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New controls in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 runtime and SDK introduce many new controls. Some of these controls were previously...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 07/21/2009

F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here's a workaround

Unfortunately, the web service that underlies the F1 behavior in Visual Studio is flawed....

Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 07/20/2009

Silverlight 3 has Released!

WHOOT! Here's some links to get you synced up: - Scott Guthrie's Silverilght 3 kick off...

Author: snoutholder Date: 07/10/2009

Silverlight Hardware Acceleration

Caching visual elements as bitmaps allows you to take advantage of hardware accelaration. Once an...

Author: snoutholder Date: 07/09/2009

Silverlight Plug-in Error Messages

This topic lists the error messages that come from the native code implementation of the Silverlight...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 07/08/2009

LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight

Today, July 7th, 10AM PT, 1PM ET – We are broadcasting the Michael Jackson memorial, live in HD from...

Author: JGalasyn Date: 07/07/2009

Breaking Changes Document Errata (Silverlight 3)

This blog post lists additions and corrections to the Silverlight 3 Breaking Changes document. Like...

Author: snoutholder Date: 06/30/2009

Silverlight 3 Bugs

Below is a list of Silverlight 3 bugs you might run into. The plan is for at least most of these to...

Author: snoutholder Date: 06/04/2009

New animation API for Silverlight (Easing Functions)

Easing functions allow you to apply custom mathematical formulas to your animations. For example,...

Author: snoutholder Date: 05/07/2009

Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

Here's a link to a silverlight video player with all the basic features like progress/seek slider,...

Author: snoutholder Date: 05/04/2009

Silverlight Installation Experience whitepaper and sample code released

The Silverlight project templates in Visual Studio and other tools (such as Expression Blend)...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/15/2009

Peeps love Silverlight too!

Okay—this entry is strictly for laughs so I apologize to anyone expecting some code examples or...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 04/14/2009

Search problems with the Silverlight 3 beta documentation

If you have used the Silverlight 3 beta documentation on MSDN, you might have noticed that none of...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/13/2009

Drop shadow and blur effects in Silverlight 3 Beta

You can add drop shadows or blur effects to your objects very easily in Silverlight 3 Beta. Check...

Author: snoutholder Date: 04/09/2009

Silverlight Toolkit themes make it easy to create apps with a designer look

I’ve gotten some feedback from customers that they have pressure from their management to create...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 04/09/2009

The Silverlight Documentation Sample Browser

The Silverlight 2 documentation includes many live samples. However, you can access these samples...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/02/2009

The Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit

The Silverlight product team has just release some additional material for advertisers: the...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 04/02/2009

Silverlight 3D Overview

Applying simple 3D effects (a.k.a. perspective transforms) to objects in your Silverlight 3 Beta...

Author: snoutholder Date: 04/01/2009

Silverlight + MySpace = WayCool!

Today MySpace announced support for Silverlight on their Open Platform. Yes, you can start...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 03/31/2009

Silverlight 3 Beta Offline MSDN docs (CHM) is available

You can get the MSDN offline docs here. The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the...

Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight 3 Beta Bugs

Below is a list of Silverlight 3 Beta bugs you might run into. The plan is for at least most of...

Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight 3 Beta Released!

A developer-only release of Silverlight 3 Beta has been released. Check out Welcome to Silverlight 3...

Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight 3 Beta Breaking Changes Corrections/Additions

No corrections at this time for the Breaking Changes document. On a related subject, you can see a...

Author: snoutholder Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight 3 Beta Bugs

Below is a list of Silverlight 3 Beta bugs you might run into. The plan is for at least most of...

Author: snoutholder Date: 03/17/2009

What doc set am I in?

We can tell based on some of the feedback we've received, that folks are landing in the wrong...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 02/11/2009

SoThink Quicker for Silverlight!

SoThink Quicker is a Silverlight Animation tool created by SourceTec Software Co. You can use...

Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 01/11/2009

Source code for the Silverlight controls? You betcha!

It's a new year here at Microsoft and we've published the source code for the Silverlight runtime...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 01/08/2009

Accelerating and decelerating animations (silverlight keyspline sample)

You can create more realistic animation effects like acceleration and deceleration in Silverlight...

Author: snoutholder Date: 01/02/2009

Advertising with Silverlight

If you are interested in using Silverlight for advertising, check out the Silverlight Ad Publishing...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 12/11/2008

Where did my ComboBox selected item go?

You might have noticed that sometimes the item in the selection box of a combo box disappears when...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 12/02/2008

Silverlight Offline documentation as up to date as the web?

The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation has been updated. There isn't a ton of new content in here...

Author: snoutholder Date: 12/01/2008

Accessing .chm files in Vista

The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 11/25/2008

Silverlight design time extensibility

Justin Angel has an exhaustive blog post on Silverlight design time extensibility. You can get it...

Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 11/24/2008

Silverlight Tools for VS and F1 Help

If you've installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing...

Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/22/2008

Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom

I’m posting this because the documentation on ViewportOrigin is wrong and it might be a while before...

Author: snoutholder Date: 11/18/2008

Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

There seems to be a fair amount of misunderstanding about windowless mode, and the current...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 11/12/2008

WCF, HTTP, Security and Data Service topics for Silverlight

Our team has been watching the forums and there are a lot of questions regarding using Silverlight...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 11/11/2008

WPF Designer Hotfix posted

The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in...

Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/10/2008

Offline Silverlight Documentation now has Index

The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation now has an index (before it only had a table of contents and...

Author: snoutholder Date: 11/03/2008

Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications

I recently helped Ashish publish a whitepaper on SEO of Silverlight Applications. The paper talks...

Author: Nitya Ravi Date: 10/31/2008

Different kinds of controls you can make in Silverlight

Silverlight 2 gives you the ability to create your own controls. The term custom control has been...

Author: Carole Snyder - MSFT Date: 10/30/2008

Check out the great new Silverlight controls and themes!

I am sure you know that the Silverlight 2 release included new controls such as ComboBox and...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 10/28/2008

List of Silverlight bugs and Workarounds

There are a number of bugs in Silverlight that might give you grief. I've compiled a list of some of...

Author: snoutholder Date: 10/28/2008

Silverlight Bugs and Workarounds

There are a number of bugs in Silverlight and/or in the web browsers which Silverlight is designed...

Author: snoutholder Date: 10/28/2008

Loaded event timing in Silverlight

The FrameworkElement.Loaded event in Silverlight has a timing difference versus the...

Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 10/24/2008

Where is the Silverlight content?

The content is there, but it turns out there is a little problem with filtering when you've...

Author: Cheryl Simmons Date: 10/15/2008

Silverlight Tools versioning

Heads up on a possible version number misunderstanding that has been mentioned a few times already...

Author: Wolf Schmidt - MSFT Date: 10/14/2008

Silverlight 2 is released!

As you may have heard, Silverlight 2 is now live and ready for prime time. Check out the Get Started...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 10/14/2008

Additional Navigation Resources

The following blog posts provide several examples of INavigationContentLoader implementations:...

Author: Karl Erickson Date: 10/13/2008

Make your JavaScript Silverlight applications work with Silverlight 2

In addition to behavior changes between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 release, there were...

Author: snoutholder Date: 10/13/2008

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