I've recently taken over the documentation for some of the Silverlight controls, and one of the controls I now own is Popup. One of the first things I do when preparing to document a control is play around with it in code. Using the Popup control is pretty...

Deep Zoom which is a technology that combines Silverlight with SeaDragon is a powerful and easy way to impliment zooming and panning large images. Below are a few examples. Exploration of Very Large or High Resolution Images with Great Performance...

The WebClient and HttpWebRequest classes can both be used for retrieving data from a Web service. WebClient is most useful for one-time retrieval of data from a Web service, or downloading remote resources (for more information on this see, "Downloading...

I've spent time the last couple weeks trying to figure out how to create my own panel. At first I was completely confused and it seemed like I would change something small and the entire layout of my panel would radically shift. But after stumbling around...

Ever wonder how the MSDN documentation gets written? Who are these people? What do they do? Where do they come from? Here are the answers to a few of those questions as I blog about a random day as a writer on the Silverlight User Education team. ...