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The Tree View Control
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Entry Date: Jan 2010
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site: Blogs MSDN
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keywords:Silverlight; VS 2008; Visual Studio 2008; XAML; Silverlight 3.0;
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The Tree View control is ideal for displaying hierarchical data. While there is a great deal you can do with this control, in its simplest form it is fairly straightforward to work with, once you grok the essential recursiveness it demands (well, requests strongly).
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Nice sample about how to bind hierarchical data to a Silverlight Toolkit treeview.
A pity that the sample project is not available for downloading.
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An Excel file Viewer in Silverlight 4
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Entry Date: Jan 2010
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site: Silverlight Show
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keywords:Silverlight; Excel; Silverlight 3.0;
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Let’s imagine a scenario in which you have a series of Excel files (.xlsx) on your computer but you don’t have any Microsoft Office installed. What can we do if we want to examine the content of these files?
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How to read Excel 2007 (xlsx) content in Silverlight, great sample and article.
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Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo
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Entry Date: Jan 2010
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site: John Papa
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keywords:Silverlight; Silverlight 3.0;
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One of the new features of Silverlight 4 Beta is the addition of the IDataErrorInfo interface. In Silverlight 3 we throw exceptions when a property value is invalid. The IDataErrorInfo interface has been around in .NET but is new to Silverlight 4 beta. It allows you to invalidate property values without throwing exceptions.
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Interesting... validation mechanism changes on Silverlight 4, cleaner approach to validate (no more exceptions).
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Simple Silverlight Uploader with Progress Bar using HttpRequest or WCF
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Entry Date: Dec 2009
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site: Integrated Web Systems
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keywords:Silverlight; Web Services; Silverlight 3.0;
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I thought I’d write a little bit about a simple Silverlight file uploader I’ve been playing with. I see a lot of postings out there asking how to do a file uploader that can show upload progress using Silverlight. There are a few issues to overcome like: how to you actually measure progress, and while using the HttpRequest, how do you update the UI from the worker thread? So this project will hopefully answer some of your questions.
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With Silverlight 3 you where able to make a file open dialog, ... now with Silverlight 4 you can even drag and drop files from your desktop... excellent scenario to let the user upload files to the server, but... How to make a nice file uploader?.
Excellent sample implemented in an asynchronous way, it let's you easily notifiy the progress on real time, and do not block the UI thread.
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Work process: How to use and build type converters
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Entry Date: Dec 2009
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site: Khason.net
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML;
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TypeConverter is a service attribute, used to help rendering engine to convert XAML string (usually it strings) to the type, you require in your class implementation.
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Quite useful, when you define dependency propertyies based on enums, you won't be able to define them in a declarative way, ... you will need to define a typeconverter to convert them from string to enum.
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Silverlight 3's New Client Networking Stack
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Entry Date: Dec 2009
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site: Wintellect
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keywords:Silverlight; Silverlight 3.0;
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One of the most useful yet little-known new features of Silverlight 3 is one that has nothing to do with UIs: a brand new networking stack called the client HTTP stack, the client networking stack, or simply the client stack.
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Quite useful to get detailed error description, when your service calls fails, instead of getting the nasty "not found" you will get all the exception info.
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Silverlight Custom Content Control
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Entry Date: Dec 2009
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site: mostly Developers
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keywords:Silverlight; Silverlight 3.0;
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As a Silverlight control developer, you may encounter a need to create a custom content control. This type of control allows the consumers to place anything they want in certain areas of your control. In Silverlight, you may have noticed that the Button control has a content property. You can essentially put anything you want in a button. I’m going to show you how you can create a control to do this.
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Great post, how to create custom controls and let the parent how instantiate the control to add content templates.
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Silverlight Tip of the Day #39 – How to Create a Zoom Toolbar
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Entry Date: Dec 2009
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site: Silverlight
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML;
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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.
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Nice effect (zooming on toolbar icon including smooth animation) and easy to follow step by step implementation.
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Silverlight From Zero
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Entry Date: Nov 2009
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site: Blogs MSDN
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML; Silverlight 3.0;
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This is the first of a series of blog posts directed at folks who are new to Silverlight and/or want to brush up on the fundamentals. It will consist of mini-tutorials on topics I think need more coverage, and links to existing mini-tutorials, tutorials and videos. We begin… at the beginning.
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New to Silverlight? Need a very start guide, something that assumes you are completely a new comer... here is your start point.
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Customizing a ToolTip
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Entry Date: Oct 2009
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site: Blogs MSDN
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML;
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oolTips are quite useful for for displaying helpful information when the user hovers over a control. The way that ToolTips are usually used is by setting the ToolTipService.ToolTip property to some text. This will display the text in a rather bland rectangle, without wrapping. Here are some ways to make your ToolTips more useful and nicer looking.
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If you have a long tooltip text in Silverlight it won't break it... ugly stuff, ... good news is that you can customize it and add a textblock including a wrap text.
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Debugging Silverlight in a Web Role on the Development Fabric
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Entry Date: Oct 2009
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site: Blogs MSDN
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keywords:Silverlight; XAML; Silverlight 3.0;
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As part of the announcement of the January 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools was "Added support to debug Silverlight in a Web Role".
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Nice intro about how to combina Silverlight with Azure.
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