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Silverlight: Setting MIME Types for Silverlight in IIS
Deploying Silverlight apps is pretty easy but often one of the steps is overlooked. That step is MIME types. (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) MIME types define the content type.
To set the MIME types for Silverlight follow these steps
1. Open (more...)
Silverlight: How to read RSS in Silverlight 3
RSS is an essential part of the internet and is almost used on every website from youtube to (more...)
Silverlight: Custom ChildWindow popup
Often when building Silverlight RIA you need to prompt the user to confirm an action; Say you are deleting an item you want to make sure they approve the deletion. Just like you do in Windows/Mac OS. In Silverlight 3 the ChildWindow control was added (more...)
Silverlight: How to obfuscate a font and use it in a Silverlight Application
You have your design almost in the bag, you have a font that you want to use but how can you use that font in Silverlight. Without distributing a font (which would be illegal unless you had a license to do this) requires you to obfuscate the font. (more...)
Silverlight: Detect Network Changes
When building RIAs you often rely on data being downloaded when up front via the preloader which is find for getting the look and feel and some static content but when you need to display specific data which the user has input into often you need to (more...)
Silverlight: Change Background Colour programatically using C#
Often you want to change the colour when you perform an action to indicate to the user that something has happened. In Silverlight this can be done in may ways including using states, styles and directly changing the controls foreground or background (more...)
