Silverlight Articles (103) - Page 7

Lets Start devlopment using Silverlight2 

From my last article on Silverlight we have seen that the Silverlight is meant for both Developer and Designers at bit differently from each-other. A Developer needs following: • Set up an IDE • An Editor to create an XAML and managed code • Moreover, SDK A designer needs to install some designer tools and a development environment which work with XAML

Creating Image Reflection in Silverlight 2.0 

Silverlight 2.0 provides robust features to enable developers to create rich and funky user interfaces. In this post I will share with you some basics of XAML Transforms. Using these techniques we shall create a simple image mirroring or image reflection solution.

SilverLight FAQ's - Part 3 

This article discusses 12 FAQ’s which revolve around bindings, layouts, consuming WCF services and how to connect to database through silver light.

7 simple steps to connect SQL Server using WCF from SilverLight 

In this article we will look how we can do database operations using SilverLight. We will first try to understand why we cannot call ADO.NET directly from a silverlight application and then we will browse through 7 steps which we need to follow to do database operation from silverlight.

4 Simple steps to consume WCF service using Silverlight 

This article will talk about 4 simple steps which will assist you to consume WCF service in a Silverlight application. It also had a simple sample source code which demonstrates all the 4 steps practically.

One way, Two way and One time bindings using SilverLight 

This article will talk about three ways of binding object properties with SilverLight user interfaces.  We will first go through the fundamentals of the 3 bindings and then take up a small sample which will demonstrate how the binding works. We have also attached the source for the same.

3 ways of applying layouts using SilverLight 

Must be this article is very basic. But I have seen many silver light developers struggling to layout controls and objects in silver light. In section we will quickly walk through 3 different methods of layout for silverlight. In this article we will go through each of these layout implementation and do a simple sample for the same.

SilverLight FAQ part 2 (Animations and Transformations) 

This FAQ is completed dedicated to animations and transformations using SilverLight. The tutorial starts with animation basics like timelines and storyboard. Later the article moves ahead to talk about different animations supported and we finally end the tutorial with a simple rectangle animation.

21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight 

This article talks about 21 important FAQ from the perspective of WPF and Silver light. Both of these technologies are connected to a certain extent. This article not only explains the theory aspect of these technologies but also shows small samples for each of them.

How to consume a WCF Service in Silverlight? 

This article explains how to create WCF Service and consume WCF Services in Silverlight. To explain this, I have taken a simple example in which I will use Northwind database.

Giving custom look and feel to the ListBox control in Silverlight 

This article describes how to give a customize look and feel of the ListBox control in Silverlight. It also explains how to get the selected item value in code behind.

Consuming ASP.NET Web Service in Silverlight 

This article describes how to consume ASP.NET web service in Silverlight in easy to follow steps.

How to work with multiple xaml file in a single Silverlight application 

In this article, I shall try to explain how to work with multiple .xaml file in a single Silverlight application.