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.

SQL

C#3.0

Windows

.NET3.5

Silverlight 4 Video Player

8 May 2011 by defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

Build Your Own DataGrid for Silverlight: Step 1

23 Apr 2009 by Jeff Karlson

Learn how to build the body part of your DataGrid using Silverlight and the GOA Toolkit. Implement Virtual Mode, work with hierarchical data, and build cells and cells navigation.

Export Silverlight DataGrid to Excel XML/CSV

1 Dec 2009 by raelango

This article explains how to export the contents of a DataGrid to Excel/CSV.

ListBox Styling (Part 2 - ControlTemplate) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

26 Apr 2010 by Alan Beasley

How to Style the Control Template of a ListBox in a small MVVM application

Silverlight

XAML

Design

ScrollIntoView for a DataGrid when using MVVM

8 Nov 2010 by JeroenVonk

Silverlight

MVVM

Windows Phone Crosswords

3 Jul 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to create a Windows Phone crosswords game taking advantage of online internet resources

Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object

31 May 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with Excel or any other application using the COM API. In this article, I will guide you to understand this feature step-by-step.

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Silverlight ColorPicker

8 Jan 2011 by Xiaojie Liu

A Silverlight color picker (looks like ComboBox), more like the one used within VS 2010 property browser for editing color-type

Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop File Manager

6 May 2010 by defwebserver

A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads

ySurf : A Yahoo! Messenger clone built in Silverlight

28 Mar 2010 by Vinit Yadav

A Yahoo! messenger clone application built with Silverlight and its Duplex Polling WCF service. Explains how to deal with the Yahoo! packet format named YMSG.

Apex Part 1: Create Your First MVVM Application

21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr

Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!

Silverlight Windows User Identity Name

15 Dec 2009 by Webplethora

How to get the Windows user identity name in Silverlight.

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

13 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

Silverlight 3: Slideshow

6 Oct 2009 by CS Rocks

This is a slideshow that works in a Silverlight 3 UserControl.

Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions

23 May 2010 by defwebserver

A simple Silverlight application that uses RX Extensions to communicate with an oData service.

Silverlight Pronunciation Test

29 Apr 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

How to create a pronunciation test tool using Silverlight and Python

Silverlight Cairngorm - Port Cairngorm to .NET

6 Oct 2008 by Modesty Zhang

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

Populating a Silverlight DataGrid with Data from MDB

24 Nov 2009 by raelango

This is a sample project to access Microsoft Access MDB data in Silverlight via OLEDB and dynamically populate a DataGrid.

Synchronous WCF Service Calls with Silverlight

16 Mar 2010 by Valentin Billotte

How to make TRUE sync call in Silverlight

Silverlight

WCF

Generic WPF-Silverlight implementation for IValueConverter

18 Jun 2012 by Clifford Nelson

A generic implementation for IValueConverter.

Silverlight

WPF

Dev

Using Font Icons

12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier

This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.

Changing the background color for one or more columns in a Silverlight DataGrid

2 Jan 2010 by Paul B.

Column.BackgroundColor = "Yellow"? I wish.

Silverlight: Use KnownColor Through the Backdoor

12 Aug 2010 by #realJSOP

Get around another irrational and arbitrary omission in Silverlight

Silverlight

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

Wrapper Pattern for Silverlight and WPF

14 Feb 2010 by Nicolas Dorier

A design pattern to easily bind or animate properties that do not exist on an element, and which works in both Silverlight and WPF

Applying Data Templates Dynamically by Type in WP7

19 Oct 2010 by Florin Badea

This article presents a way to apply data templates dynamically by type in the Windows Phone 7 platform

Silverlight Binary Serialization using Protobuf-net

29 Apr 2010 by Sangsu Park 99

How to serialize a pure .NET object class to a fast binary data

.NET

Silverlight

Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

28 Jul 2010 by Ernesto Herrera

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

Static and Type markup extensions for Silverlight 5 and WPF

22 May 2012 by Henrik Jonsson

An extended Static markup extension implementation for Silverlight 5 and WPF supporting invoking static methods with arguments, and a Silverlight Type markup extension implementation.

Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen

Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera

Draggable Popup Window in Silverlight 3

19 Nov 2009 by dsmolen

Allows a user to drag a popup to any location in the Silverlight window.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

2 Dec 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Use the Managed Extensibility Framework to export dictionary resources using custom ExportProvider in Silverlight

Integrate dynamic HTML pages in your Silverlight app

12 Apr 2013 by NightWizzard

...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

10 Nov 2014 by Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

Declarative Dependency Property Definition with T4 + DTE

18 Aug 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes a technique for specifying WPF / Silverlight Dependency Properties declaratively via attributes.

Silverlight

WPF

Silverlight 4: How to use the all new right click context menu

28 Nov 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This article demonstrates the all new right click feature of Silverlight 4.

Setting non-numeric grid row/column sizes in WPF/Silverlight

14 Apr 2010 by Nish Nishant

John, here's a simpler way to do this. This will also handle strings like "3*" which are valid grid length values in Xaml.private RowDefinition MakeRowDefinition(string height){ RowDefinition rowDef = new RowDefinition(); GridLengthConverter converter = new...

Silverlight

WPF

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions

29 May 2010 by defwebserver

An example of Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions.

A post about Silverlight Focusing Issue

22 Feb 2011 by İlkay İlknur

Silverlight Focusing Issue

Silverlight4

Silverlight

XAML

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

25 Mar 2011 by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Styles in Silverlight

14 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

How to create a Style and attach it to a control in Silverlight.

Silverlight

XAML

Dev

WPF/Silverlight Binding Using Flags Class

8 Jul 2011 by Clifford Nelson

A special class is needed to support binding a set of flags to a View.

Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight

3 Feb 2012 by Dr. Sai

Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight

C#3.0

Silverlight

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

RUXX

1 Sep 2013 by Saif Al Falah

A very novel, fun and fast paced game optimized for AIO!

XML

Silverlight

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

Get the Silverlight Main Dispatcher before the RootVisual has been assigned

27 Feb 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

Ordinarily the Application.Current.RootVisual.Dispatcher property is used to retrieve the System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher for an application. Of course this won't work if performed before the RootVisual has been assigned. To get the Dispatcher for an application before the RootVisual has...

Silverlight

Implementing Two-way Binding of a Numeric Value to a String (such as TextBox.Text)

26 Apr 2010 by George Henry 1954

Presents a class that facilitates high-usability binding of an ordinary TextBox to a numeric property

AutoCompleteBox Binding Custom Objects

5 May 2010 by Peace ON

Introduction...

.NET

Silverlight

Attached Dependency Properties in SilverLight 3/4

27 May 2010 by Andrew Rissing

A tip to overcome limitations in Blend 3 and Blend 4 RC when dealing with attached dependency properties.

Expression-blend

Silverlight

silverlight

14 Aug 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Visual Studio or Expression Blend to start with Silverlight development. Have a look here:- http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/[^]- http://www.silverlight.net/learn/[^]- http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/search/label/Silverlight%20Tutorial[^]Hope this will answer your query.

Silverlight

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

21 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

Silverlight

XAML

Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight: A Gotcha

13 Feb 2011 by Tony Champion (Champion DS)

Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight: A Gotcha

Silverlight

MVVM

How to Implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control?

6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to implement template binding in Silverlight custom control

FireBug like debugging tool for WPF

6 Apr 2011 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

I found a better alternative of snoop... WPF Inspector! http://wpfinspector.codeplex.com/[^]

Silverlight

WPF

Dynamically send WCF endpoint in Silverlight

17 May 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

Silverlight webservice references get harcoded in ServiceReference.ClientConfig. The URLs get set to your development servers. But when you deploy live, the URLs don't match. Here's a way to dynamically change the URL of the service based on which website the Silverlight app is loaded from.

ASM

Silverlight

Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5

17 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Learn about Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 with a simple example

Silverlight File Manager

8 Jan 2012 by Alеksey Nemiro

The Silverlight File Manager on the ListBox control based universal server handler may be working on the ASP .NET WebForms and MVC projects. All requests are sent asynchronously via helper class.

Silverlight

web

How do I drag SubTreeList Item to another TreelistView

11 Feb 2012 by Wonde Tadesse

It's better to look telerik support site.Perhaps this can be the starting point.RadControls Overview[^]

Silverlight4

Silverlight

MVVM

Making WCF Service reference configurable from web.config in Silverlight application

22 Apr 2012 by ManojKumar19

How to make WCF service reference configurabe for Silverlight project(makes easy for deploying on severs like Dev, QA, UAT etc.)

Telerik RadBusyIndicator dose not display in WPF

20 Mar 2013 by wizardzz

I suggest trying their forums:http://www.telerik.com/community/forums.aspx[^]They have great support people who specialize in their software.

Connecting MySQL From SilverLight With Web Services

8 Aug 2013 by adriancs

Silverlight access to MySQL using Web Services.

Silverlight

MySQL

webservice

Web application vs Silverlight application

14 Dec 2013 by Jens Theisen

I develop Silverlight extensively and can comment on that question fairly well.First of all, the Silverlight 5 plugin has no less browser support than the previous version, see this link for a statement by Microsoft.By no means should you prefer Silverlight 4 over Silverlight 5, the...

Silverlight

My Silverlight Barcode Software

18 May 2009 by barcodesoftware

Barcode software application in Silverlight.

Silverlight Captcha Example

1 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

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.

Binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to Dynamic Data via IDictionary (Updated)

26 Mar 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post is a bug fix (due to differences between SL2 and SL3) and expansion on my previous posts on this subject.

Silverlight

Setting non-numeric grid row/column sizes in WPF/Silverlight

22 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Programatically set grid row/column sizes (yes, even "Auto", "*", and "X*" - thanks Nish).

Silverlight

WPF

Summarizing Client Side Asynchronous Invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight

18 Apr 2010 by Tamas Koszoru

Summarizing client side asynchronous invocations in WCF/WCF Silverlight. Introducing ServiceClient class.

Expression Blend Number Guesser using DataStore

31 May 2010 by defwebserver

Creating a Number Guesser in Expression Blend with no code using DataStore

Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive

15 Jun 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

Throttling Silverlight Mouse Events to Keep the UI Responsive

All-Topics

Silverlight

How to Use the New Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?

20 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to use the new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?

Silverlight

Get Mouse Click relative Position

12 Aug 2010 by #realJSOP

If you need to get the position the mouse was clicked, in relation to a specific UI Element, this might help

Silverlight

Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010

4 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here, I am consolidating all the Silverlight Articles that I posted in my Blog and CodeProject for your further reference. It includes articles of last six months.

Silverlight4

Silverlight

MVVM

How to Detect Installed Silverlight Version?

23 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to detect installed Silverlight version?

Silverlight

MVVM Home Grown Version

30 Sep 2010 by David Furshpan

A simple code that shows how to create, bind and inject View and ViewModel

Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (Part 2)

21 Oct 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

How to develop a lookless Silverlight Guage control - Part 2

Silverlight

Search string in grid

28 Oct 2010 by ShashankSinghThakur

u can find solution on below linkhttp://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/10-01-18/highlighting_inline_search_for_radgridview_for_silverlight.aspx[^]

Silverlight

Silverlight: How to Send Message to Desktop Application

1 Nov 2010 by Ondrej_Uzovic

Very simple example showing how to send a message from Silverlight application to standalone desktop application

Using Silverlight Chart Controls With SharePoint 2010

25 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to use Silverlight Chart Control with SharePoint 2010

SharePoint2010

Silverlight

XAML

WCF and Silverlight - Putting Your Code All Together

5 Jan 2011 by jerpat

How to get (almost) all your code in one place when using WCF together with Silverlight

Silverlight

WCF

synchronize

Source code for Certificate Exam in C# Asp.net

28 Feb 2011 by OriginalGriff

"OriginalGriff - 4 mins agoAnd your question is?""Dima Popov - 1 min ago"Give me code"No.We don't do your work for you.If you have a question, then please ask it.If you have a problem with part of the implementation, ask, and we will help as best we can.But we are not...

Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application

24 Mar 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application

All-Topics

Silverlight

LightSwitch

why we are using silverlight ?

31 Mar 2011 by Marc A. Brown

Because your boss told you to?

Silverlight

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

16 Nov 2011 by Ilya Builuk

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

10 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Using StringFormat to concatenate strings in Silverlight XAML.

Silverlight

XAML

Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5

19 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Binding on Style setter in Silverlight 5

Silverlight5

Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Window: The Things I Did Not Like

25 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Features I'd like to see in future releases of Silverlight 5

Silverlight5

Silverlight

How to Close the Browser Window from a Silverlight Application

9 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

If you are developing a secured site and want to close the browser window just after the user logs out from the application, this small tip will help you.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

WPWidgetLibrary HTML5 Widget for Windows Phone 7 Mango

14 Nov 2011 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Imlementation of HTML5 Widget apps in offline mode on Windows Phone 7 Mango.

Migrate from Basic to MVVM and MEF Composable Patterns for a Silverlight Application - Part 3

3 May 2012 by Shenwei Liu

The article series shows how to upgrade a Silverlight application having basic patterns to the MVVM and MEF composable patterns with easy approaches and detailed coding explanations.

How to delete a row from a DataGrid

21 Jun 2012 by Prasad_Kulkarni

Refer similar threads:How to delete selected row from a datagridwith context menu in Silverlight[^]silverlight delete row with delete key[^]Try google[^] first to get best results in quick time.

Silverlight