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Silverlight includes a Full Screen capability where you can view your application in full screen. This can be done by setting the “IsFullScreen” property to true - Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen = true; It basically turns your Silverlight application into a full screen view. You can set it back to false in order to exit the full screen mode. In addition, the user can press the escape key and exit the full screen at any time. Recently I was involved in a project where the following...
Read the full details Here . Carlos came up with an elegant way to enable cross domain calls from silverlight to self hosted WCF service. Such calls requires the server to allow cross site scripting which is done by placing a settings XML file in the web site root. But what about the cases where you self host a service in a process and you're not in the context of a web site root? Well, that's what the post is about.
Read this post for great inormation about Silverlight performance tips. Read this post for details about the Slverlight font.
Make sure you check the latest source and bits of: WPF Toolkit DataGrid v1 DatePicker/Calendar v1 Visual State Manager Preview Ribbon Preview Silverlight Toolkit AutoCompleteBox NumericUpDown Viewbox Expander ImplicitStyleManager Charting TreeView DockPanel WrapPanel Label HeaderedContentControl HeaderedItemsControl Themes - Expression Dark / Light | Rainier Purple / Orange | Shiny Blue / Red
The final release of Silverlight 2 is out. Download Silverlight 2 SDK, Developer Tools and Expression Blend 2 Here , Read Scott Gu's post for more details.
The RC version is out and ready for use. Read Scott's post & Nicholas for what's out there. Download Resources : Visual Studio 2008 Tools RC0 Expression Blend SP1 RC0 Windows Silverlight 2 Dev Runtime RC0
Via these posts : Free Silverlight Controls And Tools For Brighter Websites Silverlight 2 UI Templates Following are useful links to visit before writing Silverlight applications. 1) XAML Power Toys XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Multi-AppDomain Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time. 2) Silverlight Community...
Yeap, it is here. Silverlight 2 beta 2 was release last week. It had been posted over 999,999,999 blogs so I won't say much about it. It does have some cool new things, check Scott's post .
Follow this link to go to Scott Guthrie's post on Silverlight 2 Scott goes through what the upcoming Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 provides with links to a set of tutorials. Highlights : WPF UI Framework Rich Controls Rich Networking Support Rich Base Class Library I hope I will get a chance to step into the internals of Silverlight, No doubt it is the future of RIA for Microsoft tech lovers.