Riviera is a sample application for Windows Azure available on MSDN Code Gallery for download. Riviera has been developed by Platform Evangelism group in collaboration with Cumulx who are a Cloud ISV partner. Key features of Riviera are:

Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
Per tenant customization of data model
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Within our Silverlight application if we want to know the URI where our Silverlight content is running, we can tap into System.Windows.Browser namespace. This namespace contains object which are full of Browser related information. This is an example of retrieving the URI from within Silverlight application.
<StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot" Margin="10">
<TextBlock Text="Your URL is: " />
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Silverlight 3 among its other features includes element to element binding. This was always available in WPF but somehow missing in Silverlight 1 and 2. And now Silverlight 3 has bridged that gap. Element to element binding can reduce code when used properly. In this post I will show you how to use this feature.
Example
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Microsoft has released Silverlight 3. Nuff said! Go and get it here.

While writing Silverlight you may come across a need to get information about host browsers within your application. In Silverlight this information is exposed by BrowserInformation class within System.Windows.Browser namespace. BrowserInformation can be accessed through HtmlPage class which also lives in System.Windows.Browser namespace. Here is an example where I am retrieving information about the browser.
<StackPanel [...]

In an earlier post I showed you how to add ScrollViewer to Panels. In this post I will show you how to change the look of  the ScrollViewer using Expression Blend. I will work with the same example where I placed  ScrollViewer for a StackPanel. Here is the XAML I will use with a screenshot [...]

Scrolling is a very basic User Interface feature which allows you to navigate vertically or horizontally the content which may take up more than available area. In Silverlight scrolling is not available by default for any of the panels. But it can easily be made available with just a little bit of XAML. In this [...]

While writing Silverlight applications, I find it challenging to pick colors from the list of predefined colors supported by Silverlight. Honestly I don’t know what those fancy colors look like. There! I said it!. Happy? To overcome this issue in true developer style, I wrote a small utility which shows all predefined colors on a [...]

Wrap panel in Silverlight is missing out of the box, but this need is fulfilled by Silverlight Toolkit which also includes many other controls. In this post we will look at WrapPanel. I will show you how to use it and what it is used for.
To use wrap panel you have to install Silverlight Toolkit. [...]

Panels are basic layout mechanism in both Silverlight and WPF. They act as containers for other controls and each panel provides a different way of laying out controls on the screen. In this post we will look at Canvas Panel in Silverlight. Canvas allows us to put controls based on x and y  coordinates. This [...]

Today I visited ebay for I think the 5th time in my life and I found that they have a new sidebar for Internet Explorer 8. What’s cool about this side bar is that it uses Silverlight.. You can view your active auctions and get information on your bids. A cool addin for ebay users.
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Microsoft Thrive is a clever demonstration of how Silverlight can be used for a public facing website. Other than being a showcase for Silverlight the site also has some valuable content for career development, desktop optimization, cost savings and compliance & governance among others.
 
 
The most fun is a game called Are You Certifiable. The game [...]