Articles having tag: TIPS AND TRAINING

Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010

This connect bugdescribes an issue with creating certain types of Silverlight projects in Visual Studio. If you're referencing Silverlight 4 DLLs from a Silverlight 5 project, you may run into thiscode analysis/FXCopissue yourself if code analysis is part of...

Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

By Silverlight Team

by Andrea BoschinThere is not any doubt, the first thing you meet when you use Windows Phone are the tiles. These are the large squares on the home screen that identifies some applications and they are also a distinguishable character that make your Windows...

Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 1: An overview of the Windows 8 platform

By Silverlight Team

by Gill CleerenIntroduction to the seriesWelcome to this first part of a whole series on Windows 8 articles, which I'll be writing over the coming weeks and months. It's my goal in this series to introduce you to what we know at this point about Windows...

Silverlight Show: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 10 of 10)

By Silverlight Team

In this article, a discussion about several new features that did not fit in any of the above categories. We will discuss In-Browser HTML, PostScript and Tasks for TPL. Please review the Roadmap for the series before going any further.The Roadmap for this SeriesIncluded,...

New Silverlight Show articles: Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData

By Silverlight Team

Silverlight Show has two new articles that provide some really interesting info about building Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData written by Samidip Basu (@samidip).Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData - Part 1Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData - Part 2

Silverlight Show: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 9 of 10)

By Silverlight Team

In this article, a discussion of several new features/controls such as Double and Triple click support, PivotViewer and ComboBox Type-Ahead. Please review the Roadmap for the series before going any further.The Roadmap for this SeriesIncluded, the Roadmap for...

Silverlight Show: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 7 of 10)

By Silverlight Team

In this article, a discussion of a few more operating system integration features in Silverlight 5 including: Default Filename for SaveFileDialog, 64-bit browser support and Power Awareness for Media Applications. Please review the Roadmap for the series before...

Silverlight Show: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10)

By Silverlight Team

In this article, a discussion of several new operating system integration features in Silverlight 5 including: P/Invoke, Multiple Windows and Unrestricted File System Access in Full Trust. Please review the Roadmap for the series before going any further.The...

Silverlight Show: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 5 of 10)

By Silverlight Team

In this article, a discussion of the new text improvements in Silverlight 5 including: Text Tracking and Leading, Linked and Multi-column Text, OpenType Support, Pixel Snapped Text and TextOptions. Please review the Roadmap for the series before going any further.The...

Silverlight Show: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10)

By Silverlight Team

In this article, a discussion of media features such as low-latency sound using features right out of XNA. We will also discuss Remote Control and Media Command (Keys) support using Silverlight 5. Please review the Roadmap for the series before going any further.The...