This sample illustrates a simple usage of the WebClient and a LINQ query. The WebClient makes requests to an RSS feed from Adobe's kuler API which contains color themes defined by kuler users. The themes are then used to colorize an illustration. Silverlight...

Click on the "Toggle Full Screen" to test this example. "Tile Windows" will layout thumbnails of the windows and clicking on a thumbnail will restore the windows. For this demo a FloatingWindow class has been created which inherits from UserControl...

A scale 9 image divides an image into 9 regions which each scale differently when an image is scaled. Click on the "Toggle Full Screen" to try the example. Drag the white square with a red border to resize the shape. Take the following bitmap for example...

This code sample demonstrates an animation helper class to wrap up the code needed to animate a FrameworkElement's properties. This will work if the property is a double as well all of the object's transform properties. User defined dependency properties...

I have taken the project from the previous post and extended the effect class to support an Inner Glow. The basic difference between the composition of the Inner Glow and the previous effects is that the gradients are reversed and the z index is changed...

A configurable shadow effect can be achieved for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 with the use of the Grid control and gradient fills. This will work for rectangular and rounded rectangular content. The code is built off of the previous glow effect post. The ShadowBox...

A configurable glow effect can be achieved for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 with the use of the Grid control and gradient fills. This will achieve the effect for rectangular and rounded rectangular controls. The GlowBox control is composed of a Canvas containing...