Silverlight and Windows Phone SDK
New controls in Silverlight 3
Silverlight 3 runtime and SDK introduce many new controls. Some of these controls were previously...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 07/21/2009
F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround
Unfortunately, the web service that underlies the F1 behavior in Visual Studio is flawed....
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 07/20/2009
Silverlight 3 has Released!
WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Scott Guthrie's Silverilght 3 kick off...
Author: snoutholder Date: 07/10/2009
Silverlight Hardware Acceleration
Caching visual elements as bitmaps allows you to take advantage of hardware accelaration. Once an...
Author: snoutholder Date: 07/09/2009
Silverlight Plug-in Error Messages
This topic lists the error messages that come from the native code implementation of the Silverlight...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 07/08/2009
LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
Today, July 7th, 10AM PT, 1PM ET – We are broadcasting the Michael Jackson memorial, live in HD from...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 07/07/2009
Breaking Changes Document Errata (Silverlight 3)
This blog post lists additions and corrections to the Silverlight 3 Breaking Changes document. Like...
Author: snoutholder Date: 06/30/2009
Silverlight 3 Bugs
Below is a list of Silverlight 3 bugs you might run into. The plan is for at least most of these to...
Author: snoutholder Date: 06/04/2009
New animation API for Silverlight (Easing Functions)
Easing functions allow you to apply custom mathematical formulas to your animations. For example,...
Author: snoutholder Date: 05/07/2009
Silverlight Video Player with Source Code
Here's a link to a silverlight video player with all the basic features like progress/seek slider,...
Author: snoutholder Date: 05/04/2009
Silverlight Installation Experience whitepaper and sample code released
The Silverlight project templates in Visual Studio and other tools (such as Expression Blend)...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/15/2009
Peeps love Silverlight too!
Okay—this entry is strictly for laughs so I apologize to anyone expecting some code examples or...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 04/14/2009
Search problems with the Silverlight 3 beta documentation
If you have used the Silverlight 3 beta documentation on MSDN, you might have noticed that none of...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/13/2009
Drop shadow and blur effects in Silverlight 3 Beta
You can add drop shadows or blur effects to your objects very easily in Silverlight 3 Beta. Check...
Author: snoutholder Date: 04/09/2009
Silverlight Toolkit themes make it easy to create apps with a designer look
I’ve gotten some feedback from customers that they have pressure from their management to create...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 04/09/2009
The Silverlight Documentation Sample Browser
The Silverlight 2 documentation includes many live samples. However, you can access these samples...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/02/2009
The Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit
The Silverlight product team has just release some additional material for advertisers: the...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/02/2009
Silverlight 3D Overview
Applying simple 3D effects (a.k.a. perspective transforms) to objects in your Silverlight 3 Beta...
Author: snoutholder Date: 04/01/2009
Silverlight + MySpace = WayCool!
Today MySpace announced support for Silverlight on their Open Platform. Yes, you can start...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 03/31/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta Offline MSDN docs (CHM) is available
You can get the MSDN offline docs here. The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the...
Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta Bugs
Below is a list of Silverlight 3 Beta bugs you might run into. The plan is for at least most of...
Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta Released!
A developer-only release of Silverlight 3 Beta has been released. Check out Welcome to Silverlight 3...
Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta Breaking Changes Corrections/Additions
No corrections at this time for the Breaking Changes document. On a related subject, you can see a...
Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta Bugs
Below is a list of Silverlight 3 Beta bugs you might run into. The plan is for at least most of...
Author: snoutholder Date: 03/17/2009
What doc set am I in?
We can tell based on some of the feedback we've received, that folks are landing in the wrong...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 02/11/2009
SoThink Quicker for Silverlight!
SoThink Quicker is a Silverlight Animation tool created by SourceTec Software Co. You can use...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 01/11/2009
Source code for the Silverlight controls? You betcha!
It's a new year here at Microsoft and we've published the source code for the Silverlight runtime...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 01/08/2009
Accelerating and decelerating animations (silverlight keyspline sample)
You can create more realistic animation effects like acceleration and deceleration in Silverlight...
Author: snoutholder Date: 01/02/2009
Advertising with Silverlight
If you are interested in using Silverlight for advertising, check out the Silverlight Ad Publishing...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 12/11/2008
Where did my ComboBox selected item go?
You might have noticed that sometimes the item in the selection box of a combo box disappears when...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 12/02/2008
Silverlight Offline documentation as up to date as the web?
The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation has been updated. There isn't a ton of new content in here...
Author: snoutholder Date: 12/01/2008
Accessing .chm files in Vista
The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 11/25/2008
Silverlight design time extensibility
Justin Angel has an exhaustive blog post on Silverlight design time extensibility. You can get it...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 11/24/2008
Silverlight Tools for VS and F1 Help
If you've installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/22/2008
Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom
I’m posting this because the documentation on ViewportOrigin is wrong and it might be a while before...
Author: snoutholder Date: 11/18/2008
Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight
There seems to be a fair amount of misunderstanding about windowless mode, and the current...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 11/12/2008
WCF, HTTP, Security and Data Service topics for Silverlight
Our team has been watching the forums and there are a lot of questions regarding using Silverlight...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 11/11/2008
WPF Designer Hotfix posted
The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/10/2008
Offline Silverlight Documentation now has Index
The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation now has an index (before it only had a table of contents and...
Author: snoutholder Date: 11/03/2008
Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications
I recently helped Ashish publish a whitepaper on SEO of Silverlight Applications. The paper talks...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 10/31/2008
Different kinds of controls you can make in Silverlight
Silverlight 2 gives you the ability to create your own controls. The term custom control has been...
Author: Carole Snyder - MSFT Date: 10/30/2008
Check out the great new Silverlight controls and themes!
I am sure you know that the Silverlight 2 release included new controls such as ComboBox and...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 10/28/2008
List of Silverlight bugs and Workarounds
There are a number of bugs in Silverlight that might give you grief. I've compiled a list of some of...
Author: snoutholder Date: 10/28/2008
Silverlight Bugs and Workarounds
There are a number of bugs in Silverlight and/or in the web browsers which Silverlight is designed...
Author: snoutholder Date: 10/28/2008
Loaded event timing in Silverlight
The FrameworkElement.Loaded event in Silverlight has a timing difference versus the...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 10/24/2008
Where is the Silverlight content?
The content is there, but it turns out there is a little problem with filtering when you've...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 10/15/2008
Silverlight Tools versioning
Heads up on a possible version number misunderstanding that has been mentioned a few times already...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 10/14/2008
Silverlight 2 is released!
As you may have heard, Silverlight 2 is now live and ready for prime time. Check out the Get Started...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 10/14/2008
Additional Navigation Resources
The following blog posts provide several examples of INavigationContentLoader implementations:...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 10/13/2008
Make your JavaScript Silverlight applications work with Silverlight 2
In addition to behavior changes between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 release, there were...
Author: snoutholder Date: 10/13/2008