The Silverlight project templates in Visual Studio and other tools (such as Expression Blend) provide a default experience for users who do not have Silverlight installed. However, the current default experience is not very enticing: Unless you modify...

Okay—this entry is strictly for laughs so I apologize to anyone expecting some code examples or useful tips or tricks. Yesterday, my coworker Margaret and I took 2nd place in a little Peeps art contest held here at work. I thought you might enjoy pictures...

If you have used the Silverlight 3 beta documentation on MSDN, you might have noticed that none of the new topics or APIs appear in search results, regardless of whether you are searching with MSDN or another search engine. This is intentional - none...

You can add drop shadows or blur effects to your objects very easily in Silverlight 3 Beta. Check out DropShadowEffect and BlurEffect . In these API reference there is code showing how to create the effects using XAML or proceedural code as well as a...

I’ve gotten some feedback from customers that they have pressure from their management to create Silverlight apps that look very visually appealing, but these customers, who are primarily developers, lack the tools, design skills or time to put together...

The Silverlight 2 documentation includes many live samples. However, you can access these samples only from a topic with a "run this sample" link. The best way to find the samples in the Silverlight 2 documentation is to do a search on "run this sample...

The Silverlight product team has just release some additional material for advertisers: the Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit . This download includes a whitepaper and samples that describe and demonstrate several aspects of creating ads using Silverlight...

Applying simple 3D effects (a.k.a. perspective transforms) to objects in your Silverlight 3 Beta application is easy. Currently there are no meshes to define, no camera, none of that "3D engine" stuff-- just 12 properties of the PlaneProjection that you...