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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.

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10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism
Author: Erik Mork
Date Added: 20090702

Here, I provide the top 10 things that I think every developer should know about Prism

Downloading Prism
Author: Erik Mork
Date Added: 20090702

This is a guide that shows you how to get up and running with Silverlight Prism

Silverlight FileUploader 2.0
Author: Michael Washington
Date Added: 20090702

A Silverlight File Uploader To Allow Each User To Have Their Own File Repository

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4
Author: Faisal
Date Added: 20090702

In this part I’ll show you how create CardsUI

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3
Author: Faisal
Date Added: 20090702

In this part of the NikeClone series I will add some code in the btnLogin click event handler In SoccerItemList which we created in the first part of this series and how to create a StylesSearchText UI and Templated search buttons which will be used for searching.

Countdown to Silverlight 3 #5: ChildWindow (Modal, Non-modal, Templated)
Author: Andrej Tozon
Date Added: 20090702

I’m not sure how many new controls I’m going to cover in this series, but the ChildWindow definitely deserves a separate post and sample.

Countdown to Silverlight 3 #4: Element binding
Author: Andrej Tozon
Date Added: 20090702

Silverlight 3 now allows bindings between UI elements and their properties, without having to use other classes as a workaround.

Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo)
Author: Jose Fajardo
Date Added: 20090702

I created this demo to demonstrate some of the really cool features arriving in Blend 3 and Silverlight 3.

Silverlight and F# happily ever after
Author: Cristian Merighi
Date Added: 20090701

New Visual Studio templates are available: embedding F# libraries into a Silverlight application is now super-easy!

Arranging Shapes in a Circle with Expression Blend – Part 2
Author: Walt Ritscher
Date Added: 20090701

In the first installment of this article I showed some techniques for implementing circular animations. The trek continues in this installment where I will show you how to arrange elements evenly about the perimeter of a circle and how to recreate the Silverlight loading animation.

Silverlight 2.0 Authentication Services
Author: Al Pascual
Date Added: 20090701

Message based authentication managed by Silverlight not the browser

Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services
Author: Vijay
Date Added: 20090701

The following steps demonstrates an implementation of a domain service class using a repository to make it unit testing friendly

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2
Author: Faisal
Date Added: 20090701

In this part we’ll create a LoginWindow.

Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-1
Author: Faisal
Date Added: 20090701

NikeClone, this is the app I showed at MS Tech Day Dhaka...I created clone of the original Nike site.

Silverlight 3 Polling Duplex Chat and Realtime Stock Updates
Author: Peter Bromberg
Date Added: 20090630

An extension of the "End to End duplex sample" to show how Duplex polling can use the "push" model to send subscribed realtime stock price updates to connected clients.

Arranging Shapes in Circle with Expression Blend – Part One
Author: Walt Ritscher
Date Added: 20090630

A common UI metaphor in recent times is the circular wait cursor or progress indicator. This article shows some easy techniques within Expression Blend 2 that simplify creating this modern UI indicator.

Eventing in Prism - Loosely Coupled Talking
Author: Erik Mork
Date Added: 20090630

Prism allows us to have modular and loosely coupled applications, but how do these loosely coupled pieces communicate?

Prism’s Event Aggregator
Author: Erik Mork
Date Added: 20090630

Today’s show: Eventing in Prism.

Multi Touch enabling your WPF application
Author: Davide Zordan
Date Added: 20090630

Recently I had the possibility to work on some multi-touch stuffs using the .NET wrappers for the touch APIs included in Windows 7 RC.

Hilighting entire row in datagrid
Author: Lee
Date Added: 20090630

when we select a row in datagrid the entire row will be highlighted along the the cell we clicked on getting a different background. when our datagrid is readonly we may not want this special treatment for the current cell.

Countdown to Silverlight 3 #3: Merged resource dictionaries
Author: Andrej Tozon
Date Added: 20090629

There are many controls being introduced in Silverlight 3; a lot of them were pulled from the Silverlight Toolkit (the idea is that for every new Silverlight version, Toolkit controls marked as stable are moved to the Silverlight core. I’m not sure how many new controls I’m going to cover in this series, but the ChildWindow definitely deserves a separate post and sample.

Countdown to Silverlight 3 #2: Setting styles
Author: Andrej Tozon
Date Added: 20090629

Silverlight 3 is introducing a small, but very powerful feature: styles in Silverlight 3 can be set multiple times!

Countdown to Silverlight 3 #1: Out of Browser applications
Author: Andrej Tozon
Date Added: 20090629

With Silverlight 3 knocking on the door (July 10?) it’s time to offload my Silverlight 3 examples...I’ll begin with probably the most talked about new feature – Out of Browser applications, which could also be referred to as installed applications.

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #14
Author: Jonathan van de Veen
Date Added: 20090629

As some of you may remember from the very first episodes of this series, in our application we use modules to separate functionality. This allows for a scalable solution on many fronts. Recently however I was asked by some of the functional designers if it was possible to use the modules in multiple ways.

YouTube video in Silverlight 3
Author: Corey Schuman
Date Added: 20090629

YouTube is moving toward the h.264 encoding for their videos. (My guess is to prepare for HTML 5. It’s crazy to think that YouTube could/might move away from Flash.) Silverlight 3 is a benefactor because it can support h.264. If anyone is looking for a great mashup, make a Silverlight video player that integrates with the YouTube API.

Problems with the clientaccesspolicy.xml for Silverlight access to HTTPS
Author: Al Pascual
Date Added: 20090629

All resources I read mandate to explicitly add the https on the domain uri to allow https calls from Silverlight, yet that part was the one that blocked my Silverlight application.