Misc

Note: This article is submitted by Ola Karlsson for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Ola! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

Overview

In this article we’ll be looking at the concept of adding interactive Silverlight elements to existing Web pages to provide added rich features. We’ll be looking at creating an animated Silverlight panel which will slide in from the side of the browser window when a button is clicked.

The somewhat tricky bit is that we want the panel to lie on top on the normal HTML content of the page and when when the Silverlight UI is slid out we want to be able to interact with the HTML instead.

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Note: This article is submitted by Jonas Follesø for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Jonas! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

Introduction

Silverlight and Flash have many similarities. Both are browser plug-ins that enables web developers to build richer internet applications. You can choose to have Silverlight or Flash occupy the entire screen and build all off the application, or you can have Silverlight or Flash embedded as small islands on your HTML page.

When you decide to include Silverlight or Flash on your page there are many scenarios where you may want to enable the application to interact with the rest of your page. You may want to read data from the HTML page, or update certain HTML elements at runtime. Perhaps you are gradually enhancing an existing web application and need to leverage existing JavaScript code running on the page. In these scenarios you need to leverage the browser integration model supported by Silverlight or Flash to communicate between your application and the hosting HTML page.

In this tutorial I’ll walk you through the basics of browser integration, and how you can make Silverlight and Flash talk to each. The tutorial starts off with some basic examples of browser integration in Flash and Silverlight, and move on to show how to enable webcam support in Silverlight using Flash.

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Introduction

This is my third article from the series about the MultiscaleImage control. In retrospect here is brief information about the previous articles if you missed them: the first one was about the MultiscaleImage control and the SubImages collection and the second about randomizing and rearranging the SubImages of the MultiscaleImage control. This article will focus on the Metadata file that is generated by the DeepZoom Composer and more specifically on the tag element in it that is present for each image in the collection.

Note: This article is submitted by Matt Serbinski for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Matt! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows users to add modules to their sites for great flexibility. These modules are typically written in PHP and use drupal's API to connect themselves with the framework. Silverlight (version 2.0 and greater) is a cross-platform browser plugin that allows users to write managed .NET code for the back end and use XAML as the front end. Since silverlight is a browser application and drupal is a framework for hosting data in browsers there can be data that is shared between the two using HTTP as the transport. In this example, I have chosen to use XML-RPC as drupal uses xml-rpc natively and silverlight can easily take advantage of this.

Note: This article is submitted by Matt Perdeck for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Matt! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

Reusable code to do narrow data columns with navigation buttons, such as address lists.

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Contents

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Installation
• TallColumns Project
• TallColumnsManager Project
• Db Project
• WrapPanel Project
• GroupHeader Project

Introduction

When it comes to presenting data, there is a lot of emphasis on grids that present data in a single wide column, showing lots of fields horizontally.

However, some data tend to be presented in narrow columns, such as address lists and book indices...

Update: The demo, the source code and the code in the article are compatible with Silverlight 2 RTW. The only changes I made were to the object element in the host page.

Introduction

With this article I continue the series for the MultiscaleImage. Yesterday I wrote about the MultiscaleImage control and the SubImages collection. Today I am going to explain how to randomize the SubImage collection by changing the order of the images in it and how to apply this change on the screen using animations. I will use the tarantula again, assuming that you have already get used to it. Don’t forget to check out the live demo and download the source code if you want to take a look at the whole application.

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Update: The demo, the source code and the code in the article are compatible with Silverlight 2 RTW. The only changes I made were to the object element in the host page.

Introduction

The MultiscaleImage is a really great control that allows us to do amazing things in Silverlight 2. That is why I decided to write a series of articles about the nice things that can be done using it. This is the first one and it is focused on the SubImages collection. It explains how to select an image from the collection and then fit it to the size of the control. If you're new to this control read my previous article about it - Using the MultiscaleImage control. Before going ahead you should also be familiar with the DeepZoom Composer and its latest changes. Note that in this article I've replaced the "Double-Click" zoom with “One-Click” zoom.

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Note: This article is submitted by Michael Washington for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Michael! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

The example is based on an earlier drag and drop code sample that was based on an example created by Keith Mahoney. In his example he shows how to drag and drop various types of elements into various types of Panels. In this example we only cover dragging and dropping an element onto a Canvas. We also cover importing and exporting content from one user control into another.

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Note: This article is submitted by Boyan Mihailov for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Boyan! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

Introduction

I am a great fan of Silverlight. I have never liked 1.0, but when version 2.0 was released I was very amazed. I created a few solitaire games. Now I decided to create a new game and to describe the problems I have encountered to you. First I decided to write an article about creating a Silverlight application for Facebook. But subsequently I decided to divide the article in two parts – creating a Silverlight application, which is a game in this occasion, and integrating it in Facebook.
I am going to create a game, called Cows & Bulls. You play that game for time. It supports a list of all players and their time.

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Note: This article is submitted by Antoni Dol for Silverlight Contest: Write and Win.Thanks a lot, Antoni! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

This Silverlight 2 development kick start helps you get over initial hurdles and clears the path for faster results.

Coming from projects in which WPF design experience was established, the step to developing in Silverlight 2 was not an easy one. Even though I anticipated getting disappointed and even annoyed by times, there were several gotchas that baffled me. Some of those can still be found in the current Beta 2 release, but others are resolved to a degree that makes for a workable Silverlight 2 environment.