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Declarative Interactivity with Actions & Triggers in Silverlight
The Expression Blend design tool aims to keep designers productive by giving them access to pre-packaged components that enable common interactive tasks to...
Mike Taulty
10 Mar 2011
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Understanding Visual States in Silverlight
User interfaces change state. An email client might have online/offline views and might display emails in full/collapsed views. At a more granular level, a...
Mike Taulty
25 Feb 2011
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Navigation Capabilities in Silverlight
Much like a regular HTML application, a Silverlight application can be structured as a set of pages with navigation links between them. This allows not only...
Mike Taulty
17 Feb 2011
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Animation in Silverlight
Silverlight has an animation system whereby most properties on user interface elements can be animated – properties like width, height, rotation, color and...
Mike Taulty
19 Jan 2011
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Download and Read an XML File Over HTTP
One of the defining characteristics of a RIA is the ability to cross the network and grab resources. There are many ways to do this in Silverlight, but here...
Mike Taulty
27 Dec 2010
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Silverlight for In-Browser, Out-of-Browser and Elevated Applications
Silverlight is known as a "browser plug-in" but it can easily be used to build 3 different kinds of applications cross-platform. There's the browser app, the...
Mike Taulty
4 Nov 2010
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Introduction to Control Templating in Silverlight
One of Silverlight's most powerful features is that the built-in controls have a look-and-feel that comes from a template. These templates can be replaced to...
Mike Taulty
26 Oct 2010
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How to Build Silverlight Video Players with Expression Encoder
The Silverlight category over at Activetuts+ has been steadily gaining momentum over the last couple of months. However, the world of RIA's covers a broad...
Mike Taulty
20 Sep 2010
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How to Build Silverlight Video Players with Expression Encoder
This is a quick look at how to use MediaElement in Expression Blend to form the starting point of a custom video/audio player.
Mike Taulty
20 Sep 2010
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Databinding with Silverlight
Databinding is key, key, key in Silverlight. Additionally, it’s key. No, really. The basic idea is that we don’t want to write code that transfers data...
Mike Taulty
15 Sep 2010
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Styling Silverlight UI Elements
The ability to apply style to user interface elements is something that we’re familiar with from HTML/CSS. Silverlight has some similar mechanisms for...
Mike Taulty
10 Sep 2010
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Layout for Silverlight User Interfaces
Silverlight lays out user interface elements in Panels with various capabilities ranging from fixed, pixel-based layout through to flexible, fluid designs....
Mike Taulty
1 Sep 2010
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