Windows Phone 8.1 RT Microsoft has introduced many new features and changes in the Windows Phone 8.1. Isolated Storage is one of the crucial features that has completely changed in Windows Phone 8.1.

C#5.0

Mobile

Windows-Phone-7

.NET4.5

Lync Addin – Send SMS

21 May 2015 by Shai Raiten

Lync Add in Development, How to add custom context menu and CWE application using single code base.

Attached VM Behaviours

23 Mar 2015 by Sacha Barber

Showcase of how to use a sort of Attached Behaviours for ViewModels, and how to build BIG XAML apps

Virtual Keyboard (TabTip) in Silverlight

27 Jan 2015 by Max Fedotov

Implementing support of Virtual Keyboard (TabTip) in Silverlight with elevated trust

Silverlight

XAML

Yahoo! Managed

8 Jan 2015 by MaasOne

Download financial data, managing online portfolio or using Search BOSS from Yahoo! with .NET

Complete Sudoku Game in C#/WPF/Silverlight

1 Jan 2015 by Hung, Han

This article is about converting a VB.NET WinForms application to C# using WPF and Silverlight.

Silverlight Application with Management Entity Framework and WCF Service

20 Dec 2014 by Roger C Moore

A guide to constructing an application using Expression Blend and Silverlight for the front-end which obtains data from a WCF service and SQL Server back-end

Migrating from Silverlight to AngularJS

13 Nov 2014 by Bernardo de Castilho

Learn how you can migrate an application away from Silverlight and into HTML5/JavaScript in this new white paper. In the paper, Bernardo de Castilho takes a simple Silverlight application and walks through, step-by-step, porting the ViewModel and the View into an AngularJS application.

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

Catel - Part 0 of n: Why choose Catel?

3 Nov 2014 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.

Building Localizable Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Calcium

2 Oct 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Leverage existing .resx files to localize Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps in Xamarin.Forms.

A Smart Behavior for DataGrid.AutoGenerateColumns

27 Sep 2014 by Frank W. Wu

Using AutoGenerateColumns to generate exactly as needed data columns

How to Dropdown Any Window?

27 Sep 2014 by Frank W. Wu

Showing you how to use the Popup to create your own dropdown-like window.

MVVM Pattern Made Simple

24 Sep 2014 by Nick Polyak

This article gives an overview of MVVM pattern, its usage and advantages

Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 1 - Prism Modules

24 Sep 2014 by Nick Polyak

Prism tutorial in easy samples

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.

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Building XNA flexible animation class

20 Aug 2014 by valentasm

Silverlight and XNA animation class with automatic animation and flexible sprites loading.

.NET

Silverlight

XNA

Tic Tac Toe Game using Microsoft Silverlight

29 May 2014 by Steven Shahbazi

This tip shows how we can use Silverlight cool features to make a tic-tac-toe game in the web.

.NET Library to Easily Save Property Data

12 May 2014 by Brad Joss

[RegSave] your property to the Registry, and more.

A Silverlight control to parse Excel data into a flat collection

7 Apr 2014 by I.explore.code

It’s not that hard to add the missing bits to Silverlight

21 Mar 2014 by Pete O'Hanlon

Adding some missing bits to Silverlight.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

The right-angle triangle: Meet your new best friend

5 Feb 2014 by Yvan Rodrigues

Did you skip class the day trigonometry was taught? This article will explain what you’ve been missing all these years.

.NET

Silverlight

Dev

How to Add User Customized Properties to Your Silverlight Control

28 Jan 2014 by Jorge J. Martins

It's easy to add user customized properties to any Silverlight control.

DownloadProgress, DownloadProgressOffset, and BufferProgress of the MediaElement

24 Dec 2013 by Anil_gupta

This article is about the DownloadProgress, DownloadProgressOffset, and BufferProgress of the MediaElement.

Let's Get Dirty!

17 Dec 2013 by Jason Gleim

Creating slightly-smarter dirty flags in our model classes

Your First Step to the Silverlight Voice/Video Chatting Client/Server

15 Dec 2013 by Fadi Abdelqader

What you should to do to create your own Silverlight Voice/Video chatting system

Shoot'em Up .NET

6 Nov 2013 by Paulo Zemek

This is a small tutorial on how to create a Shoot'em Up game in .NET using mostly declarative animations.

Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media

18 Oct 2013 by Roger Martin

Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features.

Silverlight ViewModel Unit Testing (RIA Services)

16 Oct 2013 by Anton Kleshchev

This article describes how to write Unit Tests for Silverlight ViewModels with a mocked DomainContext.

C#3.0

Silverlight

Silverlight in Enterprise Application

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Silverlight: Silverlight is a RIA (Rich Internet Application) technology by Microsoft is a well competitor to Flash (who is a

Silverlight vs ASP.NET

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

SilverlightThe Rich User Interface helped to create a website which will make the UI as a desktop application. Silverlight 4.0 even came with out

Silverlight

browser

data

Silverlight

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

"Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive

A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

8 Oct 2013 by Dirk_Strauss

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

ObservableCollection notification on member change - How to ObservableCollectionEx

30 Sep 2013 by Jorge J. Martins

How to have notification on ObservableCollection, not only when the collection changes but also when any member of any of the collection items is changed. How to take advantage of it in a collection binding.

Silverlight

MVVM in Depth

27 Sep 2013 by Member 10269094

This article on MVVM architecture pattern allows the developer to distinguish between loosely coupled and tightly coupled applications.

Carrom+ AIO

20 Sep 2013 by Talha Naqvi

The best and most unconventional virtual carrom application optimized for AIO!

Presentation Patterns for XAML based Applications

17 Sep 2013 by Jani Giannoudis

Design patterns on the presentation layer for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications.

RUXX

1 Sep 2013 by Saif Al Falah

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

XML

Silverlight

Graphic Description Language(GDL) For Silverlight

25 Aug 2013 by Brian Holsen

A mini-language for simple graphic drawing in Silverlight.

Windows

Silverlight

Connecting MySQL From SilverLight With Web Services

8 Aug 2013 by adriancs

Silverlight access to MySQL using Web Services.

Silverlight

MySQL

webservice

Silverlight with MVVM and WCF

23 Jul 2013 by Prabu ram

This article is aimed at helping develop a business application using Silverlight with MVVM and WCF service in a more manageable way.

The Companion App- Search Engine, GeoLocation Browser and Language Translator at one Place

10 Jul 2013 by Bishal Goswami

The Companion App: Its basically a utility app proposed for ultrabook which consists of the likes of a search tool, a geo location browsing tool and a language translator tool.

Scroll Synchronization

29 Jun 2013 by Karin Huber

Synchronizing the scroll position of multiple controls.

Grid960 Layout for Silverlight

11 Jun 2013 by Dave Kerr

The 960 Grid System is a hugely popular layout system for web sites - Grid960 lets you use it in Silverlight!

Silverlight

Dev

How to Comply with Security Standards for Health Care Applications

11 Jun 2013 by Novalys

This article demonstrates how Visual Guard has been able to help meet the strict criteria of health regulations in the United States. It will look at why two major health care actors have integrated Visual Guard into their applications.

A single-file function parser to use with WPF, Silverlight, and SQL Server CLR

6 Jun 2013 by don!marco

A lightweight, single-file function parser, which uses an Excel like syntax.

Silverlight MVVM and Validation through WCF

5 Jun 2013 by Emmanuel Nuyttens

Data validation example for Silverlight WCF enabled project

Windows

Silverlight

WCF

Silverlight OrgChart web part

29 May 2013 by Marek Bieńkowski

This article introduces simple procedure for generating an organization chart with Silverlight technology.

How to Build Powerful Search Forms

21 May 2013 by Xomega Team

A design pattern and implementation example for building advanced search forms

CategorySlider - A discrete slider with objects (categories) insted of values

17 May 2013 by Jorge J. Martins

Using a Slider to select an item from a list of objects (string, numeric, or image) as a discrete value or category.

How to Build Flexible and Reusable WCF Services

6 May 2013 by Xomega Team

Design Patterns and best practices for building flexible and reusable WCF services.

Take MVC to the Next Level in .NET

30 Apr 2013 by Xomega Team

How to quickly build reusable and flexible WPF, Silverlight, or ASP.NET applications with the powerful Xomega Framework using the best MVVM principles.

Customer Order Mapping

29 Apr 2013 by rodney128

A windows Azure development to showcase online geocoding and mapping.

Metro Style ListBox in Silverlight

29 Apr 2013 by Hiren Khirsaria

create Metro theme listbox using style and templates

DB to Browser - Easy Silverlight Overview

17 Apr 2013 by J van Rooyen

A simple article: From DB to Browser using 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...

WCF in a stateful application (WPF/Silverlight)

9 Apr 2013 by David J Rundle

Handling the Faulted state and Closure of a WCF service when being used in a stateful application.

Understand MVVM Using PRISM by Hello World Silverlight Application

25 Mar 2013 by Avtar Sohi

Understand MVVM using PRISM by Hello World Silverlight application.

Silverlight

Dev

MVVM

Multiple-Selection ComboBox for Silverlight

12 Mar 2013 by Frank W. Wu

A tutorial on how to create a Multiple-Selection ComboBox for Silverlight

Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part III

25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea

This article is the third in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7. This article focuses on the implementation of the indicators used with the gauges.

Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part II

25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea

This article is the second in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7.

Performing Select, Insert, Update and Delete with ease in Silverlight 4 using WCF RIA Services

20 Feb 2013 by Uday P.Singh

Article describe interacting with database in Silverlight 4 with ease.

C#4.0

Silverlight

Coming from WPF or Silverlight: What is the WinRT UI framework about?

18 Feb 2013 by PhilipSch

This article seeks to identify differences between the WPF and the Windows RT's UI framework.

Introducing PdfRport

14 Feb 2013 by Vahid_N

PdfReport is a code-first reporting engine which is built on top of the iTextSharp and EPPlus libraries.

Enhanced ObservableCollection with ability to delay or disable notifications

29 Jan 2013 by Eugene Sadovoi

Implements delayed or disabled INotifyCollectionChanged.

CP Vanity for Windows Phone 7

17 Jan 2013 by Don Kackman

A WP7 port of CPVanity with a CodeProject RSS reader.

Silverlight 5 and NSpeex: Capture audio from capture source, encode, save to file, and decode to play

10 Jan 2013 by Amir Eshaq

This article uses NSpeex as a codec to encode/decode audio from a capture source (e.g., computer microphone) within Silverlight.

Silverlight

Silverlight Application with Dispatcher and asynchronous WCF service

8 Jan 2013 by Pranay Rana

Silverlight Application with Dispatcher and asynchronous WCF Service

C#3.5

Silverlight

WCF

How to Display, Save, and Annotate 100+ Image Formats in Silverlight Clients

7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

With minimal effort you can use LEADTOOLS V17 to load and save over 100 file formats, manipulate images with advanced image processing, and implement annotations directly within a Silverlight client application replacing the need for calls to an external server.

How to Read Barcodes from Images using LEADTOOLS

7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

In this article, we will create a simple application that loads an image and reads its barcodes. Try it out for yourself by downloading a fully functional evaluation SDK from the links provided below the tutorial.

A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code

4 Jan 2013 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking application that uses a number of the new Windows Phone 8 features.

ASM

Windows-Phone-8

Silverlight

Anatomy of HTML5/JavaScript Single Page Application in Samples (basics, navigation, composition, communications with the server)

20 Dec 2012 by Nick Polyak

Describes Single Page Applications and a new BPF Framework that helps to develop SPAs.

Commands in MVVM

3 Dec 2012 by Dave Kerr

A consistent approach to Commands, Asynchronous Commands, and Events-to-Commands for WPF, Silverlight, and WP7.

HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 1 - JavaScript and DOM.

30 Nov 2012 by Nick Polyak

JavaScript/DOM basics for WPF/Silverlight/C# developers

Capture Image from Webcam using Silverlight

8 Nov 2012 by I.explore.code

Capture a frame from live webcam feed and save it as an image file to disk

C#4.0

Windows

Silverlight

Rapid Development of Engineeging Web Site

1 Nov 2012 by Petr Ivankov

From desktop to Web

Build a Pandora clone with Silverlight 4

23 Oct 2012 by Judah Gabriel Himango

Exercising Silverlight 4 to build a fun, real-world app

A Tale of Two CoverFlows

18 Oct 2012 by Ian Reah

Two basic coverflow controls - one in JavaScript and one in Silverlight

PocketWorld-Ultrabook Travel App

9 Oct 2012 by Muhammad Shareef

This article is about the windows 8 metro style tour and travel app that use ultrabook features with ease of usability.The app is on its way to publish.

Get method name from an eventhandler with WinDbg

27 Sep 2012 by Charles Ju

This article describes how to get the method name from an EventHandler with WinDbg.

HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 2 - Solar System Animation built with SVG, Knockout and MVVM Pattern.

26 Sep 2012 by Nick Polyak

Creating Solar System animation in HTML5/JavaScript

Programmatic type-safe bindings

18 Sep 2012 by Jens Theisen

Using "{Binding X.Y.Z}" in a type-safe way in your code.

Bindable Converter, Converter Parameter and StringFormat

18 Sep 2012 by Henrik Jonsson

How to work around that Binding's Converter, ConvertParameter and StringFormat cannot be specified as dynamic Bindings.

The Simplest Binding Example Ever

5 Sep 2012 by BalintN

This example shows you all three things to learn about binding.

Access Control in Multi-Tenant Applications with Visual Guard

31 Aug 2012 by Novalys

As companies look for different ways to manage their IT needs, “Multi-tenant” and “SaaS” applications are becoming more and more common. However, they also pose unique challenges. We will look at security administration and user management in a multi-tenant application with Visual Guard.

Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen