Modular Silverlight Development, App.xaml, Blend and Resources

As I was working on one of my personal learning projects, I encountered a small problem. The project was Prism based with multiple modules.  I wanted to isolate my resource files, so I created a separate project that included my XAML resources, such as styles.  This approach works just fine by using merged dictionaries in …

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Encryption in Silverlight and .NET Applications

Today I would like to cover a specific use case that came up a few times in Silverlight applications I wrote.  For example, I wand a user to enter some sensitive information, encrypt it in Silverlight client, transfer it over to the server, then decrypt it and perforation some operations on that data. First step …

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XAML Intellisense Stops Working in Visual Studio 2010

Today as I was working on a Silverlight application in Visual Studio 2010, XAML Intellisense just stopped working for me.  Quick internet search yielded no useful results, so I was to figure this out on my own.  Just to test I created a brand new application, and Intellisense was fine there.  Logical answer was that …

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