Silverlight Tips of the Day

Silverlight Tip of the Day #29: Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners

For this tutorial we will step you through the basics of what you need to do to create a dialog that you can: Drag/drop. Add transparency (opacity) to. Round the corners. To preview and run this application please visit this link: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Border%20Demo/iframe.html Read More...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #28: How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor

In Tip of the Day #27 we talked about how to change the mouse cursor. But what if you want to have a cursor icon that is not supported by Silverlight? This tutorial will show you how to do it. For a complete demo of this tip visit: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20Cursor%20Demo/iframe.html Read More...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #27: How to Change the Mouse Cursor

Let’s say you want to change the mouse cursor when hovering over a UI element. You can do this directly in the XAML by setting the Cursor property. For example, if you want to change the cursor to be the Hand     cursor when hovering over Read More...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #26: How to Change the Output XAP File Name.

Don’t like the default name given to your XAP file? Good news! You can change it but there are two steps you will need to take. Step #1. Right click on your Silverlight application node in the solutions explorer and choose “Properties”.    Choose Read More...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #25: How to Build the XAP File to the Debug/Release Folders

By default when you build your Silverlight application you will notice the XAP file is placed in your web sites ClientBin folder: This is regardless of whether you are building under Debug or Release configurations. In Visual Studio 2008 you can choose Read More...