Radial Layout in Silverlight
Last week I found myself needing a Silverlight layout control that arranges its items radially so I could use it to template a ListBox. A quick Web search revealed a […]
More on Silverlight 3’s Navigation Framework
A few weeks ago, I blogged about a sample application I wrote that uses Silverlight 3’s WriteableBitmap class to draw views of the Mandelbrot set. I hadn’t used it long before I realized that […]
Silverlight 3’s New Child Windows
If you’ve worked with Silverlight 3, you may have noticed that Visual Studio’s Add New Item dialog includes an option for adding a “Silverlight Child Window” to your Silverlight project: […]
Silverlight 3’s New Style Enhancements
If I had a dollar for every time a developer has said to me “You mean a style can only be applied to an object once in Silverlight? How brain […]
Silverlight 3’s New Navigation Framework
One of Silverlight 3’s prominent new features is its built-in navigation framework. This framework allows you to break your content into navigable chunks, or “pages,” that derive from the new […]
Silverlight 3’s New Assembly Caching
One of the overarching goals when designing a Silverlight application is to minimize the size of the XAP file. The smaller the XAP file, the faster the application loads. In Silverlight […]
Silverlight 3’s New Out-of-Browser Applications
Silverlight is a browser plug-in that enables browser-based applications to display rich, XAML-based UIs, execute managed code, and leverage the .NET Framework Base Class Library. Thus it may come as a […]
Silverlight 3’s New GPU Acceleration
Another new and notable feature of Silverlight 3 is support for hardware acceleration. In Silverlight 1 and 2, all rendering was done in software, which meant that the performance of […]
Silverlight 3’s New Local Connections
One of the features of Silverlight 3 that developers are going to love is local connections, which enable Silverlight control instances to communicate with each other. Local connections use a […]