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WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely

An in-depth look at the various text rendering options found in WPF 4 and Silverlight, including many visual comparisons with the results of each option.

MVVM Training

In the Box is a high quality, multi-media training that is consumed within Visual Studio 2010. Content is navigated and delivered using a next generation computer based training (CBT) experience, the Visual Studio 2010 Feature Extension. This training focuses on MVVM.

Silverlight Hierarchy Tree Control

A hierarchy tree with the ability to display any control as a node.

Stick Figure Animation Using C# and WPF

Discover how to create complex stick figure animations using simple WPF or Silverlight elements.

Xamalot

Xamalot.com is a provider of clipart and other XAML resources (and most of our art is also available in other formats, such as PNG or SVG).

The Service Tree Model

A new application architecture as an alternative to composite architectures such as Prism.

XAML Compliance Suite V1

A suite of tests to ensure that a XAML parser is compliant with the XAML specification.

Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer

Karl talks about how to add and consume sample data in the WPF and Silverlight designer, helping to visualize controls.

XAML guidelines and best practices

Corey Schuman gives tips on his best practices for formatting XAML code.

Word to XAML Converter

A Word 2010 Add-in that converts the Office Open XML (WordprocessingML) to XAML.

Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API

Use the COM API to access the Windows 7 taskbar functionality from Silverlight out-of-browser applications.

Creating a Shuffleboard Game using Silverlight

Shows how to create a Windows Phone 7 shuffleboard game in Silverlight.

WPF and Silverlight UserControls at Design Time

Karl Shifflett talks about when to use UserControls and how to understand and alter their design-time behavior.

Silverlight Active Dynamic Backgrounds

Create a rich and dynamic background with a parallax effect that reacts to a user when they use your application.

Basic Interview Questions on Silverlight Technology

A number of questions about Silverlight and related technologies that can be used during interviews, or just if you are looking to brush up on Silverlight.

Silverlight Analog/Retro Flip Numbers

Shows how to build a retro mechanical flip style number display control.

Picture Frame Control in Expression Blend & Silverlight

Shows how to build your first re-useable Control from scratch in Expression Blend.

Animation in Silverlight

An in-depth tutorial about animation in Silverlight.

Achieve loose coupling with the WPF/Silverlight EventBroker

Uses attached properties in WPF or Silverlight to loosely couple UI element events to arbitrary code.

Custom Bitmap Effects in Silverlight - Getting started

So, while writing custom bitmaps isn't very difficult, getting started is difficult. This article shows you how to write your first bitmap effect for Silverlight and explains how it all works. It is based on the article Custom Bitmap Effects for WPF. The main difference is in how the bitmap shader file is used as a Silverlight resource.

Customer Support in Silverlight

Take a screen capture of your running Silverlight app and submit it to your web server. Inclusive a lot of system information.

Simplified MEF: Dynamically Loading a Silverlight .xap

Shows how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework to dynamically load a Silverlight .XAP using view model style.

Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools

A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improve developer productivity.

Please rate your dining experience [How to: Show text labels on a numeric axis with Silverlight/W...

Shows how to display text labels on a NumericAxis in the Silverlight and WPF charting controls.

GMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms and Presentation

An open source control for displaying maps and related information from various providers like Google, Bing, etc.

Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player

A Designer/Developer collaboration in an example of a Windows Phone 7 ViewModel style video player.

Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone

Discusses how all the techniques used in Blend to design desktop Silverlight applications apply to Windows Phone apps as well.

Expression Blend Number Guesser using DataStore

Shows how to creating a number guesser application in Expression Blend with no code using DataStore.

INotifyPropertyChanged… I am fed up of handling events just to know when a property changed

An implementation of a property observer object that makes it easy to process property change events.

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions

An example of Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions.

Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object

Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with Excel or any other application using the COM API. This article guides you to understand this feature step-by-step.

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone appli...

Shows how to animate Windows Phone orientation changes.

A Simple Silverlight RSS Reader

A simple silverlight RSS Reader which pulls out data from a feed url.

Control Storyboards Easily using Behaviors

Shows how to easily control storyboards in Expression Blend.

Silverlight Prize Wheel Animation using Custom Circular ListBox Control

A custom ListBox control with a radial panel that looks like a prize wheel.

Using DynamicObject to intercept and marshal property changes

Shows how to use C# 4.0's DynamicObject to wrap access to properties and in this example ensure that properties on the wrapped object are called on the main UI thread.

How to embed and use the Google Web Fonts in Silverlight

Shows how to embed Google Web Fonts for use in Silverlight.

Communication b/w C++ Silverlight host and Silverlight application

Explains how to call a method defined in Silverlight from a C++ Silverlight host.

Accessing Hardware in Silverlight using COM

An example of a COM object written in C# that allows access to hardware from Silverlight.

SilverShader – Introduction to Silverlight and WPF Pixel Shaders

Explains how to write pixel shaders for the Microsoft Silverlight and WPF platform with HLSL, as well as how to write an extensible Silverlight application for shader demos.

Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions

A simple Silverlight application that uses RX Extensions to communicate with a oData service.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 3

Part 3 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 2

Part 2 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 1

Part 1 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

YouGrade - Silverlight Multimedia Exam Suite

A multimedia exam suite built on Silverlight and Youtube.

Template/View selection with MEF in Silverlight

Shows how to use MEF to automatically wire up data objects to related DataTemplates.

How to add mockup controls to your Expression Blend library

Shows how to add the mockup controls to any SketchFlow project, enabling easier creation of prototypes.

MEFedMVVM

A library for building MEF MVVM applications for Silverlight and WPF. By using this library you can easily build MVVM application.

Silverlight Control Styles and Templates

Provides access to all of the default Silverlight control styles and templates.

WriteableBitmapEx

A number of extension methods for the WriteableBitmap class that enable fast 2D drawing.

Binding RadioButtons to an Enum in Silverlight

Shows how to bind an enum to radiobuttons in Silverlight/WPF.

Host Silverlight Control in C++ using ATL

Shows how to host a Silverlight control in C++ using ATL.

How to Drag and Drop between ListBox using Silverlight 4 Toolkit?

Covers drag and drop operations between two ListBox controls, using here the Silvelright 4 Toolkit to implement the feature.

Silverlight Security: Securing Your Silverlight Applications

A great explanation of how security works in Silverlight and services it can call.

VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling

Shows how to profile a Silverlight 4 application and view the results in Visual Studio.

Busy Dizzy Bee-sley Spirographic Animation in Expression Blend & Silverlight

Simulating a random motion animation without code, using spirographic shapes, PathListBoxes, Storyboards and behaviours.

Databinding in Silverlight applications

An introduction to the basic concepts of simple data binding in a Silverlight application.

How to create a Unit Testable solution in Silverlight

Talks about best practices to write a Silverlight application which is highly unit testable.

How to work with Silverlight BusyIndicator?

An introduction to the Silverlight BusyIndicator control.

Step by Step Guide to Silverlight 4 Command Binding

Silverlight 4 now came up with the support of Command Binding. Using Command Binding you can easily develop your Silverlight MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) applications where your view will not know about the data i.e. a full separation of the view from the model. In this article I will describe you how to implement the command binding to load some informations & display it to the UI.

Silverlight Advanced View Model Style Video Player

A full featured Silverlight view model style video player.

Windows Phone FAQ

Microsoft's official FAQ on Windows Phone development, updated frequently.

Silverlight Pictures Album control

A Silverlight Pictures Album control with zooming and slideshow.

Fun with floating point

A detailed discussion about how floating point math works in .NET and an implementation of a custom floating point type that works around issues with some floating point math.

Value Coercion for the Masses

Dr. WPF provides code to enable support of dependency property value coercion in Silverlight and also provides a video on how value coercion works in WPF and Silverlight.

ListBox Styling (Part 3 - Additional Templates) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

Explanation and examples of the Additional Templates and Generated Content of a ListBox.

Presentation Model (MVVM) good practices

Shows some good practices that can be applied to the Presentation Model/MVVM pattern.

Unit Testing A Silverlight 'Simplified MVVM' Modal Popup

An example of a 'Simplified MVVM' modal popup unit test.

MVVM Study - Interlude

Rob provides a list of links to helpful MVVM-related resources that can used to learn the in's and out's of the design pattern.

Silverlight Simplified MVVM Modal Popup

An example of an easy to use MVVM modal popup and Silverlight value converter.

Introducing the Model Thread View Thread Pattern

Reduce threading code, and increase UI responsiveness with a new pattern extending MVVM.

Updated Code Snippets for WPF and Silverlight

Dr. WPF shares updated Visual Studio code snippets for WPF and Silverlight.

Silverlight binary serialization using Protobuf-net

Shows how to serialize a pure .NET object class to a fast binary data.

Silverlight YouTube Jukebox

Search and play YouTube videos inside a Silverlight 4.0 application. Uses RIA Services, right-click event handling, themes, and styles.

Keeping an ObservableCollection sorted with a method override

Shows how to keep an ObservableCollection sorted when adding items.

Silverlight 4: Printing Functionality

A quick overview on how to use the new Silverlight 4 printing functionality.

Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop File Manager

A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads.

Silverlight File Manager

An implementation of the View Model Style pattern to create a simple Silverlight 4 File Manager.

A Timeline Visualizer in Silverlight/C#: Part 2

Part 2 of a Silverlight Timeline visualizer control.

Data virtualization

Bea discusses how to use data virtualization to improve performance when displaying large data sets.

UI Virtualization

Bea talks about support for UI virtualization in Silverlight and WPF.

A Timeline Visualizer in Silverlight/C#: Part 1

Part 1 of a Silverlight Timeline visualizer control.

How can I expand items in a TreeView? – Part III

Shows how to expand and select TreeView items using the Dispatcher.

How can I expand items in a TreeView? – Part II

Bea shows how to implement expand/collapse all nodes and reveal-a-node TreeView functionality.

How can I expand items in a TreeView? – Part I

Bea talks about how to use implicit styles to auto-expand items in a TreeView.