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  • 50 comments  /  posted by  Chris Anderson  on  Sep 28, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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

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    Introduction

    Silverlight is one of the major new technologies from Microsoft near release and will potentially have a huge impact on the Microsoft development community. Developers are rapidly looking to Silverlight to solve major challenges and limitations as posed by existing technologies (such as Windows Forms and ASP.NET). WPF uptake has been lukewarm at best, however the similarities it has with Silverlight could very well give it the kick it needs. Silverlight, after starting it's life with the code name of WPF/E (WPF Everywhere) has been some time in the making but the version we've all been waiting for (version 2, containing a subset of the .NET Framework allowing developers to write client side code in their favourite .NET language rather than just Javascript which was the only option in version 1 of Silverlight) is finally nearing completion.

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  • 8 comments  /  posted by  david  on  Sep 28, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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    Introduction

    As Silverlight approaches its official version 2 release, the hype for Microsoft’s powerful web development platform is certainly building.  Through the many beta versions there have been countless changes, so some developers have shied from fully embracing Silverlight.  Silverlight has many powers that are not often explored, and in this past week I’ve created this comprehensive tutorial to pull together a series of interesting findings on the subtleties of Silverlight 2.

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  • 3 comments  /  posted by  Boyan Mihaylov  on  Sep 28, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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    Introduction

    Silverlight applications make it easy to perform a lot of actions. One of its greatest capabilities is to work with Web Services. In this article I will demonstrate how you can search books in Amazon.com with Silverlight. I have created a simple application which allows you to navigate through the great catalog of books very easily.

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    Preparation

    Amazon.com provides very functional web service.

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  • 19 comments  /  posted by  Alexey Zakharov  on  Sep 25, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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

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    Introduction

    In this article I'd like to tell you how you can easily create your own Virtual Earth viewer based on Silverlight Deep Zoom technology.

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  • 37 comments  /  posted by  Doug Blackmore  on  Sep 10, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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    Like many others, we have wanted a combo box since the release of Silverlight, but failed to find a usable one. Rather than waiting to see if and when the RTM includes one, we decided to address that need ourselves. It includes templating, data binding, and auto complete functionality.

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    Getting Started

    The initial code for the combo box was obtained by reflecting (http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/) on the Silverlight ListBox control. This provided the initial xaml and C# for the dropdown portion of the combo box, so we renamed the controls from ListBoxItem to ComboBoxItem and ListBox to ComboBox.

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  • 1 comments  /  posted by  Matthew Serbinski  on  Sep 08, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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

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    The next item in this series is the drupal popular content block. You can see this block on the right hand side titled 'Popular content' that lists my sites popular content of all time.mattserbinskihome-thumb The current block actually uses the views (version 2) module to display the content, but this information ultimately comes from drupals core statistics module. The information will be hosted in a custom silverlight control that I have created that simply sends requests to my custom drupal module and displays the data that it receives.

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  • 7 comments  /  posted by  John Papa  on  Sep 01, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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    Step 1)  Create a tester control...

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  • 3 comments  /  posted by  Matt Serbinski  on  Aug 24, 2008 (more than a year ago)

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    I will be writing a few posts on connecting silverlight and drupal in which I will replicate my main site. I will be doing this piece by piece as I investigate each drupal module that I am using and how I can request the appropriate data to populate my silverlight controls. I have outlined the basics needed to accomplish this in my previous post and will be focusing on the new information that is needed to complete each new piece.

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