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Great Reads

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

Silverlight Cairngorm - Port Cairngorm to .NET

by Modesty Zhang

Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.

Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

by Ernesto Herrera

Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.

A MIME Message Viewing Library in WPF

by Shuqian Ying

The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.

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HTML5/CSS 3 Modal Dialog Box; no JavaScript

by DrABELL

Pure HTML5 modal pop-up box ("darkbox") implemented via CSS 3

YouTube® playback customization options

by DrABELL

Customize YouTube® video playback by adding web query parameters

Catel - Part 0 of n: Why choose Catel?

by Geert van Horrik

This article tries to explain why you should use Catel as the (or one of the) frameworks when developing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications.