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by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/10/2012 8:14:00 PM
Sometime we may need to download images from external location to our Windows Phone 7 Media Library. Few days ago, I tried to implement the same in one of my application. Initially, I thought that it is very easy to implement but later noticed the complexity. I did few R&D with Mayur Tendulkar to implement the same and came up with a solution. Thanks to Mayur for helping me out. It this post, I will discuss the way of implementation of it with the full code snippet. Continue reading ...
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by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/6/2012 6:00:00 AM
Busy Indicator is a tool which you can add in your Silverlight or WP7 application to show a loading indication to your user while doing some sort of operations. This is just to let the user know that something is going on. Here in this article, we will learn how to use Telerik BusyIndicator control in your Windows Phone 7 and let the user know that some operations are going on in the background. In Windows Phone 7 SDK, we don’t have any special control to show the Busy indi ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/5/2012 6:21:00 AM
Here comes the most popular 5 posts of the week (29th January 2012 to 4th February 2012) at silverlight-zone.com. This week most viewed posts were from Daniel Rubino, @f5Debug, SilverSpot, Barry Lapthorn and Joe Mayo. Read more to find out the popular links read by the developer community. Don’t forget to follow @SilverlightZone on Twitter. Become a “Fan” of our Facebook Page by clicking the “Like” button to stay updated. Subscribe to our Newsletter in case you want to get digest mail notif ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/22/2012 12:08:00 PM
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by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/19/2012 10:00:00 PM
We all know the process to embed a Silverlight application inside a Webpage using div and object tag. When we create a new Silverlight application project, those tags automatically generates by the IDE inside the html and aspx pages. In many cases we need to dynamically add the Silverlight application inside a webpage. In this post, we will learn the process to host ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/8/2012 6:00:00 AM
Here comes this week’s (1st January 2012 to 7th January 2012) news digest on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and Metro UI. We have submitted ~63 new article links at Silverlight-Zone.com. Read more to find out the top 5 posts of the week. Also, find out the daily digest links here. Sharing those here too, in case you missed those it will be helpful. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get those links directly delivered to your inbox. Popular 5 Posts of the Week He ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/26/2011 6:00:00 AM
“Fun with Silverlight 4” authored by Rajesh Lal illustrates more than 100 features in Silverlight using a simple problem/solution approach. It takes one feature at a time and guides you in progressive journey where you begin by using the basic components, then by creating graphics and animations. I am feeling Proud to be the Technical Reviewer of the book and will recommend everyone to purchase this book to keep it as reference. In this post, find my review note, link to purchase it ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/25/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the Weekly Digest (18th December to 24th December) of Silverlight-Zone.com. During this week we have submitted 65 article links at Silverlight-Zone on various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Metro Style Applications. In this post, I am going to share the top 5 posts of the week. Top viewed posts were from actuary21c, Evan Hutnick, Glen Gordon, @mbcrump and @kunal2383. Read more to find out the top 5 links. Finally Merry X-MAS to all of you. Top 5 Posts of ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/22/2011 7:23:00 AM
One month ago, I started a discussion thread “What is the Future of Silverlight?” and received a good amount of feedback on the future of the same. Some provided positive feedback and some had negative feedback. As declared earlier, I am going to announce the Winners name from the discussion thread here, as I wanted to giveaway some licenses to my blog readers on the eve of X-MAS. Click more to see if you are one of the lucky winner to Win Telerik or Pluralsight license. All the best! ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/16/2011 9:06:00 AM
You might know that, Silverlight 5 has been already released by Microsoft. During the previous releases of Silverlight 5, I have published many articles on it. Here in this post, I am clubbing all of them so that, it will help you to find them in a single page as a great resource to start with Silverlight 5. Here is a collection of Silverlight 5 Tutorials that you may want to read while working with the Silverlight 5. Find all the links that I have published in my blog. Do you have any ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/4/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here is the post on Weekly News Digest at Silverlight-Zone.com. During the week (27th November 2011 to 3rd December 2011), we have submitted ~65 new article links collected from different blog feeds. The posts were on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and WinRT Metro. In this post, find the top 5 posts of the week, also sharing the most popular 5 posts of the month near to the end of the post. On regular basis, sharing the daily news digests links at the end. We had a news on th ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/28/2011 6:00:00 AM
Do you want to integrate the network connection settings page (like: Airplane, Bluetooth, Cellular and/or WiFi) in your Windows Phone 7 application? Then this article will help you step-by-step to understand and integrate it. Connection Settings page are those, where you can configure your connection types and various parameters of the connection. Windows Phone 7 SDK exposes the APIs for you to integrate them in your application. In this tutorial, we will discuss about these with a nice ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/27/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the weekly digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week, we have submitted 83 article links on various technologies like Silverlight, LightSwitch, Windows Phone 7 etc. In this post, find the top links. Also, the link towards daily news digest is also available at the end of the post. Top 5 posts were from @Debug_Mode, @jmarbutt, @kunal2383, @twmurph and @TimHuckaby. Don’t miss to read out those posts. If you have blog and you are writing article/posts on the said technologies, ...
Here comes the weekly digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week, we have submitted 83 article links on various technologies like Silverlight, LightSwitch, Windows Phone 7 etc. In this post, find the top links. Also, the link towards daily news digest is also available at the end of the post. Top 5 posts were from @Debug_Mode, @jmarbutt, @kunal2383, @twmurph and @TimHuckaby. Don’t miss to read out those posts. If you have blog and you are writing article/posts on the said technolo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/23/2011 6:00:00 AM
When the power of HTML5 on Windows 8 was first showcased, we have seen a lot of rumours on the future of Silverlight. Many online article mentioned that, it is the end of Silverlight. Some said Microsoft is going to stop the development of Silverlight after this Silverlight 5 release and there will be no Silverlight 6 in future. Is it really so? Let us discuss this topic here. I am not going to write an article this time. We will have a discussion on this topic, your career goal on this ...
When the power of HTML5 on Windows 8 was first showcased, we have seen a lot of rumours on the future of Silverlight. Many online article mentioned that, it is the end of Silverlight. Some said Microsoft is going to stop the development of Silverlight after this Silverlight 5 release and there will be no Silverlight 6 in future. Is it really so? Let us discuss this topic here. I am not going to write an article this time. We will have a discussion on this topic, your career goal on this plat ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/20/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here is our weekly digest post of Silverlight-Zone.com. During 13th November to 19th November, we have submitted 69 new posts in our database. Find the top 5 posts running on the site here. Also, we have links to daily digest pages. If you missed one, you can easily find it here. If you have blog and you are writing article/posts on the said technologies, please share us the link below (as comment) and we will make sure to include them to spread all over the social networking sites. Read Mo ...
Here is our weekly digest post of Silverlight-Zone.com. During 13th November to 19th November, we have submitted 69 new posts in our database. Find the top 5 posts running on the site here. Also, we have links to daily digest pages. If you missed one, you can easily find it here. If you have blog and you are writing article/posts on the said technologies, please share us the link below (as comment) and we will make sure to include them to spread all over the social networking sites. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/15/2011 9:52:00 PM
On last Saturday, 12th November 2011, I presented 1 hour Technical session on “Windows Phone 7” in Kolkata Developer Conference. The event was organized by Microsoft User Group Kolkata (KolkataGeeks). It is the premier technical event for technology professionals at Kolkata interested in learning, connecting and exploring latest Microsoft technologies. In this post, I will recap my Windows Phone 7 session. I will also share the Session Slides (PPT), Demos and related Article links. Some ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/13/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com for the week 6th November 2011 to 12th November 2011. Once again the “Future of Silverlight” hit the developers. Lots of rumours we have seen during the week on Silverlight. Still waiting to hear about the future from the voice of Microsoft. Find the top 5 posts made by Mike James, John Callaham, @maryjofoley, @JeremyLikness and @Telerik. Also find out the daily news digest links, if you missed any one during last week. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/8/2011 6:00:00 AM
Behaviors are most demanded feature to include in Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and/or WPF applications to implement proper MVVM pattern to do some UI level actions. These are pluggable on demand and don’t need any other extra code to integrate. Just a simple XAML change and you are done. In this article, we will learn how to use the inbuilt “PlaySoundAction” behavior to add sound effect on button click. We will demonstrate it using Windows Phone 7 application. Read more to learn. Comple ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/6/2011 6:00:00 AM
Weekly News Digest of Silverlight-Zone.com is up once again. We publish this digest every Sunday. As regular, find herewith the “Top 5 Posts of the Week” and “Daily News Digests” links. During the week, we submitted 71 article links related to Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Metro, LightSwitch, XAML etc. We submitted these links from various authors. If you are also writing blog posts on those topics, please share us your blog link so that, we can contribute them to the site to reach ou ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/30/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. This week i.e. 23rd October to 29th October, we have submitted 61 article links in our database and the total link count raised to 3255 till now. Thanks to Michael Crump and Silverlight Gal for their contributions towards Silverlight-Zone community portal. In this post, I am going to share the popular 5 posts of this week, which were visited mostly by our readers. Also, sharing the Daily News Digest links of the week. If you m ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/23/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the “Weekly News Digest at Silverlight-Zone.com. During this week (16th October 2011 to 22nd October 2011) we have submitted ~67 news items in Silverlight-Zone. I appreciate the time of our Contributors who spent some of their valuable time to help the Silverlight-Zone community grow. Read more to find out the top 5 posts of the week which were top visited by our readers. As usual, I am also posting the Daily News Headline links of this week. You may find it useful in case yo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/17/2011 6:00:00 AM
Boryana Miloshevska published this eBook “Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth” in WindowsPhoneGeek.com. The book includes hands on guide with code to demonstrate all the controls available in the Windows Phone 7.1 Toolkit (August 2011). Click “Read More” to know about this book and find the links to download the eBook for Free. Hope this book will be a great help to you. Don’t forget to visit the book’s page to say a “Thanks” to the Author of the book. Do ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/16/2011 6:51:00 AM
Here comes the weekly news digest at SilverlightZone.com. During last week (9th October 2011 to 15th October 2011) we submitted 63 news posts on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and Visual Studio 11. We have also seen the launch of Windows Phone 7 in India. As usual, here in this post, I am going to share the top 5 posts of the week followed by the links towards Daily News Digest. If you missed to read some posts, you can find them here. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to rec ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/14/2011 12:39:00 PM
Finally received my Microsoft MVP Certificate and Kit yesterday. The kit consists of the MVP ring for 2011, MVP pin and the MVP ID-Card. You might already know that, I have been awarded 2nd time as Microsoft Silverlight MVP. To read about it, you may visit my post “Awarded Microsoft MVP (Silverlight) for the Second Time - October 2011”. In this post, I am sharing some snaps of the MVP 2011 ring and the Certificate. On October 1st 2011, I received the mail from Microsoft stati ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/13/2011 6:00:00 AM
Last day we discussed about “Silverlight Page Navigation Framework” where we understood the basic concept. We learnt how to add pages in the project from the template and the root of the page xaml. We also learnt about the assembly which we need to use to develop a navigation application using Silverlight. Today in this post, we will discuss about Uri Mapping which will help you to implement the navigation application very easily. You will also be able to hide the actual Url of the page ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/11/2011 6:00:00 AM
Let us start with a three days tutorial series on Silverlight Navigation Framework. Today in this post, we will discuss about Page Navigation Framework in Silverlight. Here we will learn what the Page is, how to kick start with navigation framework and details about this. This post will help to understand the basic knowledge of it. You will find it handy while developing your Silverlight application. Next two days, we will learn how to map a page URL and pass parameter to the page using ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/9/2011 6:00:00 AM
Today posting the last week’s news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week (2nd October 2011 to 8th October 2011), we have submitted ~76 news links in SilverlightZone on different topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and LightSwitch. It’s our effort to share the already available good content to you. As usual, this post will cover the Popular 5 Posts of last week and link towards daily news digest for your reference. Share us your thoughts and views about Silverlight-Zone.c ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/8/2011 6:00:00 AM
Sometime we want to show the System Information to the user, whether it is an Application or a simple Game. We need to show those system specific information to the Windows Phone 7 user by using an System page. So, in such case, how will you fetch those information and show them to the user? Well, this post will help you to understand it and let you know about this data in Windows Phone 7 device. Read to learn more about this topic. Know about System.Environment Under the Sy ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/6/2011 6:00:00 AM
The root class of the Windows Phone 7 page includes two attributes called “Orientation” and “SupportedOrientations”. Those are actually enum values and provides you option to set the orientation of your page programmatically. Today in this post we will describe about it in depth. If you are new to Windows Phone 7 programming, you will find this tip handy to understand about the page orientation on Phone page. Read to know more about this. What is Orientation and SupportedOrie ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/5/2011 11:22:00 PM
Silverlight 5 Toolkit is now available in CodePlex site. This is the first version of Silverlight 5 Toolkit targeting Silverlight 5 RC build. This is also a first release of Silverlight Toolkit after April 2010. It took more than one year to release this bits. No Silverlight 4 toolkit available yet. In this post, I am going to share the downloadable location as well as the new components available in this release. Read to know more about them. Download Silverlight 5 Toolkit ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/1/2011 6:00:00 AM
During September 2011, we have seen a no. of product releases by Microsoft including Silverlight 5 RC, Expression Blend 5 Preview, Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Final. It was a busy month, no doubt. I also did a no. of posts (26) in my blog which has 15 articles. In this post, I am going to share all the posts submitted here in my blog as separate category. This will help you to find out the proper post that you are searching i ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/30/2011 6:00:00 AM
That’s a good question asked by Alan in my last post “Why the Frame Rate Counter is not available in my Windows Phone 7 Emulator?” Ok, to answer to this query, there could be some different issues/solutions for this. Let’s discuss more on this query here. If you are facing the same issue, this post might help you. There could be different possibilities too. If you have different solution, please use the comment link to submit your approach here. Possible Reasons If you didn’ ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/28/2011 5:44:00 PM
Few days ago, I did a Giveaway contest of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and LightSwitch here “Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application - Day 3 - Giveaway Contest” and received a good nos. of tweets from people who attended this contest to Win the license. Today in this post, I am going to announce the Winner of the contest. Read the post to check whether you are the lucky Winner of the Telerik License. Contest Telerik offered a prize to one of my blog read ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/18/2011 6:00:00 AM
It was a busy schedule this week and we experienced the latest news in Microsoft front. In BUILD event, Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview along with .Net 4.5 and Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview. After build session, people started discussing on the future of Silverlight and hence during the week this topic was top demanded. Top posts were from @JeremyLikness, Scott M. Fulton, @mossyblog, Janvanderhaegen and Jonathan Allen. Find the ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/11/2011 8:14:00 AM
Here comes the Weekly Digest post at Silverlight-Zone.com. During the week (4th September to 10th September) we have submitted many posts on Silverlight (especially Silverlight 5), Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and other related stuffs. Our motto is to deliver the already posted good articles/news to you as a single medium. Your continuous support to this boosts the energy to serve the community better. In this post, find out the Top 5 posts visited at Silverlight-Zone. Most of the top a ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/9/2011 6:00:00 AM
Yesterday we discussed on Silverlight 5 RC Feature called PInvoke. Hope that was informative for you. We learned how to call system APIs from Silverlight application. We demonstrated this using In-Browser application, but you can use that for Out-Of-Browser too easily. In Silverlight 4, if we wanted to access system drive or any files, we had to use the COM APIs and this was only applicable from Out-Of-Browser applications. In this article, we will show you the way to access system reso ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/8/2011 12:05:00 AM
Silverlight 5 RC (Release Candidate) has been already released. There are some new features already included in this build. Among them, one most important feature is PInvoke. PInvoke means Platform Invoke. By using this, you can directly talk to system resources without using COM APIs. In this article, we will explore it more and show you how to open the "Run Dialog" directly from the Silverlight 5 application. Here also, we will use In-Browser application which you can easily ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/7/2011 6:00:00 AM
Friends, as I mentioned last 2-3 days, the day finally arrives when I am going to Kick-Off the Giveaway contest for you. Yes, you heard correct. Telerik is going to give you a FREE License of RadControls Library for Silverlight which you can use for both Silverlight and LightSwitch application development. The prize value of the License of this library is $799 and you can get this absolutely FREE. Just you have to follow some simple steps to Win this license. The contest will stay for j ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/6/2011 1:00:00 AM
Yesterday in the blog post "Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application - Day 1 - Setup the Screen", we discussed about the prerequisite, setting up project, creation of Table and Screens for LightSwitch application. We created a simple screen of data grid from some data present in the table. In this post, we will discuss on integration of Telerik Chart control in LightSwitch application. This will not only help you Telerik control integration but will help you to add ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/5/2011 1:00:00 AM
If you are working on LightSwitch application, you may probably need to use UserControl or you may need to use Telerik controls or any other 3rd party controls. So, in such case, how will you add UserControls in LightSwitch application? In this article series, I will show you how to add a UserControl in LightSwitch app using the Telerik RadChartControl. This will give you basic understandings of the use of RadChartControl. At the end of the series, there will be a Giveaway of T ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/3/2011 1:00:00 AM
As of now, you might know that, Silverlight 5 RC (Release Candidate) has been released by Microsoft on 1st September 2011. If you are not aware of that, or if you didn't yet download the latest bits of Silverlight 5, visit "Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available - Download Silverlight 5 RC" to know about this release as well as download the installer to start developing your applications. So, what's new in this release of Silverlight 5? There are many but in this pos ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/1/2011 11:10:00 PM
Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now available from Microsoft. They just released the RC build to public. You will be able to download it freely from Microsoft Download Center. In this post, I am going to share the link of the Silverlight 5 RC Tools for Visual Studio 2010. Download it and start building your application. Make sure that, it's not in "Go-Live" license, so you can't deploy the Silverlight applications build with this release to production. This build is just fo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/28/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week (i.e. from 21st August 2011 to 27th August 2011) we have submitted 78 new links in Silverlight-Zone on various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XAML, MVVM, XNA and more. Most popular post was "Fundamental MVVM" from John Papa. In this post, I am going to share the top 5 visited posts @SilverlightZone during last week. Also, I am going to share the daily news digest links in case y ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/26/2011 6:00:00 AM
Few days ago, I published a XAML Tips "How to Convert a Rectangle to a Path Control using Expression Blend?". Today in this post, we will discuss on another tips similar to that post. In this post, we will discuss on the steps to crop an element to give a desired output. This post will help a beginner who just started designing XAML using Expression Blend. Hope, this small tip will help you to understand it in better way. Read to know more on this topic. Begin with ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/24/2011 11:52:00 AM
Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download. Microsoft released this version with “Go Live” license, that means, you can now build production applications and submit them to the Marketplace. This build also empowers the developer to build applications and games both for WP7.0 and WP7.1 devices. In this post, find the link to the web installer and standalone/offline installer. Download, install and start building your games or applications. Overv ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/24/2011 6:00:00 AM
This will be a short tip of the day where I will show you the way to convert a Rectangle or a Ellipse control to a Path control. If you are not familiar with Expression Blend and currently working with it to design your UI, this tip will definitely help you in various scenarios. Let’s start with a small demonstration using Rectangle control. You can do the same for Ellipse too. Read to know more. Begin with the Rectangle Let us begin our demo with a rectangle control. We wil ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/22/2011 6:00:00 AM
Proud to announce that, I have been selected as the Winner of Article writing competition at "The Code Project" for the month of July 2011. This is the first competition that I have won from Code project. Last month I wrote an article on Silverlight which demonstrated the steps require to do the communication between two local Silverlight applications. This article was well appreciated by the readers and my sincere thanks to all community fellows to support me by providing the ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/17/2011 6:00:00 AM
Sometime we need to bind the same data in different properties of the same control. For example, in some cases we need to show text in a TextBlock and also want to show the same text as a Tooltip to that TextBlock control. How to do it? It's very easy to bind the same value twice in the control. But is there any other way to implement the same? Let us discuss this today in this blog post. If you are not aware of it till date, you will definitely like. Let us discuss t ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/12/2011 6:00:00 AM
Sometime we need to detect the browser information of the user's computer where our Silverlight application is running. We can do this using the JavaScript but sometime it is useful to detect it from our Silverlight application. So, how to do it? Let us discuss this with a small simple example. Read this post to know how to detect the browser information using the HtmlPage.BrowserInformation property. Know about HtmlPage.BrowserInformation Detecting browser information is no ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/10/2011 6:00:00 AM
"Why my Visual Studio debugger is not working for my Silverlight application?" - it's not a new question. People ask this several time in different forums. If you search on net, you may probably find the solution. But, in this post I am just sharing the solution once again for my blog readers and anyone on the net who may face similar issue in future. In this post, I will share you 4 small tips. Just follow the steps from top to bottom and let me know which one resolved your p ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/9/2011 6:00:00 AM
All most all secured sites like bank websites asks you to close your browser window after you signed out from the web application. This is due to high security which actually removes all session details from the browser cache. If you want to develop the same behavior in your Silverlight application, how will you do this? This post covers the code to implement the functionality of the same. Read to know more. If you are developing a secured site and want to close the b ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/6/2011 6:00:00 AM
If you work in XAML pages, sometime you might noticed that the XAML page freezes for sometime while opening the page in design view. This is very annoying and many time it is responsible to crash the Visual Studio IDE. So what to do? If you use Expression Blend to design the XAML page or don't want to open the XAML in design view, this small tip will help you to improve the performance of the IDE. Read more to know. If you noticed that your Visual Studio IDE freezes or crashe ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/31/2011 6:00:00 AM
Last week was a busy week in Microsoft Technology. We noticed lots of releases during the whole week and hence increased the no. of posts in Silverlight-Zone.com too. During the week, 24th July 2011 to 30th July 2011, we have total 87 new article and news links posted here on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and LightSwitch. In this weekly news digest, I am going to share the popular 5 posts of the week and links to all the daily digest pages. Most popular posts are on News of "WP7 Man ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/27/2011 7:53:00 PM
Microsoft released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 on 26th July 2011. This is the first version of the product. You already known about this but those who are new to this product, let me tell about it first. This is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a Data Source targeted for the desktop and cloud by writing a minimal code. In this post, I am going to share the download links (both Web an ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/26/2011 6:00:00 AM
Sometime it is require to communicate between two local Silverlight applications. Though this situation is very limited but it may require as per your business deal. In such case, the local messaging mechanism comes into the place. In this post, we will learn about this local messaging system using a small Silverlight application where we will have a sender project and a receiver project. At the end of the article, I embedded the demo which will give you more visibility on what we are g ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/24/2011 6:00:00 AM
During the week 17th July to 23rd July, we have 68 new article links at Silverlight-Zone.com which consists of various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XAML and Blend. In this weekly news digest, I am going to share the popular 5 posts of the week and links to all the daily digest pages. Most popular posts are on "A Collection of WP7 (Mango) Tutorials", "3rd Part of Data Driven Application with MVVM", "Metro Theme Customization7", &quo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/21/2011 7:35:00 PM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a Data Source without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. This eBook collects all 5 Chapters of Silverlight Show article series 'Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beta 1)' for your offline reference. In this post, I am going to share the Contents of this eBook. Al ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/18/2011 6:00:00 AM
Recently I had started exploring Windows Phone 7 with first Mango update and accumulated a no. of beginners tutorial in my blog. In this post, I am going to share all the chapters of the series as "31 days with WP7" - a must needed guide for a beginner who wants to learn about Windows Phone 7 programming. Hope, this will be helpful to you to understand the basics before jump start to the application development. This post is on popular demand and I am dedicating this to all my ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/17/2011 6:00:00 AM
The weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com released. We have 63 new article links posted in Silverlight-Zone on different topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and LightSwitch. In this post, I am going to share the top most 5 links as well as the daily digest links for your reference. This week (10th July 2011 to 16th July 2011) top post was on the future of Silverlight and whether Silverlight is really dead. This post was made by Stephan Forte. A good discussion on Silverlight a ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/14/2011 6:00:00 AM
Many time we need to change the layout type of any panel present inside the page. This is mainly a designers job but sometime developers need to change them on their requirement. In that case, people need to find out the start and end tag of the panel and change them accordingly. This is little bit a tricky process. In this post, I am going to share you the easy process to switch between different layout types. If you are a designer or using Expression Blend, you are already familiar wi ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/10/2011 6:00:00 AM
The Weekly News Digest of Silverlight-Zone.com is out. This week we have total 71 article news posted in Silverlight-Zone on various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and XNA. Like always, Windows Phone 7 articles are trending much than Core Silverlight articles. I think, to start viewing some new links on Silverlight, we have to wait more time for the next build of Silverlight 5. In this post, I am going to share all the daily news digest so that, you can find the a ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/8/2011 6:00:00 AM
If you are a XAML designer and creating controls for Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 or WPF, you may come in some situation that the custom properties for the controls are not properly organized by the developers. If you come into such situation forward this link to the developers and they may find it useful. In this article, we will learn how to well organize the custom properties of your control so that, designers can easily search in appropriate location. Read to know more about it. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/6/2011 6:00:00 AM
Sometime we need to show a circular loader in WPF and/or Silverlight. We may need it in Windows Phone 7 too. In simple statement, we need to show a circular loader in various XAML applications like Silverlight, WP7 and WPF. In this article, we will learn how to create a Circular Loader as shown in the screenshot. I will not use a single line of C# code to create this loader. Everything will be in the XAML file itself to keep the code behind file clean. Read to know more about it step- ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/5/2011 6:00:00 AM
Input Scope of a TextBox defines the information related to the scope of the data provided by the input method and use to define the layout of the onscreen keyboard of the device. It is present in the "System.Windows.Input" namespace and exposed in TextBox as a property called "InputScope". You might be wondering what is this property and why should one use it. Ok, let us discuss this in depth with a small sample. After reading this chapter, you will be able to under ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/4/2011 6:00:00 AM
On coming Saturday, 9th July 2011, I am going to take an hour session on "MVVM from Scratch using Silverlight" in the Pune User Group's (PUG) monthly meeting. The session will start from 10 AM and will continue for one hour. Also there are two more sessions on Windows Phone 7 and Parallel Programming. In this one hour session, I will demonstrate what is MVVM pattern, how a designer/developer will get the benefit of using it. I will also demonstrate how this will help you to cl ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/3/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the weekly digest of Silverlight-Zone.com from 26th June 2011 to 2nd July 2011. We have completed 6 months of this site with more than 2000 news items. We received some good feedback too including a huge hit to the site. This motivates us to serve you better in future. In this post, I am going to share the top 5 posts of this week. Windows Phone 7 is trending in this site. Top 5 posts are "The news of distribution of WP7 Mango to developers by Microsoft", "Wi ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/2/2011 6:00:00 AM
Microsoft released Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 on 29th June 2011. Earlier it was named as Windows Phone Developer Tools. While releasing the beta 2 version of the Software, they renamed it to Windows Phone SDK 7.1. Today I downloaded the SDK and installed it in my laptop. Sharing the same experience here just in case you want to read it. This will also help a beginner to kick start on the same. Download Before starting with the installation process, you need to download the ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/28/2011 6:00:00 AM
Do you know that, Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) now supports local database? Yes, you can now use local database inside your Phone 7 device and use it to CRUD operations. You can now create a DataContext class from an existing database and use it as the entry point class to do DB operation. In this chapter we will learn how to create a DataContext class for local SQL CE database. At the end of this tutorial our data context class will be ready for further DB operations. Index - W ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/26/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com from 19th June 2011 to 25th June 2011. We have submitted 72 article links during the week on various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, Expression Blend and even Windows 8. During this week, top news was on Windows 8 Rumour to Windows Phone 7 future followed by several Windows Phone 7 related articles. In this post, I am going to share the top 5 posts as well as the links to daily news digest at Silverlight-Zo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/25/2011 6:00:00 AM
Yesterday, we came to know about Accelerometer of Windows Phone 7. We also learnt about the structure of the Accelerometer class and it's base class. Now, it's the time to see how to run the same inside the Phone emulator. In this post we are going to see the accelerometer tool that comes with the Phone 7 emulator. Read more to know how to run the accelerometer tool and what customization we can do with this tool. This will be beneficial for you when we discuss more about the topic with ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/22/2011 6:00:00 AM
Yesterday we discussed about the Alarm class and also demonstrated the use of it using a small demo app. Today in this post we will learn about Reminder class and will see the structure of the same. We will also demonstrate the implementation with a small demo. Like Alarm class, Reminder class is also part of the "Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler" namespace and inherits the same base class. Let's read more about it and explore each and every step to create a simple Windows Phone 7 Re ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/17/2011 6:00:00 AM
If you are developing any Windows Phone 7 application form and using the Emulator to run the app, you may find this tip very useful. A first time user who feels very annoying to click the mouse button to enter text using the phone emulator can hide the onscreen keyboard and use the computer's keyboard after reading this tip. Read to know more about the small tip which will make your life even easy. The onscreen keyboard in Windows Phone 7 is awesome but while using it ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/16/2011 6:00:00 AM
Mobile phones have very limited resource as compared to a desktop PC and hence it is very difficult to run multiple applications simultaneously. Also, suppose if multiple resources run simultaneously, it will eat up the battery life and make your phone stop working after certain period of time. So what to do? To overcome this situation, tombstoning comes into picture. It saves the current data and then moves the app to the background or closes the app after saving all the data. This cal ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/12/2011 6:00:00 AM
Here comes this week's News Digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. This time we have total 74 news items on various articles based on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch etc. Also contains some tips and other posts on MVVM, XAML and Blend. Most popular posts were "Silverlight Elevator Pitch", "War between Silverlight, HTML & Windows 8", "Bing Map Control for Windows Phone 7", "Is Silverlight Dead? No, it's not. It's the heart of WP7, Windows 8, XNA& ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/9/2011 6:00:00 AM
Sometime you may want to save the values present in your page while switching from one page to another page, sometime you may want to store the values while switching application between foreground and background. When you are switching from one application to the other, the first app enters into the deactivated mode. At that time you can store the current state of the page and display them back again by retrieving those values from page state once you return to the first app. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/7/2011 6:00:00 AM
Do you know that, you can now access local files and folders in Silverlight 5? Yes, you heard right. Earlier to Silverlight 5 it was only limited to trusted location like My Documents folder, means it was only possible to read/write in My Documents. Now using Silverlight 5 you can do such operation in any files or folders. Let's discuss more on this topic. After reading this post, you will be able to read/write to/from any file in local file system. Also you will be able to get informat ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/5/2011 6:00:00 AM
Yesterday I attended the PUG Event and delivered 1 hour session on Silverlight 5 Beta features. I demonstrated some important features too. Here in this blog post, I am going to share the "What's New in Silverlight 5?" slides. You can view it online and if you want, you can download to view it offline. Also, I am sharing the demo projects that I used during the session. You can freely download them from the attached links. Earlier I published some articles on these features, s ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/4/2011 6:00:00 AM
In the last chapter of the series, we learnt about Application bar and the uses of it using a small demo application. We described about Icon buttons and Menu items too. You can add an application bar to your page both from XAML and code behind. There are some design guidelines for Application bar and a developer must know about these before designing and developing their Windows Phone application. In this chapter, we will discuss about them. Read to know more and don't forget to share ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/3/2011 6:00:00 AM
Application Bar is a tiny toolbar for your page to do some specific operation. Using this, you can easily add a toolbar for your application pages. It is a combination of 1-4 icon buttons and/or a collection of menu items. In my previous post, we already discussed about the class. Today we will discuss more on this topic. We will also create a small demo application to showcase the use of ApplicationBar. Read to know more and don't forget to share your feedback. Flash ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/27/2011 4:00:00 AM
Silverlight 5 has another new feature called Ancestor Relative source binding. It was already available in WPF and has been newly introduced in Silverlight 5 beta. Using this, you can now bind to the relative ancestor elements very easily. Let's discuss it with a small example where we will create a Control Template for a Button and bind it's Tag property to the actual element to display text, instead of setting the Content property. Read to know more. Let us create a ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/19/2011 9:00:00 AM
Do you know that, we can now search text present in ComboBox and ListBox? This feature was not available in earlier version of Silverlight. To implement it, we had to write custom behavior. Now if you are using Silverlight 5, you can easily use this feature without writing any piece of code. In this Tip we will discuss about it. We don't have to add any extra code, because it is now the default behavior of those control. Read to know more. This post is a small tips &a ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/18/2011 9:00:00 AM
Continuing to our discussion on Silverlight 5 features. In earlier post, we discussed about Text Advancement in Silverlight 5. In this post, we will discuss on another new feature called Binding on Style Setter. This feature is very useful for the XAML designer. If you are a XAML designer, you must be aware of this cool new feature. Read the complete post where we will discuss how we can bind to a Style Setter. As you already know that, it is a new feature in Silverli ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/17/2011 9:00:00 AM
Silverlight 5 has now support for Multi Column Text. By using this feature you will be able to show your text content in column wise. If you are working for a news publisher company or want to publish your text content in column format, this feature will help you definitely. If you implemented this in your application, your text content will automatically position itself in next column if user resizes the application. So, want to learn about it? Let's discuss on it with a simple example ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/16/2011 9:00:00 AM
Do you aware of the Line Stacking Strategy of Silverlight TextBlock control? If not, this post will help you to understand it and after that you will be able to use it whenever require. So, what is this strategy? Was it available in earlier version of Silverlight or a new feature implemented in Silverlight 5? Let us discuss it in depth. LineStackingStrategy is a property of Silverlight TextBlock control, which takes an enum value that indicates how a line box is deter ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/12/2011 9:00:00 AM
There are many new feature announced to support Text advancements in Silverlight 5 Beta. Among them, one is the character spacing. This feature adds spacing between characters inside a TextBlock, RichTextBox and other control elements. In this post we will demonstrate the use of this new feature and also showcase a simple demo to make you understand better. Read it and start learning Silverlight 5 features. If you are very new to Silverlight 5, you may want to read th ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/11/2011 9:00:00 AM
In my latest two tips we have seen that we can customize the string using Run, Span tags as well as StringFormat in the XAML page. What about if I want to format it for proper DateTime, Currency or Numeric style? As I told you in my last post that, we can achieve the same using the StringFormat parameter in XAML too. Here in this post, I will demonstrate you the process in depth. Read to know more about it and make your life more comfortable designing your Silverlight application. &# ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/10/2011 7:00:00 AM
Yesterday in this post "Tips: Formatting Silverlight TextBlock Control", I shown you how to use various tags like Run, Span, Bold, Italic and Underline to format the text of TextBlock control, present in your XAML code. I also described the use of Run to bind multiple strings inside a TextBlock control. Today in this small post, I will show you a different method to concatenate multiple text content inside a single control. This tip will help you next time while doing the same ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/9/2011 7:00:00 AM
In general we use multiple TextBlock controls inside a StackPanel to format a single line. In this post I will show you a different way to format a single line. This is very useful if you want to bind any data in the middle of the text string. Also this is useful if you want to format the line with multiple formatting option. Read to know more about it. In general, if we want to bind a data in between text or want to style a single line with multiple text format, how we design ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/8/2011 12:12:00 AM
Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. In this week, we have accumulated 60 posts collected from various sites and delivered to you in a single page daily. It's our effort to bring all good contents to you, so that, you don't have to dig into the net more. In this week, most visited posts were on Animated Splash Screen in WP7, Panorama control in WP7, LightSwitch developers count as of today, Use of IEventAggregator to communicate between views and how to create WP7 ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/6/2011 2:55:00 PM
Many of you don't aware of it in depth, mainly the freshers who just started doing their hands dirty with the light of Silver. In this post I am going to describe you about AppManifest.xaml file and it's uses in depth. Read the complete post to know more about it. Don't forget to leave your feedback and/or any queries at the end of this post. Appreciate for reading this post. The AppManifest.xaml file contains the deployment details needed to run the Silverlight appli ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 5/4/2011 10:25:00 PM
ImplicitDataType is a new feature in Silverlight 5. Using ImplicitDataType, you can declare multiple Data Templates for your control and based on the data type, you can load the proper data template automatically. In this article we will discuss on the same step by step with a good example. Read the complete article to know it in depth. Do you have any queries, let me know. Feedbacks are always appreciated. Introduction Let's have a quick analysis of what we want to ...
ImplicitDataTemplate is a new feature in Silverlight 5. Using ImplicitDataTemplate, you can declare multiple Data Templates for your control and based on the data type, you can load the proper data template automatically. In this article we will discuss on the same step by step with a good example. Read the complete article to know it in depth. Do you have any queries, let me know. Feedbacks are always appreciated. IntroductionLet's have a quick analysis of what we want to achi ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/24/2011 11:25:00 AM
Here we have the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. In this week, we have accumulated many posts (52) on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. It's our effort to bring all good links for you, so that, you don't have to dig the internet for articles on the said technologies. In this post find the most popular post of the week which were showcased in Silverlight-Zone.com. I appreciate everyone's contribution and support to Silverlight-Zone community. Thank you for your support all the ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/18/2011 8:48:00 PM
Today we already discussed about Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta, which was introduced recently. The step-by-step guide focused on how to implement the double click, triple click using the new ClickCount property. In that post we discussed that, there are some issues with this feature and in this post I am going to describe them for you. Before working with this feature, you must know the pit-falls. This will help you to understand the issue and take care of your code. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/18/2011 3:29:00 PM
Some time you need to know whether your user clicked a control once or double clicked it. Sometime you need to know how many click a user did in the UI control. In this post, you will learn about it. Silverlight 5 Beta has been announced with newly added feature called ClickCount. It's a property added to the MouseButtonEventArgs. Using this you will be able to find out how many multiple click happened by the user. Read the complete post to know about the implementation and th ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/17/2011 1:11:00 PM
Here comes the Weekly Digest of Silverlight-Zone. This week was a great week. During the week Microsoft released a no. of products during the MIX11 event. Started with Visual Studio Async CTP Service Pack, Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview, Silverlight 5 Beta etc. In this post find the most popular post of the week which were showcased in Silverlight-Zone.com. I appreciate everyone's contribution and support to Silverlight-Zone community. This is India's first only Silverlight porta ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/14/2011 6:35:00 PM
Microsoft Released Silverlight 5 Beta yesterday during MIX11 conference. It has a great new features set. Among them, most demanded feature was Debugging Data Bindings in XAML. In this article, I will step you through the complete debugging feature in Visual Studio for Silverlight 5 XAML page. Read the complete article to know more about it and gather knowledge on the debugging feature with a simple code walkthrough. At the end, don't hesitate to leave your feedback. Queries are welcome. I ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/14/2011 8:48:00 AM
All of you are familiar with Silverlight and know how to create a Silverlight project. This post is not for the people, who already worked in Silverlight, but for the people who are very new in this technology and start to work as fresh to make their hands dirty. Also, creating this post to refer the project creation in my upcoming tutorial series. If you are a beginner to Silverlight, read this post to know how to create a Silverlight project. Setting u ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/14/2011 12:10:00 AM
Scott Guthrie announced availability of Silverlight 5 Beta at MIX11 conference. We already know what is coming on Silverlight 5 beta during Silverlight Firestarter. It's time for us to download the first Beta of Silverlight 5 and make our hands dirty with those bits. Read the post to get the downloadable links of Silverlight 5 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5. Install them and start doing your hands dirty with the bits. At MIX 2011 confer ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/10/2011 4:10:00 PM
In this post, I am going to share Top 5 posts of this week at Silverlight-Zone and the weekly digest of Daily News Headline. During this week top posts made by Michael Crump, Kunal Chowdhury, Paul Stovell, Dhanajay Kumar and Manas Patnaik. Good job guys. Read to find out the links. Popular 5 Posts of the Week: Building a personal website using Silverlight by @mbcrump Silverlight 5 Beta scheduled to Release during MIX11 - by Kunal Chowdhury (@kunal2383) HTML vs. Silve ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/9/2011 2:09:00 PM
That's a good question came up after the series in my blog. Someone asked why should one use Custom Control instead of User Control? Hence, let's extend the series and discuss about that. I apologise the delay of this post. I should explain this at the start of the series, but actually my goal was to explain you how to create and use Custom Control in Silverlight. It is better to do it later than never. Also, you are now familiar with Custom Control creation. Hence, start describing it. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/8/2011 9:57:00 AM
Here is the last chapter of the series for Silverlight Custom Control. In this article, we will learn how to access the template parts from code behind to do various operations in the UI front. Hope, you read the previous three articles and familiar with the Custom control as of now. This article will help you to understand accessibility of the template parts from the code. So, let's start discussing now. Appreciate your feedback as always. Background I hope, ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/7/2011 12:29:00 PM
Microsoft officially announced the expected release time for the Silverlight 5 Beta. Yes, it will be available next week during MIX11. This information was shared in Microsoft Silverlight Team's Blog post "Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight". So a new era to this technology is coming next. Only few more days we have to wait before trying out the latest components which are coming in Silverlight 5. Read the full post to find out the link to Features list in Silverli ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/6/2011 11:59:00 PM
Continuing to our 2nd chapter of the series here on Silverlight Custom Control. In this chapter we will discuss on dynamically setting the Content and other properties to our Custom Control that we implemented earlier. After reading this article, you will be able to create properties and set content dynamically to your control. So, lets start describing them and learn something again today. These series of posts are mainly targeted for beginners but anyone can read it to refresh their l ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/5/2011 8:53:00 PM
This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight?" In this tutorial part, we will discuss on the template and modify our basic template to give a better look as per our need. In this chapter, we will learn about template Part and how to modify the existing template. Read out more to learn in depth about Custom Control in Silverlight. This will benefit you not only for Silverlight but for WPF and Windows Phone 7 development too. At the e ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/4/2011 11:06:00 PM
I am working on Silverlight since 3 years and during the initial period I had a fear on creating Custom control. I was more confident creating UserControls during first one and half year of my job. But when I started working on custom controls, I came to know the power of custom control and all the fear gone out of my eyes. It's around 2 years, I am working on it and every time I am exploring some great stuffs. Though it's a long time since Silverlight launched; still, I am seeing the s ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 4/3/2011 10:49:00 PM
In this post, I will share you some important Shortcut keys of Microsoft Expression Blend 4. If you are working with Expression Blend 4, this will definitely help you to improve your daily productivity work. Keep the list with you always to best use of the Shortcut keys in Blend 4 while designing your XAML page. If you have more shortcuts, please share those to me and I will include them here as the key resource. Thanks for your support. If you are a XAML de ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 3/31/2011 10:31:00 PM
Today we have completed 3rd month of our activity in Silverlight-Zone.com and continuously trying to improve it. We are regularly updating the site with latest news on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XAML, Expression Blend, XNA etc. We are also publishing all those entries to Twitter and Facebook, whenever a new post has been submitted, keeping all followers up-to date. Find out more about March 2011 in this post. It was the month of ICC World Cup Cricket 2 ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 3/29/2011 10:52:00 PM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a Data Source without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. LightSwitch is currently in it's Beta 2 stage. Read this post to know about the installation process of it. Also find the installer location to download it freely. If you are ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 3/23/2011 10:56:00 PM
You might know that, LightSwitch is now in Beta 2 stage. Microsoft released it few days ago. I have a series of Tutorial on LightSwitch Beta 1 where we discussed on creating database tables using the LightSwitch table designer. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to attach an existing database table available in your SQL server database. This was also available in Beta 1 release. This time we will discuss with the latest version. Read the full post and at the end leave your feedback ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 3/13/2011 5:37:00 AM
Sometime your Silverlight application becomes too larger and creates a bigger XAP file. This causes issue while loading your XAP file for the first time as it increases the loading time for downloading the XAp. So, what will you do in this case? There is one answer: split your application in multiple projects which will create multiple XAPs and then use On Demand downloading feature. Absolutely right, but you may sometime include 3rd party assembly references. In such case, storing them ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 3/5/2011 9:06:00 PM
On 23rd January 2011, I declared a contest to Giveaway 4 licenses of DevComponents DotNetBar for Silverlight, each costs around $219. The contest was for 1 month and was ended on 28th February 2011. As mentioned in that post, I am going to declare the Winners in this post. Read to know more about the Winner. DotNetBar for Silverlight is toolbox of user interface components designed to help you develop professional Silverlight applications with ease. DotNetBar f ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 3/2/2011 9:39:00 PM
You all might know about ReSharper tool. The current stable version of ReSharper is v5. The ReSharper team is currently working on their development to release the next version of ReSharper i.e. v6. The new version of ReSharper has some cool new features like JavaScript, CSS and XAML support. It is currently in the early development stage and user has right to try out the new features and give feedbacks to improve them. Yesterday I installed the new EAP release and tried out some cool feature ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/28/2011 10:49:00 PM
Today we have completed 2nd month of our activity in Silverlight-Zone.com and got a huge nos. of responses from the community. In two months we crossed 30K+ visitors count which is pretty good. Audiences are mainly from United States, India and United Kingdom, followed by France and Germany. I will appreciate everyone's contribution towards this blog to make it a great success. Silverlight-Zone.com posts articles/news on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, XNA, LightSwitch, XAML and Expressio ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/22/2011 12:06:00 AM
This is my 3rd day when I explored the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight. Today, I explored the Masked TextBox control of Telerik. It's a good one and gives several options to use. In this article, I am going to describe you all the APIs of Masked TextBox control and the ways to use it to mask your input. Hope this will help you to understand the control in depth. As always, your feedback and suggestions are always welcome to improve my article content. Ba ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/15/2011 11:44:00 PM
Last week I started exploring Telerik RadControls for Silverlight. On Day 1 of exploration, I just gone thru the basic overview of Telerik RadControls and installation steps. In this post, we will explore the BusyIndicator that comes with RadControls. The basic code is similar to what comes with Silverlight by default. The difference which catches the eye is the circular progress bar. Let's start exploring it and see what are the properties available there and how to start wo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/13/2011 7:37:00 PM
On 12th February 2011, I attended the Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship event in Mumbai, organized by MSPs and delivered a full day session on Silverlight. Thanks to all who attended my session. Those who were unable to attend it for any reason, can view the slides online or can download it free to view it offline. Read the full post to know more about the event and download the slides for your offline view. On 12th Feb, I delivered the full day speech with ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/11/2011 11:04:00 PM
Today, we have 12 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight, LightSwitch and/or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have again 11 Authors. Today's posts are from: Vikas, Mahesh Sabnis, Abhishek Baxi, Jesse Liberty, Owen Williams, Jeremy Likness, Dave Isbitski, Windows Phone Geek, John Papa, John-Daniel Trask and Travis Pettijohn. &# ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/10/2011 11:00:00 PM
Today, we have 13 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight, LightSwitch and/or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have again 12 Authors. Today's posts are from: Digital Sound, Kunal Chowdhury, Vasudevan Kannan, Peter Kuhn, Jesse Liberty, Oren Eini, Bill Wagner, Windows Phone Geek, Jeff Prosise, Abhishek Baxi, Beth Messi and Nipun Tomar. We tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. F ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/9/2011 11:00:00 PM
Today, we have 13 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight, LightSwitch and/or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have 12 Authors. Today's posts are from: Asim Sajjad, Zamd, Shawn Wildermuth, Law Bot One, Damon Payne, Ben Willi, Rudi Grobler, Den Delimarsky, Andrea Boschin, Guardian, Doug Holland and Beth Massi. We tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. Follow us on Twitter @Silv ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/8/2011 11:55:00 PM
Telerik has a great collection of Silverlight controls named as "RadControls". These controls are built on Microsoft Silverlight and includes 40+ UI controls for building rich line-of-business Silverlight applications. They have some great themes to support those controls. Some of my readers asked me to write articles on Telerik RadControls. As I received a couple of request, hence thought to start with that. I will write a series of articles on my exploration on that and this ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/8/2011 11:00:00 PM
Today, we have 14 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have posts from: Abhishek Baxi, Telerik Silverlight Team, Oren Gal, Abram John Limpin, Rudy Grobler, Windows Phone Geek, Deborah Kurata, Ali Raza Shaikh, Gill Cleeren, John Garland, Dan Wahlin, Roy Dallal, Microsoft Expression and Laurant Bugnion. We tweet whenever a new ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/7/2011 11:01:00 PM
Today, we have 13 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have posts from: Thomas Martinsen, Jeremiah, Vikram Pendse, Jeff Wilcox, Kirupa, Laurent Bugnion, Nigel Sampson, Jeff Prosise, Jaime Rodriguez, Dave Campbell, Deyan Ginev and Emmanuel Nuyttens. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/6/2011 11:00:00 PM
Today, we have 9 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have posts from: Michael Washington (@ADefWebServer), Max Paulousky, Michael Crump (@mbcrump), Phil Middlemiss, Dave Campbell (@WynApse), @jprosise, @WinPhoneGeek, Peter Khun (@Mister_Goodcat) and Vikram Pendse (@VikramPendse). We t ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/5/2011 11:01:00 PM
Today, we have 14 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have posts from: C1_GregL, WinPhoneGeek, Bert ONeill, Jeremy Likness, Jon Galloway, Den Delimarsky, Resco Developer Tools, Dave Campbell (@WynApse), Mike Ormond, Levente Mihaly, Roy Dallal, @mattcasto and @cynergy_systems. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/4/2011 11:06:00 PM
Today, we have 10 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. In this issue we have posts from: Yochay, Howard Dierking, @sorskoot, Mike Taulty, Charles Petzold, Greg Duncan, Jeff Prosise, Abhishek Baxi and John Papa. We tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news twee ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/3/2011 11:03:00 PM
Today, we have 11 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. We also tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all th ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 2/2/2011 11:15:00 PM
Today, we have 16 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. We also tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverli ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/31/2011 11:04:00 PM
Today, we have 15 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily news update. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. We also tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 related article links in this post. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/30/2011 11:12:00 PM
Today, we have 6 news items posted in Silverlight-Zone. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily posts update. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. We also tweet whenever a new link has been submitted. Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 related article links in this post. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/29/2011 11:02:00 PM
Today, we have 5 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily posts update. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 rel ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/28/2011 11:09:00 PM
Today, we have 11 new news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily posts. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 related article links in this post. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/27/2011 11:15:00 PM
Today, we have 19 new news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. We reached around 670 news items in one month. If you are a Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 application developer, follow Silverlight-Zone for daily posts. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 related article link ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/26/2011 11:10:00 PM
Today, we have 22 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 related article links in this post. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/25/2011 11:23:00 PM
Today, we have 21 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Giveaway: Win DotNetBar for Silverlight controls worth $219 FR ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/24/2011 11:11:00 PM
Today, we have 19 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZonefor regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Giveaway: Win DotNetBar for Silverlight controls worth $219 FREE - by @kunal2383 and @SilverlightZone Here ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/23/2011 11:24:00 PM
Today, we have 8 news items of various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Giveaway: Win DotNetBar for Silverlight controls worth $219 FREE - by @kunal2383 and @SilverlightZone Here is a list w ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/23/2011 1:38:00 PM
Recently I explored DotNetBar for Silverlight which is a 3rd Party library by DevComponents. I wrote two articles explaining Ribbon Controls for Silverlight from the DotNetBar library. It's amazing and simple to use. I have my own license of that Library. Thought to give some licenses to my Blog readers and Twitter followers. Read this post to know more about DotNetBar and if you feel that you want it, try to Win the license for FREE. This time I am going to give 4 Silverlight Licenses ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/21/2011 11:22:00 PM
Today, we have 13 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Here is a list with all news headline posted (January 21th, 2011) at Silverlight-Zone: Creating Packs from the Silverlight App ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/20/2011 11:23:00 PM
Today, we have 20 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Here is a list with all news headline posted (January 20th, 2011) at Silverlight-Zone: Silverlight TV 58: New Mini Series - Windows Pho ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/19/2011 11:47:00 PM
Today, we have 13 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Here is a list with all news headline posted (January 19th, 2011) at Silverlight-Zone: How to use Application Bar in windows phone 7 - [ ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/19/2011 10:48:00 PM
In my previous article "Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part - 1)", we discussed about the Ribbon control Library provided by Devcomponents. We created a small demo application, where we integrated the Ribbon control bar in the XAML. In this article, we will discuss more on the Ribbon control items. It will be helpful for you to understand them in depth and use it in your application. Read the complete post and at the end, let me know your feedbacks. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/19/2011 12:40:00 AM
Earlier in December 2010, I posted three articles on DataGrid titled as "Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView", "Filtering Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView" and "Paginating Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView". If you didn't read them, go thru each articles to know more about Silverlight DataGrid. One of my reader "Dan" asked me to write an article on "Group Row He ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/18/2011 11:49:00 PM
Today, we have 14 news items of various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Here is a list with all news headline posted (January 18th, 2011) at Silverlight-Zone: XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 1 - Fundamentals - by Mist ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/11/2011 8:30:00 AM
Microsoft Office 2010 has a cool new Ribbon Control bar which looks pretty rich and it is very easy to use with compare to the old Menu bar. Probably you may know that, we can create such Ribbon bar using WPF but did anyone think whether we can do it using Silverlight too, very easily? Yes, we can create such Ribbon UI for our Silverlight application. So, if you want it for your Silverlight application, you can implement it very easily after reading these series of articles on ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/8/2011 9:27:00 PM
Do you work with Child Window in Silverlight and want to customize the look & feel to match with your application UI? Then this post will help you to understand the process. I am going to discuss with you the customization steps in detail, so that, next time when you want to modify your Child Window UI, you will find it very useful. In this article, I will guide you through the steps of customization with the help of a sample application. We will need Microsoft Expression Blend for ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/5/2011 12:00:00 AM
Here is the 3rd news archive of Silverlight Zone. We have 14 new posts in this issue. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post.
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/4/2011 11:52:00 PM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. In my previous chapter “Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 4)” I guided you step-by-step process to create a List and Details screen. There I demonstrated you, how to integrate two or more tables inside ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/3/2011 11:44:00 PM
Here is the 2nd news archive of Silverlight Zone. We have 16 new posts in this issue. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/2/2011 11:58:00 PM
First news archive of Silverlight Zone. We have 14 new posts in this issue. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Using Entity Framework in Silverlight with Visual Basic ...
This is the First news archive of Silverlight Zone and we have 14 new posts in this issue by various authors. Subscribe to the news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight related article links in this post. Todays news in Silverlight-Zone:
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 1/1/2011 5:12:00 PM
On 11th November, I declared a Contest to giveaway a Developer License of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight which costs around $799. The contest ended on 25th December 2010 and as mentioned, I am going to announce the Winner of this contest in this post today. I got a huge response in this contest and it was very difficult for me to chose the Winner but finally the Winner’s name is in my hand. Read to know who among of you will receive the $799 of Telerik RadControls License. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/24/2010 12:34:00 AM
Microsoft Virtual Techdays is the India’s Premier online Technical Event. This was the 10th edition of the series, started on 22nd November 2010 and continued for 3 days. On 23rd November 2010, I delivered my session on “Building Visual Studio LightSwitch Application” and the session video is online now. If you missed to attend the session, you can view it online or download it from the given link. I already shared the slide of this presentation in my earlier post “VT ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/19/2010 8:14:00 PM
It was a nice time to present myself to the audience to deliver my presentation on Visual Studio LightSwitch for Silverlight application development in Pune Developer Conference (DevCon) event organized by Pune User Group. Today my session was from 2:45pm. Though the count of attendees was low than the expected count but they really enjoyed to know about LightSwitch. Thanks to all who attended my session. Those who were unable to attend it for any reason, can view the PPT online. You ca ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/12/2010 12:22:00 PM
DevCon is a technical event to communicate, collaborate and connect with like-minded technology enthusiasts. The event comprises technology presentations, scenario showcases on the latest and most upcoming Microsoft Technologies. Speakers focus on providing technical solutions for line of business applications allowing professionals to get insight into their structured learning experiences. It is going to happen on 18th and 19th December 2010 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. I am ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/8/2010 6:47:00 PM
Do you have a huge collection of data inside your DataGrid and want to integrate Pagination to show records page by page and don’t know how to do? Then this article will help you to understand the same. After reading this article, you will be able to integrate pagination to your DataGrid to do the paging automatically by using a simple trick. Read the complete article to know about it. Feedback/Suggestions are always appreciated. Background Hope you already read the ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/5/2010 1:42:00 PM
In my last article, we discussed about “Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView” where we grouped our data records by column name using the PagedCollectionView. In this article, we will see how this PagedCollectionView will help us to filter out the records based on the search keyword. Not much code but the trick done with the same class will do everything for us in some easy way. We will learn about this here in this article. Not only this, we will also see ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/4/2010 4:22:00 PM
Do you work with Silverlight DataGrid and want to group your records inside the DataGrid in a proper manner? If so, this article is for you. Here we will learn about data grouping inside a DataGrid. In this article, we will learn how to group data inside a Grid. We will discuss all these steps-by-step and with proper images, so that, you can understand it very easily. The full source code has been attached. You can freely download it and that will be more helpful for you to u ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/2/2010 11:53:00 PM
Today is the 2nd December 2010, when ScottGu gave a Keynote on the future of Silverlight. There he spoke about the next version of Silverlight, yes, Silverlight 5 Beta. He gave a brief overview of the new & improved features which are coming in Silverlight 5. Read the full post to know more about the features of Silverlight 5. Silverlight 5 Beta is not yet launched. This is just the preview of the features which are going to come in this new version. New Feature ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 12/2/2010 10:59:00 PM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. In my previous chapter “Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 3)”, I described you how to create a DataGrid of records to insert/update/delete records. In this chapter, I will guide you to create ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/23/2010 7:33:00 PM
Today I delivered the 1 hour session on “Building Visual Studio LightSwitch Application” in Microsoft Virtual Techdays from 1:45PM – 2:45PM (Indian Standard Time). It was my first public session and due to this, I was little nervous when I started my presentation. But when I jumped into the demo, I got some confidence on that. Here, I am going to share the whole presentation for those who wasn’t able to join. Thanks to all my attendees for joining the session. Don’t forget to ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/20/2010 12:37:00 AM
Sometime we need to reset the position of the Silverlight Child Window at the center of the screen. This generally require when you have a static instance of the ChildWindow and you want to use the same instance to show various messages in the screen. When you loads the ChildWindow for the first time, by default it loads at the screen center. But think when your user reposition that ChildWindow to a different location in the screen, closes and reopens it, what will happen? What will you ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/18/2010 10:42:00 PM
Microsoft Virtual Techdays is again back. It’s a three days event, starting from 22nd November to 24th November 2010. This time I am going to speak in this Virtual Techdays on 23rd November. Join me at 1:45 PM (IST) to learn about “Building Visual Studio LightSwitch Application”. Read the complete post to know more about this event and registration process. Microsoft Virtual Techdays is the India’s Premier online Technical Event. This is the 10th edition of the seri ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/16/2010 8:43:00 PM
One of my reader “Girish” recently contacted me with a problem statement. His problem is, he wants to show a TextBox on selection of “Others” from a ComboBox and I informed him to use a ValueConverter and also told him, I will do a blog post on it, so that he can understand each step from that. This post I am dedicating to him. May be, some other people who are new to Silverlight can get benefit from it. Read the full post to learn the process to do it. Background Let us und ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/13/2010 11:16:00 AM
In some case, we need to customize the Scrolling functionality in Silverlight depending upon the requirement. The default look of ScrollViewer doesn’t give proper UI effect. In such case, you need to create the whole scroll behavior by modifying XAML and writing a bunch of C# code. In this article, I will demonstrate you how to create the above scrolling functionality simply without writing any lines of C# code. You have to use only Expression Blend to create the richness of the Scrolling. Re ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/11/2010 11:19:00 PM
Last time I did a Giveaway of Telerik JustCode Developer license of $299 and this time as a Silverlight Geek, I thought to giveaway a developer license of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight which costs around $799 to one of my readers & followers. If you want to Win it, read the complete post for details. Share this information to all your friends by tweet, mail or blog. Hope to see one of you as the Winner. All the best… ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/9/2010 7:32:00 PM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. In my previous chapter “Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 2)”, I described you how to create a search record window & export the records to Excel Sheet using Visual Studio LightSwitch for Silverl ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/6/2010 4:08:00 PM
I have seen people writing Code Behind a lot while they are working in the MVVM framework. A huge lines of code in their xaml.cs file actually creates problem to the designers to change anything present in the XAML. Why is this so? Because, lots of people don’t know how to use Triggers to call the MVVM methods to complete their business need. Michael Washington has a nice article on DataTrigger to reduce the Code behind file. It definitely reduces the problem of MVVM that world faces ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 11/2/2010 1:08:00 AM
After the recent PDC 2010 event, we saw lots of tweets on Twitter about the same question “Is Silverlight Dead? Is HTML5 is going to take over the Silverlight? Is Microsoft changing their vision?” etc. etc. The answer is “No”. No need to worry about it. Silverlight is still there and will be there for Rich application development & smooth media streaming for long. Read the whole post to know more about it. After the post “Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shift ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/25/2010 11:30:00 PM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. In my previous Chapter “Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–1)” I described about LightSwitch and did demonstration from creating a new LightSwitch project to create a simple form to insert new Student rec ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/23/2010 12:57:00 PM
In all of my earlier articles on Silverlight Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications, I demonstrated you creating the OOB application using Visual Studio. There are plenty of steps you have to follow there. Today I found another way to change the settings for it. In this post, I am going to discuss about both the processes and at the end tell me which one is best & simple. Visual Studio way to Create OOB Application Open you Silverlight Solution in Visual Studio. Now ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/20/2010 11:02:00 PM
Are you looking for a Silverlight Child Window, which can’t move from it’s actual position? Then this article will help you to understand & create a non-movable child window in Silverlight. Child Window is available inside the System.Windows.Controls.dll assembly. By default, it is movable. You can drag the Title Bar of the Window and position it anywhere in the screen. But, you may face some situation when you need to fix the position of the Window by restricting the user to drag i ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/20/2010 9:31:00 AM
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. Recently, I got some time to explore Visual Studio LightSwitch. I created a small DB application with proper data inserting UI within a small amount of time (without any XAML or C# code). Here in this article, I will guide ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/12/2010 8:55:00 PM
One of the new features introduced in Silverlight 4 is the silent installation of Silverlight Out-of-Browser application. This means, without user intervention, you can directly install them to their machines. You don’t have to open the browser window to install the OOB app. This is perfect for CD-ROM distribution. You can even automate the process from the CD/DVD media; if the user already has permission to auto run external media. Here in this article, I will first create a simple OOB ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/12/2010 8:21:00 PM
Silverlight Firestarter is a one day Global event, live streamed by Scott Guthrie and others. It will be held in Redmond on 2nd December 2010 from 8am to 5pm PST. Scott will start the Keynote at 9am PST. The whole session will be conducted by Scott Guthrie, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Tim Heuer, Mike Cook, Jossef Goldberg, Jaime Rodriguez and other. Join the session In-Person or online and learn more about the future of Silverlight. Agenda of the Event: ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/10/2010 6:22:00 PM
In this small Tips & Tricks, I will guide you changing the Style of Caret of a Silverlight TextBox control. It is very simple and you can easily do it using Visual Studio or Expression Blend. Here is a screenshot of the same: In general, styling the caret is not require. But in some cases, you may need to change it to give your UI the look & feel of your entire application. What is a Caret? Caret is a small line always blinking inside your TextBox control, as shown in the ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 10/1/2010 7:41:00 PM
Today Morning (1st October, 2010) when I noticed the mail with the Subject line: “Congratulations on receiving the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award”, I was really surprised. This is the biggest Award in my Life. I am really feeling very proud once I got the MVP Award from Microsoft. Yeah, it was the early morning when I received the mail from Microsoft India MVP Lead “Abhishek Kant” mentioning the following: Dear Kunal Congratulations on getting awarded ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/23/2010 11:56:00 AM
Recently, I wanted to detect the Silverlight version for one of my on going R&D. I wanted to detect the version from batch file and depending upon that I wanted to execute one file. Searching over internet I came to know that, HTML Application has some additional power for execution of any local file as it runs under fully trusted mode. I did more research on HTA files and successfully completed my basic analysis. Here I will demonstrate you the process of detecting the Silverlight ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/16/2010 8:46:00 PM
In various forums (mainly in Silverlight.Net Forum) I have seen people asking a question: “How to implement Session Management in Silverlight?” The simple answer is: “Session Management is not available in Silverlight”. Why? If it is not there, how can we implement it? Ok, If you are new to Silverlight, you need to know about this. Hence, I will describe you in this post about Silverlight Session Management. The targeted audience for this post is mainly the beginners of Silverlight. Read it and ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/13/2010 5:32:00 AM
In my previous post “Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4” I introduced you with various types of Shapes available in Silverlight 4 and informed you that, I will post an article describing each one of them and here it is. In this article, I am going to describe you about each shapes and the process to add them in our application (whenever you need). This article is for the Beginners, who don’t know much about the shape controls. If you have any suggestions/concerns please use the fee ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 9/7/2010 11:18:00 PM
In earlier versions of Silverlight, there are very few shape controls like Rectangle, Ellipse available. But think on creating other shapes like Triangle, Polygon, Ring etc. If you need one of them in the earlier Silverlight version, how will you implement them? In my next article, I will describe about all these to you. I think many of you know about these. But those who are not familiar with this, I am contributing it for them. In Silverlight 4 you can easily do this with t ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/30/2010 11:44:00 PM
MVVM, which is an abbreviated form of (M)odel-(V)iew-(V)iew(M)odel is not new to you all. But there are someone who don’t know about it. If you are a Core ASP.Net developer you may know about MVC & MVP, may also know about MVVM which mainly used in WPF/Silverlight. For them, it is tough to remember about its concept. In general in any of my discussions or presentations, I used to describe MVVM in a way which is very easier to understand and easy to recall. Hence thought, why shouldn ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/29/2010 4:52:00 PM
In this Tips & Tricks, I will show you the steps by which you can get the Screen Resolution of Client’s PC in Silverlight Application. It is quite simple. You have to just call the HTML DOM object to receive the handle of the screen and from that you can easily get the Screen Resolution. To get the Screen Resolution, you need to get the handle of the Window and you can get it from: Now from that object, you can call the Eval() with proper parameter “screen.width” or “screen.hei ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/28/2010 6:06:00 AM
In my last two articles on MEF i.e. “First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part - I)” and “First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part - II)” I described about the framework with the help of a Console Application and a Silverlight Application. Hope that gave you basic idea on it and what this MEF does. In this article I will try to give you more knowledge on MEF & it’s benefit. This time, I will again use a Console Application which will give more visibility to the underlying scenari ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/24/2010 8:54:00 PM
In my previous article “First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I)” I discussed about MEF with a small simple console application. Hope that was useful to you to understand the basic knowledge of MEF. In this article, I will guide you to create a simple Silverlight application using the MEF. If you are new to MEF, I strongly recommend you to read my previous article to gain knowledge on the basic things of MEF like Importing, Exporting, Catalog, Container etc. Read the complete artic ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/15/2010 12:20:00 AM
MEF is a framework to extend your application and was introduced in .Net Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0. Recently I got a chance to look around the MEF with Silverlight. I found it useful in various scenarios and thus thought to do something with MEF in Silverlight. In this article I will first discuss little about the MEF framework to give you some basic knowledge on it and then will show you how to create a small HelloMEFWorld console application step-by-step. In the next article I ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/10/2010 10:43:00 PM
In this Tips&Tricks, I will describe about changing the location of the output of your Silverlight application i.e. the .XAP file from it’s original “ClientBin” location to a different place. Developers sometimes need to put the XAP file in a specific directory based on their requirement. This trick will help them relocating the XAP file. Read the full post & if you have any queries or suggestions, please let me know. Appreciate your feedbacks. To change the location ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/9/2010 10:53:00 PM
In my earlier three chapters of Silverlight Tutorial, I described about “Introduction to Silverlight”, “Introduction to Silverlight Application Development” and “Introduction to Panels”. I got lots of responses & wishes from my readers for the next chapter. I know, there was a big gap between these chapters and I am really apologizing to you. Thank you for your passion. Hope, this time also I will get more responses from you. Read the complete tutorial and provide your valuable feedbacks. Yo ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 8/3/2010 10:34:00 PM
I was working with WPF/Silverlight since March 2008 and learnt lots of things. I wrote lots of Articles on Silverlight and published in my Blog. Today I decided to share you some of the best practices you should follow while doing development in WPF/Silverlight. Hope, this will help you guys while writing XAML codes. Read and try to strict with the guidelines whenever you are modifying your XAML. Feedbacks are always appreciated. Hence, don’t forget to leave your comments at the end. If ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/29/2010 4:05:00 AM
In my previous article “Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part-I)” I described about creating your very first PathListBox control in your Silverlight application followed by creating a Circular path to position the items in the circular edge. From that article, I think you are now familiar with it. In this post, I will demonstrate you guys how to animate the items in a specific direction. This not only guide you for animation in PathListBox but also will help you und ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/27/2010 12:09:00 AM
Have you ever heard of PathListBox introduced in Silverlight 4 as Expression Blend 4 namespace? Yes, it is a new control added in the “http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/controls” namespace. You can use this to position your data, text, images or other controls in the way of a single or multiple path controls. You can use your jig-jag path to set your contents or you can use circular or rectangular path to organize your content. In this article, I will guide you to understan ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/24/2010 9:09:00 PM
Neither the Silverlight is new nor the init params. But, I found various people in different forums asking for the logic on the implementation part for passing value to Silverlight application from ASP.Net application. In this post, I will describe about it. Here I will discuss on the InitParams and tell you how to use it to pass value from your .aspx page to your Silverlight application. Read the complete post and if you have any queries, don’t hesitate to ask me. InitParams is one of ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/19/2010 11:28:00 PM
In July 2010, Indian Cabinet selected a new Symbol for the Indian Rupee which looks like as the snapshot shown at the left side. In this post, I will describe you how to integrate the same symbol in Silverlight application. As the Unicode is not present for that till now, hence we need to use some font to write the letter using that. Fordian Technologies has the font and you can download it from their official Blog. The latest version of the font is available here: Rupee Font Version 2.0. Let us ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/16/2010 12:46:00 AM
Before starting with the next part of the discussion, let me ask you some questions. Are you a Silverlight developer? If “Yes”, how many times you create a Silverlight Out-of-Browser application? For that, how many times you create an UI and write code to instruct the user to install the application as OOB application. I think the answer will be “Many Times”. To solve this, we will create a Custom UI Wrapper (like the above snapshot) which will have all the codes necessary to guide th ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/8/2010 10:31:00 PM
Microsoft has released Silverlight for the Symbian OS, which will allow your Silverlight applications to run in some selected Nokia handsets. Earlier, Silverlight was only available for web on desktop for Windows, Mac operating system. Later Moonlight came out, which is the linux version of Silverlight. Then Microsoft released Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and this is the time for Symbian platform targeting mobile devices such as Nokia N97, N97 Mini XpressMusic etc. ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/7/2010 1:11:00 AM
You all know that, Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with COM APIs. In my earlier posts I already mentioned various Interoperability functionalities of Silverlight. You can see some articles in my Blog. In this article, I will show you how Silverlight can read your local files, folders and drives. At the end of this Article you will be able to open any file/folder/drive and read their attributes. Here I will demonstrate by creating a small application like Windows Explorer and reading all y ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/2/2010 11:40:00 PM
Have you ever heard of Text to Speech engine? “Yes” I think. Yes, it is not a new thing in the Computer World. It was available since Windows 98 (as much as I can recall) but it is completely new in Silverlight. You can now use the Silverlight application to give an API call to the SAPI Engine which will convert the text to voice. Sounds Good? This is achievable using the COM APIs only. Here I will describe you how to use COM API to give a TTS call to the SAPI Engine. After reading this ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 7/1/2010 12:25:00 AM
Have you ever tried Trimming your Text in Silverlight 2 or Silverlight 3? If yes, just recall the lines of code you wrote for trimming your text content and showing an Ellipsis (i.e. “…” three dots) at the end of the text. If you didn’t try it earlier, then just imagine what you have to do and how you will do. Also imagine the no. of lines you have to write. In this post, I will show you how I can implement this feature the easy way. Stop!!! I will not write here a huge code nor I will use any ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/27/2010 10:56:00 PM
Recently I was interested to work with the Physics Helper for Silverlight. I saw couple of demos on net which uses the Physics library for Silverlight to create good animations with Friction logic. Yeah, friction. You can drop a ball on a surface which will bounce over that surface. I found it very interesting and thought to create a Simple Demo for it. Here I will demonstrate you creating a Sample Application using Expression Blend. You don’t have to write a Single line of Code using Visual S ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/18/2010 1:24:00 PM
Microsoft released Windows 7 last year which has lots of functionalities including a nice UI. Among those features one of the most user friendly feature is Pin/Unpin application to Taskbar. You can develop WPF or Windows Forms applications in which you can implement this feature. But do you know that this is also possible in Silverlight? Yes, Silverlight 4 has the power to talk with any other application using the COM API. You can read one of my earlier article [Silverlight 4: Interoperability w ...
by Kunal Chowdhury via Kunal's Blog on 6/7/2010 10:37:00 PM
Microsoft launched their Expression Studio 4 today (7 June 2010), as expected. It includes Sketch Flow, Expression Encoder, Expression Web and Expression Design. This release comes with the Upgrade version. If you already have the licensed copy of Expression Studio 3, it will auto update to Expression 4 and you need no new license. You can download it from Microsoft Expression Studio site. Please note that, if you are developing in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and want to use Expression Bl ...
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