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Read original post at Paul Sheriff's Blog

When you first start designing XAML screens in either WPF or Silverlight there are several approaches you can take. You can just draw controls on a Grid and let the controls figure out where they are in relation to one another and the Window via the Margin property. You can also a Grid and create a set of Row and Column definitions similar to an HTML table. Another method is to use absolute positioning with a Canvas control.

Dean Willson published the Windows Phone 7, WCF, and SQL Azure presentation he gave at fwPASS.

Source: Dean's Development Cube

Last night I gave a presentation with demos for fwPASS creating a Windows 7 app displaying a list of gymnasts from a SQL Azure database using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). The WCF service used the Entity Framework and the .Net Membership provider.

David Anson has a nice WP7 blog post containing a WebBrowserExtensions workaround and BestFitPanel tweak for layout.

Source: Delay's Blog

One of the neat things about sharing code with the community is hearing how people have learned from it or are using it in their own work. Of course, the more people use something, the more likely they are to identify problems with it - which is great because it provides an opportunity to improve things! This blog post is about addressing two issues that came up around some code I published recently.

Source: Simple-Talk

Silverlight can now be used to write a complete business application that can be run outside the browser. Such an application will probably need to to automatically check, and react to, changes to the network status, as well as automatically download and install updates from the server. It will need to be easily installed from the browser. Richard Costall explains how, with a complete example.

Read original post at SilverSpot

In my previous post you saw how to style the Telerik chart item in Metro Style. However you saw that the Legend was not at all matching the Metro Style. So let’s Style the ChartLegend.

Read original post at Oscar Agreda's Blog

When developers first start building Silverlight applications they typically add all of the code for the application into the XAML’s code-beside file (Home.xaml.cs for example). Although this approach certainly works, by following the MVVM pattern. By doing so you will inherent benefits including better code re-use, simplified maintenance, more modular code and enhanced testing support. I’ll focus on the overall benefits achieved by building applications that are based on the MVVM pattern using the AdventureWorksLT famous database to demonstrate an Invoice in MVVM.

Read original post at Geert van Horrik's Blog

A while ago, I was reading this shocking blog post by Joost van Schaik. It explains that the Behavior.OnDetaching is not always invoked and thus can cause (big) memory issues. He gives a great solution and shows a save way to handle this. He also provides a code snippet to implement this behavior more easily. However, I don’t like writing code twice, even when it is being generated.

Kirupa Chinnathambi has built up a dependency property generator for Silverlight.

Ever since I wrote an article describing dependency properties, many people have been asking me to help debug their dependency property issue. In majority of the cases, the problems were related to the C# equivalent of forgetting to dot an i or cross a t.

The ASP.NET query string is a great way to share data between web pages and different web sites. This information is accessible in Silverlight thanks to the System.Windows.Browser namespace. The following article will explain how to enumerate through the query string collection. From there I will walk you through an example of binding the collection to a Silverlight ComboBox.