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SilverlightCream grew out of a series of blog posts of the same name to try to bring the best of the community Silverlight code to the forefront for developers.

This site is simply an aggregation of links and information about Silverlight applications, code, games, tutorials, or resources produced and hosted by others. The "Search" link on the left provides multiple options to search through the stored information.

If you're a developer and want to contribute your links to our database, please select the "Submit" link on the left and follow the instructions on that page.

As material is submitted (and moderated) I will post links and information about them based on submittals to this site.

Please feel free to contact me with suggestions or problems

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The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World
Author: Jeremy Likness
Date Added: 20120516

Follow-on to previous Async post covering the difference in the way the .NET Framework and Windows Runtime handles the operations

Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7
Author: Kunal Chowdhury
Date Added: 20120516

As a WP7Dev, you might want to build a stunning application with an animation to the page navigation or orientation changes

LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps
Author: Joe Mayo
Date Added: 20120516

I am pleased to announce the first beta of LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8.

Getting an App in the Windows Store: What, Why, and How
Author: Andrew Duthie
Date Added: 20120516

every developer who would like to put some additional money in their pocket owes it to themselves to learn the What, Why, and How of the Windows Store.

Registration error… Windows Phone with Windows Azure debugging problem!
Author: Betim Drenica
Date Added: 20120516

For this sample application to work correctly, please make sure that it is running in port 443. Please review the Troubleshooting section of the sample documentation

Extension Methods in Javascript
Author: Loek van den Ouweland
Date Added: 20120516

One way to encourage re-use of code is the use of .NET extension methods

What Metro style app packages are installed?
Author: Mike Ormond
Date Added: 20120516

There comes a time when you’ll want to see a list of all the Metro style app packages installed on your Windows 8 machine

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 4
Author: Peter Kuhn
Date Added: 20120516

When you create an app like the SilverlightShow app, that accesses remote data frequently, thinking about a suitable strategy for local storage and caching is vital to provide a great user experience

How to Save Ringtones in WP7 using the SaveRingtoneTask
Author: Kunal Chowdhury
Date Added: 20120516

Today in this blog post we will discuss about the Windows Phone 7 class named “SaveRingtoneTask”

The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await
Author: Jeremy Likness
Date Added: 20120516

The new technology referred to as Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming provides a streamlined language syntax for asynchronous development

Part 91 - Windows Phone - Indeterminate PerformanceProgressBar
Author: Sumit Dutta
Date Added: 20120516

In this short article, I will talk about PerformanceProgressBar

Image preview in solution explorer Visual Studio 2011 beta
Author: Jalpesh P. Vadgama
Date Added: 20120516

As a web developer we all want to see the image preview in solution explorer and visual studio 2011 beta is now having it.

Fix for IntelliSense feature in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 may stop working after you install Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Author: Senthil Kumar B
Date Added: 20120515

Today , i encountered a wiered thing in my SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 where the intellisense was somehow not working in SSMS 2008 R2 :( .

Xamarin Designer for Android released for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop
Author: Senthil Kumar B
Date Added: 20120515

Xamarin Designer for Android was released few days back that enables the Android developers to create some cool layouts for the Apps from Visual Studio and MonoDevelop.

MSDN Webcast series on building Metro style apps
Author: Jaime Rodriguez
Date Added: 20120515

A few colleague evangelists are doing a series on MSDN Webcasts on building Windows 8 Metro style apps.. Catch the whole series

Converting images to paths
Author: Steven Hollidge
Date Added: 20120514

Just a quick trick to convert an image into a vector based path in xaml.

OOP in JavaScript: Objects
Author: Kirupa Chinnathambi
Date Added: 20120514

What I am going to do is help you gently dip your toes into the giant pool known as Object Oriented Programming

Part 90 - Windows Phone - Background File Transfers
Author: Sumit Dutta
Date Added: 20120514

In this article I will talk about BackgroundTransferRequest in WindowsPhone

Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1
Author: Windows Phone Team
Date Added: 20120514

A lot of the Windows Phone developers out there are already considering porting their Windows Phone apps to Windows 8. May be you are thinking: from Metro to Metro - it has to be pretty easy and straightforward, doesn’t it?

Prevent ugly images on Windows Phone
Author: Timmy Kokke
Date Added: 20120514

Sometimes images look nice on a regular computer screen, but when used in your Windows Phone application they become ugly

How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask
Author: Kunal Chowdhury
Date Added: 20120514

Do you want to create an application or game for your Windows Phone 7 that can share links to various social networking sites of users choice?

Silverlight 5.1.10411.0 Released
Author: Pete Brown
Date Added: 20120514

we released a minor update to Silverlight 5

Implement a NavigationService for MVVM in Metro Applications
Author: Andrea Boschin
Date Added: 20120514

During the development of my last metro app for my user group, I found a stylish way of creating a NavigationService to be injected in ViewModels

Adding Touch support to a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript
Author: Dave Isbitski
Date Added: 20120514

I wanted to add Touch Support to the game enabling players to use their fingers to destroy the on screen ships. This meant supporting multiple fingers on screen at the same time as well still supporting mouse for players who did not own a touch device

Project Dialog in Visual Studio 2011 beta
Author: Jalpesh P. Vadgama
Date Added: 20120514

Today we are going to look at the New project dialog and some other improvements in visual studio 2011 beta

Part 89 - Windows Phone - ApplicationBar Color
Author: Sumit Dutta
Date Added: 20120510

In this article I will talk about how to set colors of Application Bar in Windows Phone

Learn jQuery Part1: Introduction to jQuery
Author: Dhananjay Kumar
Date Added: 20120510

This is first part of Learn jQuery series

WPF Charting Performance Comparisons (the Battle Continues)
Author: Colin Eberhardt
Date Added: 20120510

This blog post presents a thorough analysis of the performance of various WPF Charting components.

Running Borland C++ from Silverlight
Author: Oren Gal
Date Added: 20120510

I had some massive and complex algorithms written in Borland c++ and wanted to use them in my Silverlight app.

Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation
Author: Andrea Boschin
Date Added: 20120510

Dealing with various display sizes and with mobile devices requires new capabilities that go beyond the ones required to run on a simple smartphone

JSON deserialization with JSON.net: caching results
Author: Joost van Schaik
Date Added: 20120510

Part 3, as promised, shows a way to cache results - which makes your application faster, more responsive and more battery/data plan friendly.

Modernize Apps Look & Feel with Metro Studio and the Cosmopolitan Shell
Author: Beth Massi
Date Added: 20120510

For LightSwitch applications that use the Cosmo shell, it’s best to go with a Transparent background so that the light grey of the command bar comes through

JavaScript for the C# Guy: The Global Object
Author: Shawn Wildermuth
Date Added: 20120510

This is another in my series about (hopefully) interesting JavaScript constructs that might surprise most C# developers

Help! Visual Studio 11 Beta Dark Theme incorrectly using White Background
Author: Dave Isbitski
Date Added: 20120510

I ran across an issue with Visual Studio 2011 Ultimate Beta this morning and figured I would share the solution here with everyone

Fast and fluid animations in your Metro style app
Author: Angelina Gambo and Hamid Mahmood
Date Added: 20120510

In Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you will notice that animations are an integral part of the user experience

Go to definition in JavaScript feature of Visual Studio 2011 beta
Author: Jalpesh P. Vadgama
Date Added: 20120510

in visual studio 2011 beta we have go to definition features which one of most favourite features of visual studio for visual C#.

Animated gifs in XAML/C# :)
Author: Jose Fajardo
Date Added: 20120510

Can I build my own support for animated gifs in XAML using DirectX & WIC (via SharpDx) ?!

Functions in JavaScript
Author: Kirupa Chinnathambi
Date Added: 20120510

At a very basic level, a function is nothing more than a wrapper for some code