Silverlight and Windows Phone SDK
Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 3 MSDN documentation are combined
There is quite a bit of overlap between developing for Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 and so in...
Author: snoutholder Date: 08/23/2010
Early look at the Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone
Check out Jeff Wilcox's blog for a great post introducing the Panorama and Pivot controls for...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 08/17/2010
View local (offline) help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension
Although I am involved with content creation (meaning I write the stuff) and not the actual...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 07/27/2010
Great tips for migrating your Windows phone apps from April CTP to Beta...
I've recently been working on a Windows Phone 7 application, and got thrown a small setback with the...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 07/14/2010
Silverlight 4 MSDN Offline and Online Docs Updated
Just uploaded new versions of offline and online MSDN documentation. The offline CHM is great for...
Author: snoutholder Date: 07/13/2010
Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released!
Its time to start building more applications and games for Windows Phone 7. Developer tools beta for...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 07/13/2010
Silverlight Output Protection
[Post Updated] The Silverlight Output Protection information that used to be in this blog post has...
Author: snoutholder Date: 07/09/2010
Now children, is all that Name-calling really necessary? Using FrameworkElement.Name at runtime
Answering a recent silverlight.net forum question got me thinking again about how we've documented...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 07/08/2010
Silverlight is the way to go...
Okay, I am totally biased toward Silverlight; I could tell you a million reasons why you should be...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 07/07/2010
How To Programmatically Dismiss the SIP (keyboard) in Silverlight applications for Windows Phone
I've been creating some Silverlight applications for Windows Phone lately and I've run into a few...
Author: bcl1 Date: 07/02/2010
Getting Started with Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7
I’ve gotten the Windows Phone App fever. The past few days I’ve been creating my first...
Author: bcl1 Date: 06/29/2010
Get Started with Silverlight (New QuickStart Articles)
Are you new to Silverlight or want to send your newbie friends somewhere to get started? Or maybe...
Author: snoutholder Date: 06/22/2010
Creating a Custom Out-of-Browser Window in Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 extends the out-of-browser feature to include support for window customization through...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 05/23/2010
Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio released!
Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio released! You can now download the RTM version of Silverlight...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 05/18/2010
Changing the watermark text in a DatePicker control
Someone recently asked about how to change the watermark text in a DatePicker control. Here’s a...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 05/06/2010
Power tool brings back index to offline help!
If you've used the new offline help viewer, you may have noticed the index is missing. I personally...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 05/05/2010
Silverlight Designer Support in VS 2010
Visual Studio 2010 is a huge release in terms of designer support for Silverlight and WPF. You can...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 04/30/2010
Finding the "real" templates and generic.xaml in Silverlight core or library assemblies, by using .NET Reflector
.NET Reflector is a great tool. I would wager that most of our loyal readers (all 6 of them ;-) )...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 04/27/2010
Silverlight 4 Released
Here's some links to get you going:- Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime, tutorials, other...
Author: snoutholder Date: 04/15/2010
Silverlight 4 Documentation on MSDN, and Favorites/bookmarks
The MSDN Online documentation for Silverlight 4 is now live:...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 04/15/2010
Some Notes on DRM in Silverlight 4
Silverlight enables a number of online and offline media playback scenarios which can utilize DRM...
Author: bcl1 Date: 04/15/2010
SLLauncher Error Messages
Silverlight uses the sllauncher.exe tool to install, run, and uninstall out-of-browser applications....
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/09/2010
A One-stop Shopping XAML Namespace for Silverlight Client SDK Controls
A feature that was added to Silverlight 4 that hasn't garnered much attention so far is the sdk:...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 03/23/2010
Changing Templates with the Silverlight Designer (and seeing the changes immediately)
Lately I’ve been writing some topics on using the Silverlight designer in Visual Studio 2010 RC to...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 03/23/2010
Example Code for Using Webcams in Silverlight 4
XAML <UserControl x:Class="WebcamCapture.MainPage"...
Author: bcl1 Date: 03/17/2010
Using Webcams in Silverlight 4
One of the new features in Silverlight 4 that I’m excited about is the support for webcams and...
Author: bcl1 Date: 03/16/2010
Docs for Silverlight 4 RC now available
See the online MSDN docs or get the Silverlight 4 RC Offline MSDN Documentation CHM. The CHM is nice...
Author: snoutholder Date: 03/15/2010
Avoiding Uninstall/Reinstall when Debugging Out-of-Browser Apps
Every few weeks I muck around with an out-of-browser application with the Silverlight 4 Beta. Every...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 02/18/2010
Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser
The Silverlight SDK sample browser lets you explore all the live samples used by the official...
Author: Karl Erickson Date: 01/18/2010
Angled headers for DataGrid columns…not just angled text…
My last post demonstrated one way that you could angle the text in a DataGrid column header. I...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 01/05/2010
Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text
I recently inherited the DataGrid control and, after reading over customer feedback and forum posts,...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 12/16/2009
Getting started with the charting controls
Recently I thought I would check out the charting controls in the Silverlight Toolkit. I’d been...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 12/07/2009
It's so easy to enable printing from a Silverlight 4 application
I've been a writer with Microsoft for about 5 years now, and I've seen my share of printing API. I...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 12/03/2009
Have you checked out the new RichTextArea control?
Silverlight 4 Beta includes a new RichTextArea control. RichTextArea enables you to display or edit...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 12/02/2009
Silverlight 4 Beta Released!
WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up:- Get Started (e.g. get new tools, SDK, runtime,...
Author: snoutholder Date: 11/18/2009
Breaking Changes Document Errata (Silverlight 4)
No errata at this time.
Author: snoutholder Date: 11/18/2009
Silverlight 4 Beta Offline MSDN docs (CHM) is available
You can get the Silverlight 4 Beta Offline MSDN documentation here. The CHM is nice if you're...
Author: snoutholder Date: 11/18/2009
Silverlight 4 Bugs
Note that I updated this bug for Silverlight 4 bugs. This post used to list Beta bugs. This is a...
Author: snoutholder Date: 11/04/2009
Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign
MSDN recently rolled out new presentation choices for its Library content, which includes the MSDN...
Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 10/29/2009
Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated
We just refreshed the online docs for Silverlight 3. In addition, the offline CHM has been updated....
Author: snoutholder Date: 10/06/2009
Silverlight designer sample code is posted
If you’ve been wishing for some helpful designer gestures for your Silverlight DataGrid controls,...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/24/2009
Bing Visual Search Powered by Silverlight!
Yusuf Mehdi demonstrated Bing's new Silverlight powered Visual Search experience yesterday. Using...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 09/16/2009
Silverlight delivers online viewing experience for Sunday Night Football
The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season by using Silverlight 3.0...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/10/2009
New networking stack in Silverlight 3
In previous versions of Silverlight, the browser handled all the HTTP communication for the...
Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 08/12/2009
Seadragon.Com
Microsoft Live Labs recently released Seadragon.Com. Using Seadragon, you can share any size image...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 08/06/2009
Use Try/Catch Block with Analytics Object (Silverlight 3 bug)
Some folks have found that a small percentage of customer machines are throwing an exception when...
Author: snoutholder Date: 07/27/2009
Expression Blend 3 released!
On July 10th Scott Guthrie and Soma launched Expression Blend 3 and and SketchFlow, and today, the...
Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 07/22/2009
Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released!
Download the MSDN offline docs for Silverlight 3 here. The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's...
Author: snoutholder Date: 07/21/2009