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Introduction to MVC 3. Tutorial : Using the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications - The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site. Getting Started Walking Through a Silverlight Application Take a tour of the XAML and Javascript generated by an application template that's installed with the Silverlight SDK. Organizing XAML Assets Learn how to organize XAML assets in Expression Design and Expression Blend to maximize developer efficiency. Hosting HTML Content This video demonstrates various ways you can use existing HTML content within your Silverlight application including full pages, fragments, or syndicated content. Understanding Mouse Input Learn about Mouse input and how to use some of the mouse functionality available in Silverlight. Using Custom Fonts Learn how to download and use a custom font with a Text Block in Silverlight. Adding Silverlight to a Web Page Learn what "silverlight.js" helper file is used for and what the parameters on the Silverlight plug-in can do.

Silverlight 5 Silverlight 5 Release Overview In this video, Pete provides an overview of the new and updated features in the release of Silverlight 5. How to: Build a Duplex Service for a Silverlight Client. This topic describes how to create a duplex Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that can communicate with a Silverlight client. A duplex service maintains a callback channel to the Silverlight client, which allows the service to make calls to the client. Duplex services have numerous applications including, for example, a chat server for instant messaging or a monitoring service that sends notifications to the client. This sample provides a service that allows a client to order a specified number of product items by name.

It simulates processing the order and then calls back to the client with status on the order. In duplex messaging, both service and client expose service contracts, which specify the operations that each of them exposes to the other. In this example, we use the following pair of service contracts. To create a WCF duplex service to work with Silverlight To use PollingDuplexHttpBinding To use NetTcpBinding Example See Also.

WCF RIA Services : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site. Skip to main content Silverlight Developer Center Sign in United States (English) © 2014 Microsoft. Getting Started with Silverlight development. Silverlight Games Sample. TruckWars is a simple SilverLight real-time-strategy game. For each level, you control various trucks (and other vehicles), and use them to push down all the green buttons. Enemy trucks will try to stop you. As always, learning Silverlight through games is fun and effective. You get to learn and play at the same time. This is one good game for you to learn how to move objects around with and without obstrucles.

The intent is to have a system of interacting objects where the whole is more that the sum of the parts. For example, units can move, attack, push, carry, grow, heal, crush, and even clone. Play Online - Download Source Code. Natural Earth. Silverlight maps. Mapping isn't just about route planning. Representing data as maps is an important task and with the help of a Map control you can do geospatial statistics and more in Silverlight. First thing to clear up - this isn't about using Bing Maps or Google Earth in Silverlight. You can do both fairly easily - see Getting started with the Bing Maps Silverlight Control What this project is about is creating maps used to present data.

The Infragistics' two new NetAdvantage Data Visualization toolsets, one for WPF, the other for Silverlight contain lots of handy and impressive data presentation components and they work in roughly the same way. It is assumed that you have the Infragistics Data Visualization components installed and a copy of Visual Studio all setup and ready to go. We also have a copy of Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight to give away, details are at the end of this article.

Shapefiles The first problem is getting a Shapefile. Bing Maps Silverlight Control & Map Cruncher & Custom Tile Source : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site. Silverlight 4 Tutorials | New Features. Source code for Silverlight 2 controls | Tamir Khason - Just code.