I just installed Silverlight 3 last Friday.  One feature that I was hoping to see fixed was localization in Silverlight.  Ideally, I like to bind localized data, such as labels in XAML.  For example: <UserControl.Resources> <resources:ModuleResources x:Key="LanguageResource" /> then, <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="7,0,7,0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource LanguageResource}, Path=SomePropertyName}"></TextBlock> This works great, but there is one issue.  …

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I just uploaded and published new CodePlex project I have been working on.  It is an Isolated Storage based database for Silverlight.  It supports multiple strongly typed tables, basic Linq based operations, addition and deletion of ranges of items, deletion of items based on condition.  You can also directly bind data to UI in Silverlight …

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I am planning to write some posts on new features in Silverlight 3.0. I decided to start with the easiest one – out of browser support.  Start by creating new Silverlight application in Visual Studio.  Once it is created, go to properties of the Silverlight application project.  You will see this window: Check “Enable running …

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I am very tired, but Silverlight application our team has been working on for 6+ months is now officially live!  We saw that someone used it over the weekend! More reflections on the project are to come in the next few weeks.

Here are the steps in achieving this task. 1. Setup WCF service. To do this you have to alter web.config file for the web site that hosts the service.  You have to add security setting to basisHTTP binding that is used by Silverlight application to connect to the WCF service.  Here is an example of …

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I encountered an interesting problems today.  I was trying to setup a Silverlight application to run over https.  I was able to successfully run it over HTTP prior to this task.  However, when I switched URL to https://www.mysite.com, I got the error 2104 “Could not download the Silverlight application”.  The solution that I had to …

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During my Introduction to Silverlight presentation at the Atlanta .NET users group, someone suggested that I show how make a button with rounded corners in Silverlight.  I was a bit short on time, and it was getting late, so I decided to write a blog post on the subject matter instead.  So, here it goes. …

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