Silverlight

Consuming WCF Services in Silverlight

How Silverlight applications call WCF services through generated asynchronous proxies, and the sandbox and binding constraints that shape every call.

Isolated Storage in Silverlight

Silverlight's sandboxed per-application, per-site file system for persisting settings, cached data, and small files on the user's machine without full disk acc…

Migrating Silverlight to Modern Web

A practical playbook for assessing a legacy Silverlight application and choosing between Blazor, a native desktop port, or a full JavaScript rewrite.

Silverlight 3D with Perspective Transforms

How Silverlight's PlaneProjection fakes 3D perspective on flat 2D elements for effects like card flips and tilted UI, and where its limits are compared to true…

Silverlight and RIA Services

How WCF RIA Services generates a shared client/server data layer for Silverlight, cutting out the boilerplate of hand-writing DTOs, proxies, and validation twi…

Silverlight Application Lifecycle

How a Silverlight application started up, ran, and shut down inside the browser plugin, from Application.Startup through Application.Exit.

Silverlight Common Pitfalls

A field guide to the mistakes developers repeatedly make when building Silverlight applications, covering data binding, threading, and deployment traps.

Silverlight Controls

An overview of Silverlight's built-in control library, the ContentControl/ItemsControl hierarchy, and event handling for common interactive controls.

Silverlight Data Binding

How the Binding markup extension connects XAML UI elements to CLR objects, with INotifyPropertyChanged, converters, and validation driving live, two-way update…

Silverlight Debugging

Practical techniques for diagnosing binding failures, cross-thread exceptions, and network issues in Silverlight applications using Visual Studio and browser t…

Silverlight Deep Zoom

How Silverlight's Deep Zoom technology uses multi-resolution tile pyramids and the MultiScaleImage control to smoothly pan and zoom into gigapixel-scale imager…

Silverlight Deployment and XAP Files

How Silverlight applications are packaged into .xap files, built with MSBuild, hosted on a web server, and optionally installed as out-of-browser desktop apps.

Silverlight Graphics and Animation

How Silverlight's vector shape system, brushes, and Storyboard-driven animations combine to build smooth, scalable interactive UI.

Silverlight Interview Questions

Commonly asked Silverlight interview questions covering the runtime model, XAML, data binding, and threading, with the reasoning behind strong answers.

Silverlight Layout Panels

How Grid, StackPanel, Canvas, and other panels arrange and size Silverlight UI content through the measure/arrange layout pass.

Silverlight Legacy Maintenance

Practical guidance for keeping aging Silverlight line-of-business applications running safely now that the plug-in is unsupported by modern browsers.

Silverlight Media Playback

How to play audio and video in Silverlight with the MediaElement control, handle playback and buffering events, and deliver adaptive bitrate video with Smooth…

Silverlight MVVM

How the Model-View-ViewModel pattern organizes Silverlight applications around data binding, keeping views declarative and logic unit-testable outside of code-…

Silverlight Networking

The networking stack Silverlight exposes for HTTP and socket communication, and the security boundaries that govern which requests are allowed to leave the plu…

Silverlight Out-of-Browser Apps

How to configure, install, and elevate Silverlight applications so they run as standalone desktop apps outside the browser sandbox.

The Silverlight Plugin and Browser Hosting

How the Silverlight browser plugin was installed, embedded into HTML pages, and extended through out-of-browser and elevated trust modes.

Silverlight Project Structure

A tour of a typical Silverlight solution: the application project's key files, the AppManifest.xaml, the .xap package format, and the companion ASP.NET hosting…

Silverlight Quick Reference

A condensed reference covering Silverlight's core XAML syntax, binding modes, threading rules, and networking essentials for fast lookup.

Silverlight Resources

How ResourceDictionary scoping, StaticResource lookup, merged dictionaries, and embedded assets let Silverlight applications share and organize reusable object…