Markus Egger
25 Aug 2010
Code Sample Will Auto-Update Silverlight Out-of-Browser App
Markus Egger writes
"...I was surprised to learn that an app taken out of the browser does not automatically update itself when a newer version is available on the server...it turns out you can simply add a few lines of code to the app’s constructor to enable updating. Add the following code to your App class’ constructor..."
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Paul Sheriff
25 Aug 2010
Run this Sample Code to Switch Templates Dynamically in Silverlight
Paul Sheriff writes
"...Silverlight has the flexibility to modify the look of your controls dynamically at runtime with just a few lines of code. Take a look at Figures 1 and 2 and you will see two different views of the same list box and data. To accomplish this, you simply need to setup two different resources of XAML code..."
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Sondre Bjellas
16 Aug 2010
How to Simplify Text Resources in Silverlight
Sondre Bjellas writes
"...simplify the way you work with resources in Silverlight 4. The normal procedure to bind against resources is writing an binding statement in the .Content or .Text property of your elements. I will explain how you can use a dependency property to extend your Silverlight controls with an Resource.Key (ResourceKey) property and one for Resource.Tooltip..."
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Christian Nagel
04 Aug 2010
Data-Centric Silverlight Applications with VS LightSwitch
Christian Nagel writes
"...Can’t wait to try this out and find out about customizations and...This could be a new way to write fast applications for Windows Azure! Hosting the application in Windows Azure, using the SQL Azure database..."
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Paul Sheriff
03 Aug 2010
Sample Code Filters CollectionView Data in Silverlight 4
Paul Sheriff writes
"...For this example, I will be using a simple Product class with two properties, and a list of Product objects using the Generic List class. Try this out by creating a Product class as shown in the following code...A simple way to allow your users to filter data from a collection with just a few lines of code! NOTE: You can download the complete sample..."
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