Jonathan van de Veen has published the third part of his adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application. In this episode Jonathan will have a look at the intricacies of using multiple XAP files for your application.
Jeff Wilcox has a little AutoCompleteBox tip on how to write a new text filter. The default text filter used in the AutoCompleteBox control works well in most situations. But Jeff would like to share an improvement that adds search engine-like "AND" operator support. The example contains Visual Basic code that should be easily translatable to C#.
Alex Golesh also has written a Silverlight tip, but his one is on dynamic animations. In this post Alex will show how to create dynamic animations for any (almost) Silverlight element. He creates some of the popular standard PowerPoint animations.
And we have another tip but this time coming from Lee’s Corner. It’s about changing foreground on row selection in Datagrid. See how to change the foreground of the cells in datagrid when the row is selected without messing with the templates but writing a few lines of code.
Jobi Joy has a post directed to those of you who are going to participate in Mix 10K Coding Challenge. He published a few tips he has used to limit the code size. Here you may also find a link to Jobi’s own creation for the contest.
Tim Heuer has dedicated his last article to Silverlight installation on Linux. If you haven’t been aware, there has been a team at Novell working hard to make a version of Silverlight for Linux. It’s called Moonlight. Read more about this challenging project of the Novell team.
For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, Laurence Moroney is now pleased to announce that Windows Live downloads will include Silverlight in the installation. Learn something more on that subject at Laurence’s blog.
Terence Tsang has a post about double click in his Silverlight vs. Flash site. Silverlight doesn’t have any support for double clicking yet.Anyway, still there are a lot of methods and work around to simulate double click. In this post Terence will show you one.
Laurent Bugnion has published his entry for the MIX 10K competition. It is named ColorClock 10K. Here you will find not only one great entry but also helpful tips on minimization of code size.