Silverlight SDK

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

Here are some of the steps required to convert an existing WPF/E version of this application to a Silverlight 1.0 Beta scripting application. The "Coco's Dress Up Kit" sample, which illustrates the use of drag and drop, is used as an conversion example. Read More...