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Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32 Title: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo:http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.htmlSilverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title: Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/...

Silverlight Tips of the Day

Interested in learning something new about Silverlight almost every day? I will be posting “Tips of the Day” for Silverlight on my blog at http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx.For example, over the past few days, I have added the following tips: If you have any suggestions or requests don’t ...

Localizing a Silverlight application

VS Silverlight beta2 adjusted its build functionalities to support the new Silverlight runtime localization model, which essentially is “one language, one xap”. This article provides the steps to take to build a localized app Let us say, you want to localize your app for the culture of “ja-jp”. You have created several resource files ...

What’s new with Silverlight Tools Beta 2!

A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below. 1. WCF Templates for Silverlight Enabled. WCF templates are now enabled for Silverlight. If you want to add Web Services to your Silverlight ...

Silverlight Resources

Looking for an good list of Silverlight Resources? I have created a list of Silverlight Blogs, Tutorials and more that you can find here:http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspxI will be keeping this list up-to-date so send me any links you feel are missing!Thank you.Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual ...