A few weeks ago, I blogged about a sample application I wrote that uses Silverlight 3's WriteableBitmap class to draw views of the Mandelbrot set. I hadn't used it long before I realized that it really needed Back-button support. You could drill down Read More...

If you've worked with Silverlight 3, you may have noticed that Visual Studio's Add New Item dialog includes an option for adding a "Silverlight Child Window" to your Silverlight project: The new child window feature makes it easy to add modal dialogs Read More...

If I had a dollar for every time a developer has said to me "You mean a style can only be applied to an object once in Silverlight? How brain dead!" or "Why doesn't Silverlight support BasedOn styles like WPF?", I'd be retired on a tropical island with Read More...

One of Silverlight 3's prominent new features is its built-in navigation framework. This framework allows you to break your content into navigable chunks, or "pages," that derive from the new System.Windows.Controls.Page class. Pages are addressable by Read More...

One of the overarching goals when designing a Silverlight application is to minimize the size of the XAP file. The smaller the XAP file, the faster the application loads. In Silverlight 2, one way to prevent external BCL assemblies such as System.Xml.Linq.dll Read More...

Silverlight is a browser plug-in that enables browser-based applications to display rich, XAML-based UIs, execute managed code, and leverage the .NET Framework Base Class Library. Thus it may come as a surprise to some that in Silverlight 3, applications Read More...