This week I played around with the Bing Maps Silverlight Control to find out how easy it would be to get a map up and running in an application, place pins on said map and get the name of the country that the user has clicked on. I soon discovered that achieving this functionality was [...]
When using Silverlight, developers have no direct access to the file system on a user’s computer. However Silverlight does use isolated storage as a virtual file system to store data on machines providing the application has the correct file permissions to do so. Additionally, Windows Phone 7 uses isolated storage for saving data to the [...]
I was recently working on a project in Silverlight and required the ability to toggle between two states in a UserControl. When I started working with Silverlight, I would have handled click or mouse events to change the visual state but I soon moved on to work with behaviours and actions so I could remove [...]
For a little while now I’ve had a bit of interest in the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern for Silverlight and WPF so I thought I would finally give it a go and see if I could get an understanding of how to use this pattern.
Yesterday I wrote an article about creating a rotating video player using Silverlight 3 (see here) and I admit that there was an awful lot of text in it, so here is a list of numbered steps for you to follow with less of the rambling in between steps.
Yesterday at work, there was a talk about Silverlight 3 about its capabilities and the improvements over Silverlight 2. The talk featured demonstrations of existing applications and some step by step “how to” tutorials in which I saw how to rotate controls in 3D space and a cool Twitter reader which was made surprisingly quickly; albeit [...]