Samples

Download the sample here: SilverlightPlayground.Pop3Sample.zip (40KB)

There are plenty of ways to handle network communications in Silverlight, but also with this great number of tools, the task is not always simple. The main problem is due to the need to always make calls to the network in an asyncronous way. If this is not a great trouble when we use a traditional HTTP channel, it may become source of headaches when you have to implement a low-level network protocol using a socket. When you have to handle this situation it is often required by protocols to exchange a great number of small messages, each with its own format, size and syntax, so the programming become a sort of push & pull game with a huge number of methods, hard to handle when you are debugging or maintaining the software.

This is part 8 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader.
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects
8. Animated navigation between Pages.

Here, we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Introduction

In this session, we will cover one quite popular, but still very useful, technique for adding interaction to your web-site - "How to enable animations between pages using the Silverlight Navigation Framework".

This is part 7 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader.
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects 
8. Animated navigation between Pages

Here we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Introduction

It’s always complicated, when you have to deal with 3D objects. No matter what environment and framework you choose, you’ll need to learn a lot of complicated structures and procedures in order to implement even a simple scenario.

This is part 6 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader.
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects
8. Animated navigation between Pages

Here we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Introduction

In this article, we’ll examine one very interesting approach for creating Rich UI. It’s a program that manipulates the UI just before the actual rendering on the screen – and it’s called PixelShader.

Introduction

Some time ago Corey Schuman published the article A look at the Printing API in Silverlight 4 right here on SilverlightShow.net. The article deals with the basics of printing in Silverlight 4, using a WYSIWYG approach. In this article we want to look into a more advanced scenario of printing, where WYSIWYG is not the best approach. We’ll take a look at how to print text in such a way that it will fit on the page and we’ll look into printing more than one page.

Before we start, a screenprint of what we’re building:

And if you want to have a look at the result, you can do so here.

This is part 5 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects
8. Animated navigation between Pages

Here we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Maybe the hardest feature to implement from the entire site was the Smoking menu effect. We’ve tried out a lot of ideas and I’m going to summarize some of them:

1. We thought to use a video as a background, but its performance was bad. Blending the video with the background washard to do.

1. Introduction

I recently found myself in the following situation. My boss came to me and asked me: “Dude, we have a big Silverlight project, performing a great number of CRUD operations. We need to find a unified way of showing Modal Dialogs in a MVVM manner, without using any code in the View. The logic of showing dialogs must reside in the ViewModel, not in the code-behind. Also do you remember our previous WinForms projects? There are several pretty useful classes, such as BindingSource and DataRowView, implementing BeginEdit, EndEdit and CancelEdit functionality out of the box.

Recently I had some time to play with the new Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools CTP. I have created a sample application (called „geoGallery”), you can watch the demo video and download the code. It’s a Gallery application, but to give it a little twist, it gets the pictures from Google Picasa based on your location!

Download source code

Now I’m going to guide you through the code, focusing on the Phone specific features, methods and problems I experienced.

Introduction

One of the things I found frustrating in the previous versions of Silverlight was the lack of the Right Mouse Click support. Now we know that this functionality has turned real with Silverlight 4. Furthermore, we know that the April 2010 Silverlight toolkit release comes with a ContextMenu Control to be used in combination with the right click. So it’s time to put these new things in practice and try to use them in our projects. In this article we will see how to create and use a ContextMenu, how it is made and then we will extend it in a peculiar way.

1. Introduction

In this article I’m going to introduce a first public component of our silverlight application framework called Halcyone. In this experimental component we provide simple way for rapid silverlight REST services development. We are using convection based approach to minimize boilerplate code and provide reactive api based on IObservable push collections introduced in dev labs reactive extensions.

You can get sources and samples from the project codeplex site:

http://halcyone.codeplex.com/

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