How to Build Silverlight Video Players with Expression Encoder
This is a quick look at how to use MediaElement in Expression Blend to form the starting point of a custom video/audio player. View Screencast at Nettuts+ Go and check out the screencast (also see what...
View ArticleIntroduction to Control Templating in Silverlight
One of Silverlight’s most powerful features is that the built-in controls have a look-and-feel that comes from a template. These templates can be replaced to provide completely different visuals onto a...
View ArticleSilverlight for In-Browser, Out-of-Browser and Elevated Applications
Silverlight is known as a “browser plug-in” but it can easily be used to build 3 different kinds of applications cross-platform. There’s the browser app, the out-of-browser app and the elevated-trust...
View ArticleCreate a Wallview for Images with Silverlight: Design
As the title states, we’re going to create a Wallview inspired by iTunes. This tutorial is split up into two parts – one for the design in Blend and the other one for the code behind in Visual Studio....
View ArticleCreate a Wallview for Images with Silverlight: Code
Welcome to the second part of creating an iTunes-inspired Wallview. In this part we are going to write the whole code in C# for the two UserControls that we created with Expression Blend in the...
View ArticleAnimation in Silverlight
Silverlight has an animation system whereby most properties on user interface elements can be animated – properties like width, height, rotation, color and so on can all be targeted in a consistent way...
View ArticleNavigation Capabilities in Silverlight
Much like a regular HTML application, a Silverlight application can be structured as a set of pages with navigation links between them. This allows not only for navigation within the Silverlight...
View ArticleSilverlight Firestarter Keynote with Scott Guthrie
Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend, we feature an inspiring talk by Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie as he presents Silverlight...
View ArticleUnderstanding Visual States in Silverlight
User interfaces change state. An email client might have online/offline views and might display emails in full/collapsed views. At a more granular level, a CheckBox control might have states like...
View ArticleDeclarative Interactivity with Actions & Triggers in Silverlight
The Expression Blend design tool aims to keep designers productive by giving them access to pre-packaged components that enable common interactive tasks to be performed without writing additional code....
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