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Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera

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
Per [...]

[ More ] August 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Get URI Of Silverlight Plugin Host Page

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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[ More ] July 13th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Programming |

Silverlight 3 Element To Element Binding

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
In [...]

[ More ] July 12th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Programming |

Get Browser Information In Silverlight

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 [...]

[ More ] July 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Programming |

Style Silverlight ScrollViewer With A New ControlTemplate

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 [...]

[ More ] July 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Programming |

Scrolling In Silverlight Panels

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 [...]

[ More ] July 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Programming |