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In this video tutorial, Victor Gaudioso explains how to read XML into Silverlight and then convert it to native objects.

In this  video tutorial I show you how to:

1. Create a new Silverlight application and website

2. Create a new XML file

3. Read the XML file into the application

4. Create a Sigleton DataFactory

5. Deserialize the XML into Native Silverlight Objects.

A set of short screencasts providing a "tour" of the network capabilites in the Silverlight 4 beta. We'll look at raw HTTP access, socket access and WCF capabilities.

One of the great pleasures, and total terrors of documenting this open-source application is that occasionally I have to offer up some half-baked ideas that risk displaying how little I know about a particular topic, but which are necessary to generate discussion. Caveat: this is such an entry.  I could have put this into the project documentation but I saw an opportunity to widen the audience on a topic that is important to Silverlight Programmers, even if not part of Silverlight itself.

Several years back I posted a XML tokenizer for syntax highlighting. At the time I didn't post a complete app, since it was part of a larger project; if someone recently asked me for a little more context for the tokenizer so I put together a quickie Silverlight project showing how to use the tokenizer for syntax highlighting.

I need to make some additional improvements to this, but I thought I would share this sooner rather than later.

The widget pulls down data from an XML file loaded with meeting data, so it ought to have the most up-to-date information on it. Next up, creating a meeting editor.

Terence Tsang has posted a revised image Gallery based on the last post of  XML Image Gallery.

The following features are added in the new Gallery

1. Loading animation
2. Sliding effect

It is a new image Gallery! The Gallery is an xml driven slideshow which supports multiple galleries, thumbnails and lot more. You are able to add more images by just modifying the XML only. You are also able to see how I use XAMLReader (in Silverlight) in loading the XML easily. Images used in the application is a Top Model from Hong Kong.

For more on this feature, check out Figure 15 on this blog post. Much to my surprise (and geekish delight), the entire file is in XML. Here’s a brief snippet.

By now, I assume most of you are well aware of new features on .NET 3.5. Language Integrated Queries (LINQ) is one of the most important features of .NET 3.5. LINQ provides flavours like LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML. There are lots of advantages of using LINQ to XML, this reduce lots of complexities of XML DOM.