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November 2009 - Posts

Silverlight 4's New Drag-and-Drop Support

Another new feature of Silverlight 4 that will enable developers to build richer UIs is drag-and-drop file support. In Silverlight 3, you had to pop up an OpenFileDialog to allow the user to select files from the local file system and make them available Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:26 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments

Silverlight 4's New Clipboard Support

Among the many new features coming in Silverlight 4 is clipboard support. A new class named System.Windows.Clipboard provides three static methods for accessing the system clipboard: GetText , which retrieves text from the clipboard SetText , which places Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:58 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments

Silverlight 4's Improved Element Data Binding

Earlier this year, I wrote about Silverlight 3's new element data binding feature , which enables XAML elements to be bound together declaratively. I also bemoaned the fact that the target of an element-to-element data binding had to be a Framework-element Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:03 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments

Silverlight 4's New Implicit Styles

Silverlight 4 introduces a boatload of big-ticket features such as printing support, webcam and microphone support, and support for elevated trust in out-of-browser applications. It's also chock full of minor improvements that fly lower under the radar. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:25 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments

Silverlight 3's New Application Extension Services

Another feature of Silverlight 3 that has flown under the radar since the product's release is application extension services , or application services for short. Application services are client-side services that start when the application starts and Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 12:04 PM by jprosise | 7 Comments

Silverlight 3's New {RelativeSource} Markup Extension

One of the more obscure features introduced in Silverlight 3 is the {RelativeSource} markup extension. It's poorer than its counterpart in WPF because the Silverlight version supports only two modes: Self and TemplatedParent. There are precious few examples Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 1:00 AM by jprosise | 3 Comments

Implementing CoverFlow in Silverlight 3

Apple's CoverFlow interface has become popular for presenting collections of items in a highly browseable format, especially on mobile devices where real estate is limited. Thanks to the PlaneProjection class introduced in Silverlight 3, CoverFlow interfaces Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:12 PM by jprosise | 8 Comments