customizable experience for your web site that includes your web...
Up to now we have been statically declaring our Silverlight application in our web page ASPX file directly like this: < body style =" height : 100% ; margin : 0 ; "> < form id ="form1" runat ="server"...
Reflections are a cool effect you can apply to images and text elements through the use of RenderTransforms. For example, take a look at this screen shot below of reflections which were rendered using Silverlight. The first reflection is done on a TextBlock...
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