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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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Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations
Author: Andrea Boschin
Date Added: 20100310

In this article Andrea Boschin demonstrates how to write an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations.

MVVM with MEF in Silverlight Video Tutorial Part 2: Plugins and Metadata
Author: Jeremy Likness
Date Added: 20100310

This video tutorial builds on the first in the series. The program is re-designed to use a plugin architecture and metadata to define views and regions.

Binding a Converter Parameter
Author: Andrew Veresov
Date Added: 20100310

There is a lot of situations when you need to bind ConverterParameter value.

EasyPainter: Lion Hair styling
Author: Nokola
Date Added: 20100310

I am playing with EasyPainter recently :) There are no new additions to the software (yet). Here's how to apply a hair style to a lion.

Twisting Navigation - Silverlight 3
Author: SilverLaw
Date Added: 20100310

A twisting Silverlight 3 UserControl. Something like a twisting menue panel for website navigation. It is difficult to describe. Just take a look and enjoy.

Uploading and downloading images using a WCF service with Silverlight
Author: Gill Cleeren
Date Added: 20100310

In this article, Gill Cleeren demonstrates how to upload and download images using a WCF service with Silverlight.

New Windows Phone 7 Community Developer Hub
Author: Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness
Date Added: 20100310

Introducing a new Community Developer hub for Windows Phone 7 development - currently featuring a pretty nice looking WP7 simulator where you can load your own XAP files and share how they look with the wider WP7dev community.

Silverlight 4 Webcam Demo
Author: Viktor Larsson
Date Added: 20100310

A quick demo on how the webcam can be used. Low entrylevel for new learners.

XAML Transformation 101
Author: Viktor Larsson
Date Added: 20100310

A quick look at how to bend images in different ways with XAML. Pictures included

MVVM with MEF in Silverlight: Video Tutorial
Author: Jeremy Likness
Date Added: 20100310

This is a video tutorial that starts from scratch and creates a project that demonstrates both MEF and MVVM. While done in Silverlight 3, also pertains to Silverlight 4

How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1
Author: Walter Ferrari
Date Added: 20100310

One of the things I found missing in the current Bing Maps product is the possibility to create an elevation surface profile of routes. Perhaps this feature may not seem much on demand but actually affects more people than expected

DotNetNuke Silverlight Traffic Module
Author: Michael Washington
Date Added: 20100308

A module that tracks the visitors to a page for the current day and the past hour and displays the results using Silverlight gauges.

Cool demonstration of Silverlight VideoBrush
Author: Tim Greenfield
Date Added: 20100308

A fun and novel use of the VideoBrush in Silverlight.

Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2
Author: Bobby Diaz
Date Added: 20100308

Since volcanos are often associated with earthquakes, and vice versa, I decided to show recent volcanic activity on the Earthquake Locator map.

Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, part 1
Author: Bobby Diaz
Date Added: 20100308

I decided to scratch my curiosity with a nice little Bing Maps application that will show the location and relative strength of recent seismic activity.

Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel
Author: Glenn Block
Date Added: 20100308

In this post we’ll look at refactoring the code to incorporate the MVVM pattern.

Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog
Author: Glenn Block
Date Added: 20100308

Used properly, DeploymentCatalog is a great way to partition your Silverlight applications in order to improve startup time as well as allowing third-parties to extend your Silverlight applications.

The Case for ViewModel
Author: Nikhil Kothari
Date Added: 20100307

This post talks about the why, and some ideas about the possibilities that view models may open up down the road...

MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (13)Perfect moving mechanism
Author: Jianqiang Bao
Date Added: 20100307

Now it is time to resolve the issue left in chapter 8, when there are no obstructions between the distinction and original place, the sprite still use A* algorithm to find path, rather than moving between these 2 point directly

MMORPG programming in Silverlight Tutorial (12)Map Instance (Part I)
Author: Jianqiang Bao
Date Added: 20100307

I introduced how to create map in the game in the previous chapters. The difficulty is the implementation inside the map, such as obstructions. Let me introduce another method to implement obstructions. We call it Map Instance, or Copy Map.

1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight
Author: Christopher Bennage
Date Added: 20100307

Silverlight 4 is now supporting the commanding that we’ve come to love from WPF. Commanding was a foundational feature for MVVM. It’s what enabled us to bind to methods on our view models.

Transforming an Ugly Duckling into a Graceful Swan With Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part 2 Intro Animation
Author: András Velvárt
Date Added: 20100306

In the first part of the series, András Velvárt introduced the application, and created the “ugly duckling” version, where the end user could already browse the and watch the videos. In this part, he is going to add some bling to the app – namely the Intro animation, the ability to skip it, and to replay it.

Free Silverlight 4 beta skin!
Author: felix corke
Date Added: 20100306

I've designed a theme called Blackspike using the new Implicit Style feature. All developers have to do is include the supplied Resource Dictionary and all controls will be skinned.

Linq to Visual Tree
Author: Colin Eberhardt
Date Added: 20100306

This blog post demonstrates a Linq API which can be used to query the WPF / Silverlight Visual Tree.

XAML Attributes on Separate Lines
Author: Christopher Bennage
Date Added: 20100306

Buried deep within the options for Visual Studio is a little switch that places your XAML attributes on separate lines.

Using built-in, embedded and streamed fonts in Silverlight
Author: Gergely Orosz
Date Added: 20100306

there are multiple ways on how to go ahead with specifying fonts to use, this article attempts to summarize the options

Siaqodb for Silverlight 4.0
Author: siaqodb
Date Added: 20100306

Siaqodb for Silverlight 4.0 is ready and can be downloaded together with examples

EntitySpaces 2010 Two Part Series on Silverlight and WCF
Author: Entity Spaces Team Blog
Date Added: 20100306

We are very pleased to be able to show you some of the awesome power coming in EntitySpaces 2010.