Tag Archives: Silverlight 3

The new Cider Silverlight and WPF designer: Even more fun for the frontend developer

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On Monday Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, the newest edition of their integrated development for .NET, Native Windows Development and Silverlight. One of the things that has improved greatly is the Cider designer. This designer is the core component in Continue reading →

Silverlight 3: Loading Merged Resource Dictionaries runtime

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To customize the look of our application in Silverlight 3, we organize everything “look related” in Styles and put those styles in ResourceDictionaries. Usually by adding those styles in XAML to the Resources property of the current user control. In Continue reading →

Silverlight 3: Securing your WCF service with a custom username / password authentication mechanism

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There seems to be a lot of confusion on the web about how to secure the backend WCF service of your Silverlight application, with a username and a password. In Silverlight 2, things were a bit tricky. The generated proxies Continue reading →

A complete Silverlight 3 Drag and Drop solution, inspired by Flex’ DragManager

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In RIA’s  it often happens that you need some kind of drag and drop support. Flex has provided in this support, with it’s DragManager class. This is a class with static methods like StartDrag, you only have to supply a Continue reading →

Silverlight 3 new features, pitfalls and oddities

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Well, this is my first blog post at this community, and I’m not even going to introduce myself, because that’s what the “About” link on the right is for [:)]. So without further delay, let’s get started with my first Continue reading →