By Mark Latchey, on August 8th, 2011%
Prologue:
In this article we will discuss how to handle a double-click in Silverlight 5. Handling double-click is a new feature in Silverlight 5.
Silverlight 5 has introduced the concept of a click count. Rather than create dedicated double, triple, or multiple click events, you can simply count the number of clicks using the ClickCount property of the MouseButtonEventArgs . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: How to Handle Double-Click in Silverlight 5
By Mark Latchey, on June 29th, 2011%
Often you’ll want to pass selected values from one page in a Silverlight 4 application to another.
Query Strings are a valid approach, but you might want to pass more than simple strings or IDs in the URL.
This quick walkthrough will show you to use access a simple static variable from one page, on another. This could . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Passing Values between Pages in a Silverlight 4 Navigation Application
By Mark Latchey, on June 23rd, 2011%
In this post I will show you how to create the custom splash screen for your Silverlight application. You have seen many software which use nice splash screen during loading of the software applications like Microsoft office, excel and many others. I have also created splash screen for my desktop applications which I have developed during . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Splash Screen in Silverlight 4
By Mark Latchey, on June 8th, 2011%
Silverlight is alive and well, just check out some of the cool new features in the next version
Better parity with WPF like markup extension and relative source bindings
Breakpoint in XAML (Hope this will also be available in WPF?)
Binding in style setters (Very cool)
Cool layout transitions
Loads of text & printing enhancements
Let me just say this again: BREAKPOINTS . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Silverlight 5 Cool Features
By Mark Latchey, on May 30th, 2011%
With Silverlight 4 came implicit styles. With Silverlight 5 comes implicit DataTemplates. Implicit DataTemplates allow DataTemplates for ContentPresenters to be selected based upon the type of . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: ImplicitDataTemplates in Silverlight 5
By Landon Ferguson, on May 18th, 2011%
Double-click isn’t as popular a mouse action as it once was. For many, especially the elderly, clicking twice in the same spot without moving the mouse in between, is actually quite challenging. Nevertheless, double-click (and even triple click in some specialized programs in 3d and music) is a . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Supporting Double and Even Triple Click for the Mouse
By Mark Latchey, on May 11th, 2011%
Silverlight 5, the latest version of Microsoft’s rich internet media platform and framework is now available in beta for interested users to download and test . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Silverlight 5 launches in beta
By Landon Ferguson, on April 28th, 2011%
Introduction
This article will talk about 4 simple steps which will assist you to consume WCF service in a Silverlight application. It also has a simple sample source code which demonstrates all the 4 . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: How to Consume WCF Service in a Silverlight Application
By Landon Ferguson, on April 21st, 2011%
Silverlight is great. Silverlight 4 is extra great. If you know a little bit about WPF and a handful about the ViewModel Pattern, you’re in great shape. If you’re like me, you tend to mock up your user interfaces and user interface functionality using only client-side functionality before you start to make calls back to the . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Silverlight 4 Synchronous WCF Service Calls (or “How to avoid writing a 1-tier Silverlight App”)
By Mark Latchey, on April 16th, 2011%
This section will provide a step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a new RIA services project using a shared DLL for server side code and a simple Entity Framework model for data access. All projects are created with the consistent ArchitectNow.RIAServices filename prefix and default namespace. This would be modified to match your companies standards.
- First, open . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Setting up a new Silverlight 4 Project with WCF RIA Services