Using playlists in Silverlight is extremely easy. Silverlight supports the use of playlists through ASX files. An ASX file is simply an XML file that specifies the media files in the playlist. Playlists provide, among other things, a central entry point for a group of media. ...

Popfly, which requires Silverlight 1.0 Beta, provides a PageTurner block that allows you to easily create a photo album in which you use the mouse to turn the pages. No programming is involved. The "Coco's Day in the Snow" sample uses the PageTurner block....

Popfly, which requires Silverlight 1.0 Beta, is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly was released May 18th as a private Alpha release....

Silverlight Pad is a Silverlight 1.0 Beta application that gives you a simple way to experiment with creating XAML content--the XAML you enter can be instantly rendered as Silverlight content. You can run the application online, or download it....

Animation is very useful in creating graphically rich Silverlight applications. This posting illustrates the use of several types of animation in Silverlight, including key frames and splines, in order to simulate a bouncing ball....

This posting illustrates the use of opacity in a Microsoft Virtual Earth/Silverlight mashup that allows you to display selected landmarks in New York City....

Synchronous method calls in Silverlight scripting applications can be placed in a try/catch block to handle errors thrown by the called method. Here's a short function you can use get consistent error message regardless of which browsers your application is running in. ...

The Downloader object is a special-purpose Silverlight object that provides the ability to download application data, including fonts. You can download either a single font, or a collection of fonts in a Zip file....

The Silverlight 1.0 Beta introduces a number of new features, such as inking and video brushes, as well as additional functionality to existing features. To help sort out what is new in Silverlight, the SDK offers many new and revised conceptual topics....