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I am proud to announce we have released the official version our Silverlight Tools for Silverlight 2. Prior to this release we had released an RC1 candidate alongside the RTW version of Silverlight. If you have the RC1 or any previous version please upgrade...
Microsoft Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements. This tool is especially great for creating vector based graphics for your elements. If you do not have Expression Designer, check...
In Tip of the Day #23 I showed you how to capture the mouse wheel event. In this tip we will take it one step further by implementing a IMouseWheelObserver interface that your Silverlight elements and controls can inherit from. This way, anytime the mouse...
In Tip of the Day #42 I discussed how to create Silverlight-enabled WCF web service. In this tip I will discuss the steps necessary to take in order to publish and deploy the web service with your Silverlight application on your server. For security reasons...
Recently when deploying a Silverlight application with a web service I forgot to include a client access policy and cross domain file. As a result I got the following exception when attempting to browse to my application: The exception did not make the...
Hyperlinks are a graphic or string that connects readers to another web site when clicked. Generally these are a few words that are identified by a blue color and a underline. Here is an example of a hyperlink: Click Me In Silverlight Hyperlinks can be...
If you have a FrameworkElement such as an Image , Button, TextBlock , etc. you can add a tooltip to the element. Tooltips are usually small, boxed text that popup when a user hovers over the control. The purpose of the tooltip is to tell the user what...
Today I am very proud to announce that Silverlight 2 has been officially released! Grab it today at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted . This is a phenomenal release that provides a powerful solution to creating rich web application. At the link above...
If you have a control written in XAML that is included in your project you can load and create it directly from file by using the method: System.Windows.Markup. XamlReader .Load(). This method can also be used to directly create a Silverlight control...
If you try to use the following characters in a string in XAML you will get a slew of errors in your Error List: < > & “ For example, if you tried to do this: < Button Width ="100" Height ="100" Content ="Click &...
Styles are extremely important because they allow developers to control the look and layout of controls across their application. By using styles you can simply change the style declaration and all controls in the application are updated automatically...
The recent RC0 release of Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio is now compatible with Visual Web Developer Express with SP1 installed! Express is FREE and can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ . This version only supports the...
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...