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• Single - you can select only one item.
• Multiple - you can select multiple items by selecting one item, holding Ctrl or Shift key and pressing another item.
• Extended - you can again select multiple items but the Shift key acts differently. With the help of the Shift key you can select items range by just pressing one item, holding Shift and pressing another one.

Introduction

Animation Easing are built in animation functions in Silverlight 3. They include several commonly used animations effects.

Overview

I'll describe in details how you can use the BackEase animation. Imagine that you want to move an Ellipse from the top to the bottom of a Canvas. You just create a Storyboard with DoubleAnimation as follows:

Code behind:

OK, but what if you want to make the ellipse move up for a while and after that move down.

Introduction

The SaveFileDialog is a new dialog control in Silverlight 3 which allows the user to save a file on the client machine.

Overview

To demonstrate the common use of the SaveFileDialog I’ll give an example:

When you click on the button a dialog window appears which allows you to save a file.

In Silverlight 3 you are able to check if an internet connection is present. You can also detect network changes.

See also:
Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications)

Network availability checking:

Network change detection:

Demo

As an example I created the following demo:

Download Source 

Introduction

A cool new feature in Silverlight 3 is the ability to run Silverlight applications out of the browser which resembles a desktop application. Only a few configuration steps are needed to enable your application to run offline.

See also:
Tip: Detecting Network Change in Silverllight 3 Application

Overview

To enable this feature you only need to open the AppManifest.xml file which can be found in the Properties folder and add
some settings as follows:

Introduction

A new feature in Silverlight 3 is the Perspective Transforms. With its help you can simulate rotating an object in 3D space. Note that this is not a real 3D, Silverlight does not support 3D yet.

Overview

Let's start with a little demo: 

And we have the following result:

Introduction

In this article my aim is to give a quick overview of the controls included in the Silverlight Toolkit - launched a week ago and to give an example for every control included in the toolkit. I've made a little research for each control and I will share my impressions with the community.

Overview

The following Silverlight controls are included in the toolkit:

Components in the Stable Quality Band:

• TreeView
• DockPanel
• WrapPanel
• Label
• HeaderedContentControl
• HeaderedItemsControl

Components in the Preview Quality Band

• AutoCompleteBox
• NumericUpDown
• Viewbox
• Expander
• ImplicitStyleManager
• Charting

TreeView

Let's start with the TreeView.

Introduction

Note: this article is specific for Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

What is Internationalization and localization?

Localization and internationalization are the processes of making software capable to display content in different languages depending on the user preferences like described in Wikipedia.

It's a common scenario in business applications to support multiple languages. Development environments often automate the process of internationalizing an application. For example Visual Studio can create local resources for an ASP.NET Page or User Control automatically and in the ASP.NET web application the proper localized strings can be loaded automatically depending on the user preferences without the need for the developer to implement all this functionality.

What about Internationalization and localization in Silverlight?

I spent a few hours in Internet looking for some resources which cover this topic. So I'll try to summarize the process of building an international Silverlight application and will give some examples.

Using RESX files