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10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

by Kevin Ruse

10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

by Shuqian Ying

The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.

A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM

by Weidong Shen

This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.

A Practical Quick-start Tutorial on MVVM in WPF

by Dr. Song Li

This article gives a practical quick-start tutorial on MVVM in WPF for application developers.

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10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

by Kevin Ruse

10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

A MIME Message Viewing Library in WPF

by Shuqian Ying

The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.

A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM

by Weidong Shen

This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.

A Practical Quick-start Tutorial on MVVM in WPF

by Dr. Song Li

This article gives a practical quick-start tutorial on MVVM in WPF for application developers.

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10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

by Kevin Ruse

10 Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Flex

A MIME Message Viewing Library in WPF

by Shuqian Ying

The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.

A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM

by Weidong Shen

This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.

A Practical Quick-start Tutorial on MVVM in WPF

by Dr. Song Li

This article gives a practical quick-start tutorial on MVVM in WPF for application developers.

A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 1

by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 2

by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this second part, we will go through various topics on how MVVM Light Toolkit is used in our sample application.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 3

by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this part, we will discuss how custom authentication, reset password, and user maintenance are implemented in the sample application.

A Silverlight application with the WCF RIA Services Class Library

by Jevgenij Pankov

A Silverlight application using the WCF RIA Services Class Library. Demonstrates how to implement a custom Authorization Service, utilize localized resources, and add unit tests for DAL.

A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM)

by defwebserver

This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 1

by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 2

by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 3

by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 4

by Weidong Shen

Part 4 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A ViewStack Component for Silverlight 2 with Transitions and Cache management

by Anil Kumar T R

An enhanced ViewStack component for Silverlight 2 with transitions and cache management.

Achieve Unbeatable Performance with RadControls for Silverlight! Working with 50 million cells has never been faster

by Evan Hutnick

This whitepaper explains how through smart use of UI and Data virtualization, content recycling, XAML optimizations and more, RadControls for Silverlight deliver first-class performance.

aCloud WebOS

by Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya

aCloud Web Operation System running on the cloud

An Introduction to Silverlight

by keesari_anjaiah

The definition of Silverlight, the purpose of the Silverlight technology, and the different versions released so far. You will also read about the development tools required to work with Silverlight.

Basic Questions on Silverlight Technology

by keesari_anjaiah

In this article, you will learn the basics of the Silverlight technology.

Best practices to create your own Fluent library

by Nicolas Dorier

You'll be able to easily and mechanically create your own Fluent library.

Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, and Azure Table Storage

by Modesty Zhang

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).

Building a Multi-Page Image Viewer with ImageGear for Silverlight and Azure

by CaseyMuse

This article will provide a quick tour of the ImageGear for Silverlight toolkit while developing a multi-page image viewer, running completely on the client, via managed code. Once the viewer is built, it will be ready for deployment to the Windows Azure Cloud via an Azure Cloud Service project.

Building an ASP.NET Validator Using Data Annotations

by Gil Fink

The article describes an implementation of an ASP.NET validator that uses the new System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly that came in .NET 3.5 SP1.

Building Modular Silverlight Applications

by Basab Dattaray, Modesty Zhang

This article presents a flexible and practical reusable control that is essential to modular Silverlight applications. It helps to improve a large Silverlight application's composite structure and run time performance.

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications: Chapter 4: Spring AOP 2.0

by Stephanie Rodriguez

The open-source Spring Framework has become a popular application framework for building enterprise Java apps. This chapter explores the newest features in Spring AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming), including @AspectJ-style annotations, the AspectJ pointcut language, Spring AOP XML tags and more.

Catel - Part 0 of n: Why choose Catel?

by Geert van Horrik

This article tries to explain why you should use Catel as the (or one of the) frameworks when developing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications.

Client Ids Generation with ASP.NET 4.0

by Brij

This article discusses about one of the new features "Client ID generation" of ASP.NET 4.0

Configure Silverlight 3 Applications using the Web.config File from ASP.NET

by Dr. Song Li

This article introduces a method to configure Silverlight 3 applications using the Web.config file from ASP.NET.

Create your first Web Application with GOA WinForms

by Jeff Karlson

This article describes how to create a very simple project using GOA WinForms for Flash

Creating a WCF RIA Services Class Library for a Silverlight Application with Code First Approach

by Shenwei Liu

Create and configure WCF RIA Services class library for Silverlight app

Creating and Using/Reusing User Controls in Silverlight

by Marcio_Coelho

The creation of a user control that is built with watermark, tooltip and that can be reused in many areas of your app

CRUD operations in Siverlight using ADO.NET Data Service

by Michael Sync

The simplest way to do CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight using ADO.NET Data Service (Astoria).

Develop Web and Mobile Applications the Easy and Intuitive Web Forms Way

by Visual WebGui

VWG successfully reproduces the Web Forms development experience by offering pure Window Forms development paradigm for Web due to its unique application code virtualization technology which allows to virtualize over Web server rather than OS.

Developing Flex 4 Components Chapter Excerpt: Understanding Flex

by Addison-Wesley

This chapter gives you a better understanding of what Flex is, both as a technology and as a development environment (Flash Builder).

Drawing Infragistics’ New Logo with the HTML5 Canvas

by Murtaza Abdeali

Canvas is one of the principal new elements of HTML5, the next great Web markup language that lets you build Rich Internet Application user interfaces. In this short article, I’ll demonstrate how to use the HTML5 canvas to draw the new Infragistics logo.

Efficiently exposing your data with minimal effort

by V.GNANASEKARAN

An article on how we can expose our data efficiently with minimal effort by leveraging Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services.

Enterprise RIA Development: Comparing Flex/Flash, Silverlight, HTML5/CSS3, jQuery/JavaScript

by David_Tucker

An article that compares Flex/Flash, Silverlight, HTML5/CSS3, jQuery/JavaScript for enterprise RIA development

Exploring Globalization with jQuery

by Brij

This article discusses another official plugin of jQuery that is Globalization

Expressive Business Intelligence with the Infragistics Motion Framework

by Jason Beres

Infragistics delivers better insight into complex business data with their data visualization controls, data visualization user experience and the Infragistics Motion Framework that lets you quickly build rich, interactive data visualizations to give users richer insight with an engaging experience.

Frictionless WCF Service Consumption in Silverlight: Part 1

by Yevhen Bobrov

Consuming WCF Services in Silverlight without static code generation of the service proxy.

Genesis Smart Client v2.0 - Ruby - User Experience Platform

by Stephan Johnson

This article introduces The Genesis Smart Client Framework v2.0 (Project Ruby). It focusses on the user interface component, dubbed the User Experience Platform (UXP), developed using PRISM for WPF and Silverlight.

How to Add Visually Stunning Financial Charts in Silverlight Applications – Part 1

by SunilUrs

Creating Silverlight Financial Chart in XAML

How to Build a Room Booking Calendar with dhtmlxScheduler

by Stas Wolski

This article describes how to implement a meeting room booking system in an ASP.NET MVC project with dhtmlxScheduler.

How to Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Communicate Between Two Local Silverlight Applications

How to determine the processor count from a Silverlight web page

by Eylon Yogev.

How can you tell if a computer has more than one CPU without using any special permissions.

Incorporating Custom HTML5 Implementation with .NET Based Visual WebGui Rich Client

by Visual WebGui

Explore the implementation and integration of HTML5 in the powerful Visual WebGui .NET framework as a custom control using jQuery

Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

by Ernesto Herrera

Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.

Integrating Flex Applications with NHibernate

by Joseph Magly

This article describes how to simplify web application development using Flex, Flash Builder, WebORB, and NHibernate, an open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework.

Integrating Visual Studio LightSwitch Application Into An Existing Website using IFrames

by defwebserver

An advanced LightSwitch tutorial covering PreProcess Queries, Email, PopUps, WCF RIA Services, and HTML pages

Intro to JavaFX - Dummy Chess

by El Bob-O

This article describes my experiences in trying to learn the JavaFX programming language by writing a Chess program.

Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services/RIA Services

by Sacha Barber

An introduction to ADO.NET Data Services / RIA Services.

Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight

by Mohammad Elsheimy

In this article, we’ll see a brief introduction to Microsoft Silverlight, see how it fits with other technologies today, and watch it in action. Get ready!

Making WCF RIA Services work in a DMZ/Multitier architecture using Application Request Routing

by Sandrino Di Mattia

A guide to creating secure Silverlight + WCF RIA Services applications for the enterprise! This is done using Application Request Routing (turning IIS in a reverse proxy).

Model level validation using ASP.NET MVC

by Somnath Mondal

The benefit of putting validation in the model layer is that, the validation rules will be enforced everywhere in the application that accesses the database. It also means that we can change the validation rule in one place and every UI element inside our app will automatically get updated.

Pivot 1.4, Spring and Hibernate is my RPG Game

by Adrabi Abderrahim

Pivot 1.4, Spring and Hibernate is my RPG Game

POCO Entities Through RIA Services

by Beavis Killer

This article demonstrates how to generate plain old class objects (POCO) from the Entity Framework v4 (EF4) and use them through RIA Services in SilverLight version 4.

RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example (using View Model)

by defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight Application that implements Create, Read, Update, and Delete using web services

Setting up Silverlight, RIA Services, NHibernate and Validators

by Bruno Altinet

How to set up a basic application using Silverlight, RIA and NHibernate with top to bottom validation, all nice and fluent:)

Silverlight 4: Creating an Application to Play Offline Media

by Raul Mainardi Neto

Discovering the features of Silverlight 4

Silverlight Cairngorm - Port Cairngorm to .NET

by Modesty Zhang

Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.

Silverlight Cairngorm – Updates for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010

by Modesty Zhang

Silverlight Cairngorm update for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Silverlight Custom Control - Number Tumbler

by Modesty Zhang

Presents the design and interface considerations together with implementation details for NumberTumbler custom control in Silverlight 3 Beta

Silverlight Drag and Drop Custom Controls

by diego jose

How to create Custom Control and Drag and Drop Functionality

Silverlight MVVM Lib and FileUploader Using HttpHandler

by Sacha Barber

A demo app that shows how to upload a file using Silverlight/HttpHandler/MVVM, and includes Silverlight MVVM Library and Helpers.

Silverlight Password Box

by Maciej Gren

A small article about how to create a simple password text box in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Silverlight View Model Communication

by defwebserver

An example of Silverlight View Model communication between Master and Child View Models

Silverlight YouTube Jukebox

by Katka Vaughan

Search and play YouTube videos inside a Silverlight 4.0 application! Learn about RIA Services, right-click event handling, themes, and styles.

Skeleton for a Silverlight business application based on Ria Services and the Ria Services Class Library

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight business applications. It describes breaking down applications into tiers, implementing a data access in N-tier applications, implementing a custom authentication, adding a support of https to Ria Services applications.

SOHA - Service Oriented HTML Application (Concepts and Principles)

by Modesty Zhang

Presents a web app programming model that promotes web standards, achieves high scalability by eliminating classic web server pages, and also enables rich interactivities without browser plug-ins.

SOHA - Service Oriented HTML Application (Session and Security)

by Modesty Zhang

Session Management, Navigation, Security and Data Sharing aspects of SOHA - Service Oriented HTML Application

Split ViewModel

by Asher Barak

Implementing the MVVM Design Pattern with Silvelight - RIA Services.

The Visual WebGui Windows Over Web (WOW) Revolution for Web Development

by itzik.spitzen

Visual WebGui is reshaping web development, the way VB6 did with WOW - Windows Over Web revolution. Visual WebGui enables VB-like drag & drop, object oriented, WYSIWYG development methodologies but adds extension and customization capabilities.

Thread-safe Silverlight Cairngorm

by Modesty Zhang

Some code changes and improvements that make the Silverlight Cairngorm thread-safe

Using Custom Fonts in Silverlight

by priti_sisodia

Describes the usage custom font in Silverlight

Using Silverlight TreeView to Display BI Dimension

by Sergei Dumnov

It explains how to display business intelligence dimension table using Silverlight TreeView

Using the Silverlight DataGrid with View Model / MVVM

by defwebserver

The Silverlight DataGrid using inline editing, paging, sorting, and button events, using the View Model.

WCF RIA Services: ASP.NET Client Web Application

by santosh poojari

Quick ASP.NET development using WCF RIA services

XAML and Silverlight

by Nandini S Anatharam

What is XAML and its basics