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Skin your Silverlight 3 app with Implicit Style Manager
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:41 PM
Silverlight 3 do not have implicit style like WPF or a Theming feature like ASP.NET which means you can’t [automatically] apply a Style to every Button of the app like in ASP.NET for example. In Silverlight 3 you need to explicitly set styles on every... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Update Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight apps
Monday, November 02, 2009 8:36 PM
Once your Silverlight application installed on the local computer what happens if there is an update ? The local application is not updated automatically but you can check that in your code. The CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync() method downloads the updated... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Debug Out Of Browser (OOB) Silverlight apps
Monday, November 02, 2009 7:11 PM
An installed (OOB) Silverlight application is supposed to run the same as in browser, but sometimes you might want to debug it. First you could attach VS to the sllauncher.exe process, but there is easier: Run your application in the browser and install... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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BulletedList in Silverlight
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:32 PM
Today I wanted to add a bulleted list of text items in a xaml page, as there is no BulletedList control in Silverlight, you have to do it yourself. But I don’t need a databound list, just something simple in a TextBlock, so here is what I ended with,... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Tutorial: create a custom Silverlight Splash Screen
Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:03 PM
The first time a user visit the page which holds your Silverlight app, the browser needs to download the XAP file first, but sometimes this file can become large, so Silverlight automatically displays its default “loading screen”, also called a “Splash... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Migrate from Silverlight 2 to 3
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:02 PM
Just a quick note on this as I still found people stuck with this error: Error: Unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application Code: 2106    Category: InitializeError       Message: Failed to load the application... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Silverlight EnableFramerateCounter parameter
Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:09 PM
EnableFramerateCounter is a parameter you can activate on the Silverlight Plug-in object. (For a comprehensive list of Silverlight param, see my previous post ). This boolean value indicates whether to display in the hosting browser's status bar the current... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Provide startup parameters to Silverlight with InitParams
Friday, August 14, 2009 10:07 PM
I have been giving Silverlight trainings for a while now, and I found this to be a little known feature: the ability to provide Silverlight startup parameters with InitParams .   Pass startup parameters to your Silverlight app You pass the parameters... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Silverlight – Get Color from Hex
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:12 PM
What if you want to get a Color from its hexa value (#FFBBCC88) ? Unfortunately Silverlight do not have the ColorTranslator class which allows you to do ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FF1133") in ASP.NET. What we have is the Color.FromArgb() method... Read More...
by Laurent Duveau : Silverlight
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Silverlight Visual Tree Investigation
Monday, July 07, 2008 3:44 AM
Wait a moment. Silverlight has Visual and Logical Trees as well as WPF? Not exactly. The design more similar to how it was in WinForms (Parent-Child relationship). But dev team made all possible to make it syntactically similar to WPF. Let’s start Challenge... Read More...
by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight
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How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?
Monday, June 23, 2008 5:37 PM
The challenge today is really simple. All we have to do is to write Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadget, that consumes either WCF, ASMX or REST based service. Really simple, isn’t it? Let’s start Build server side services We should start from services... Read More...
by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight
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