Silverlight Articles (103) - Page 4

How to Search the Telerik Map Control in Silverlight4 

This is the coolest thing I have ever done with the Telerik’s Silverlight map Control. The Control it’s so easy to use. The Previous article I have written on the Map control of was based on co-ordinates, it is good when you want to display certain areas, but if you want people to search certain location, you will need to allow them to enter the location of the place. I had a look at one of the demos presented by Telerik and to my surprise it was very easy to do. I even search my home town.

How to use Telerik’s Map Control in Silverlight 4 

A friend of mine, who is doing working on a GIS project, asked me, if I could get him a cool control that will show maps based on the Coordinates at ease without worrying about other map problems that GIS developers come across every day. So this triggered me to write something nice with the Map control from Telerik.

Building an N-Tier Architecture Application in Silverlight 4 Part I 

This is my first part of the series of N-Tier architecture in Silverlight. I would like to stress that the architecture has been misused and abused. I came across designs that were breaking the rules of the N-Tier architecture designs. We will highlight those rules in the series of this subject. Microsoft did a good job with Silverlight, there is no way of adding inline or naked SQL statements in the Presentation Layer anymore, like it used to be in Asp.net and win forms applications I have ever came across. As an N-Tier architecture evangelist I always practices what I preach everywhere I go.

Inserting and Loading records in Silverlight using LINQ to SQL 

In this article, I shall describe steps of how to insert and load records from SQL Server database using LINQ to SQL and WCF Services.

How to create a custom splash (loading) screen in Silverlight 

In this article, we shall learn how to create custom splash (loading) screen in Silverlight.

Drag and Drop in Silverlight 3/4 

Welcome again to Dotnetfunda. Weeks ago one of our members here at Dotnetfunda asked a question on how to do a drag and drop and there was no answer on his question, so we realized that this type of a question will still come in the future. In this article I will give you a small hello world like demo on how to do a drag and drop in Silverlight.

How to send an email in Silverlight Part 2 

Welcome again to Dotnetfunda. This is the last part of this series. The first part of the article , i demonstrated on how to create a wcf service that will be consumed by our silverlight application.

How to send an email in Silverlight Part 1 

Welcome again to Dotnetfunda. In this article I am going to demostrate on how to send an email in Silverlight. I have previously wrote an article on how you can do that in asp.net, but now in Silverlight the approach is different and a newbie or even an experienced person can get lost. I am known by writing easly interpreted articles and I will keep on doing that , by even providing you with screenshots. Thanks again to Sheo who take my article as word document and post them on my behalf. I am a programmer who does not like to spent to much time on a word processing program like ms word.

Chapter 4: Introduction to Controls 

In this Chapter, I will describe you about some of the most common controls used in Silverlight. After the end of this section, you will be able to understand about those basic controls and their uses. Here I will guide you to understand some of the properties of each control and how to set them from both XAML & Code behind C# file.

Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–II) 

In this article, I will demonstrate you guys how to animate the items in a specific direction in PathListBox control. This not only guide you for animation in PathListBox but also will help you understanding the StoryBoard creation (if you are very new to Silverlight). Read the whole article and at the end don’t forget to leave your comments.

Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I) 

In this article, I will guide you to understand the functionality of Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control. Also, I will guide you step-by-step to create your first PathListBox control demo application. Here we will create the above two samples where the collection of texts will position them in proper location on the edge of the circular path.

How to pass values to Silverlight application from ASPX page using InitParameter? 

Neither the Silverlight is new nor the init params. But, I found various people in different forums asking for the logic on the implementation part for passing value to Silverlight application from ASP.Net application. In this post, I will describe about it.

How to use new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight? 

In July 2010, Indian Cabinet selected a new Symbol for the Indian Rupee which looks like as the snapshot shown at the left side. In this post, I will describe you how to integrate the same symbol in Silverlight application.

How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library? 

In this Article I will guide you creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.

Another Simple Binding In Silverlight 

In this article I will not be binding the controls with the data from Database. My example is a very simple example, like a hello world type of Example. In this article I am going to bind the individual controls from a property value. To follow my example you need Expression Blend.