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

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

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

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

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

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