Silverlight Tips of the Day

The Silverlight team has been releasing some Silverlight Tips of the Day to help developers get started using Silverlight. I thought that I would post them here as well as a reference for me and anyone else that is needing help with working with Silverlight.

This list will expand as more Tips are released from the Silverlight team.

 Silverlight Tips of the Day:

• Tip of the Day #1 - Setup and Installation of Silverlight Tools Beta 2
• Tip of the Day #2 - Creating a Silverlight Application Project with Visual Studio 2008
• Tip of the Day #3 - Silverlight Game Support, Limitations and Workarounds
• Tip of the Day #4 - Building the Game Interface Using the Grid Control
• Tip of the Day #5 - Timers and the Main Game Loop
• Tip of the Day #6 - Monitoring for Keyboard and Mouse Events
• Tip of the Day #7 - Creating Transparent PNG files for Silverlight
• Tip of the Day #8 - Silverlight Resources
• Tip of the Day #9 - Browser Resize – How to capture the size of your browser when it is resized
• Tip of the Day #10 - Dynamically loading and displaying images in Beta 2
• Tip of the Day #11 - Transparency - How to make your Silverlight control transparent
• Tip of the Day #12 - Full Implementation of a Silverlight Policy Server
• Tip of the Day #13 - How to Get an Images Dimensions in Silverlight
• Tip of the Day #14 - How to Right Click on a Silverlight Application
• Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight
• Tip of the Day #16 - StoryBoard versus DispatcherTimer for Animation and Game Loops
• Tip of the Day #17 - How to Animate a Rotating Image
• Tip of the Day #18 - How to Set Browser Cookies
• Tip of the Day #19 - Using Isolated Storage
• Tip of the Day #20 - How to Increase the Isolated Storage Quota for your App
GameFest 2008 - Silverlight Game Programming
Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients
Tip of the Day #22 - How to add Sound Effects, Music and Video to your Silverlight App.
Tip of the Day #23 -How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event
Tip of the Day #24 - How to Apply a XAML Template to a Class
3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games
Terrain Tutorial Part 1 - Creating a Scrolling Map
Tip of the Day #25 - How to Build the XAP File to the Debug/Release Folders
Tip of the Day #26 - How to Change the Output XAP File Name.
Tip of the Day #27 - How to Change the Mouse Cursor
Tip of the Day #28: - How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor
Tip of the Day #29: - Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners
Tip of the Day #30 - Fast Sprite Animation in Silverlight
Tip of the Day #31 - How to Detect Alt, Shift, Control, Windows and Apple keys with Left Mouse Down in Silverlight
Silverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 - Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks
Tip of the Day #32 - How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page
Tip of the Day #33 - How to Scale your entire App and its Elements to your Browsers Size
Tip of the Day #34 - How to Center your Silverlight Application in your Browser
Tip of the Day #35 - Full Screen Mode Implementation
Tip of the Day #36 - How to Create Reflections and Shadows for Images and Text
Tip of the Day #37 - How to Dynamically Load and Display Silverlight Applications
Tip of the Day #38 - How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience
Tip of the Day #39 - How to Create a Zoom Toolbar
Tip of the Day #40 -1.05 != 1.05 - Peril with Floating Point Comparisons.
Tip of the Day #41 - Using Bookmarks in your Silverlight Application.
Tip of the Day #42 - How to Create a Web Service for your Silverlight App.
Tip of the Day #43 - Making it Snow in Silverlight.
Tip of the Day #44 - Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services.
Tip of the Day #45 - Text Formatting with the TextBlock control
Tip of the Day #46 - Font Support in Silverlight
Tip of the Day #47 - How to Implement a Password Box
Tip of the Day #48 - How to Implement a Combobox
Tip of the Day #49 - How to Implement a Progress Bar
Tip of the Day #50 - Main Game Loop Revisited!
Tip of the Day #51 - How to Enable and Disable Controls
Tip of the Day #52 - How to Popup a Browser Window
Tip of the Day #53 - MessageBox is now Available in Silverlight 2
Tip of the Day #54 - How to Develop with Silverlight Tools for Free
Tip of the Day #55 - How to Apply Styles in Silverlight – Part I
Tip of the Day #56 - Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight.
Tip of the Day #57 - How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control

Last Updated: 10/13/2008 06:00 PM