In an interview earlier this year with MSDN geekSpeak, I discussed unit testing for Silverlight and some of the frameworks that are available. One audience member raised a very important question: ''How do we test the XAML?'' Specifically, what happens when we hand off XAML to a designer or another developer, and they accidently remove a ...

See how to use MEF's ''ExportProvider'' to create a custom export process to allow bringing resources into a page as imports.

I've been enjoying learning more about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and exploring various ways to integrate it with applications. After toying with MEF on Silverlight for awhile, I began to wonder about using it to export/import UI pieces or even define data elements in XAML. After a tweet to @gblock confirmed there was not native ...

Silverlight, with its powerful text and graphics manipulation capabilities and strong interaction with the scripting DOM, seems to be the perfect engine for a Captcha challenge. See an Example Online Download the Source (18.3KB) Captcha is a challenge-response test used to determine to a degree of confidence that the end user is really human ...