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Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 3 was released July 9, 2009

Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications with emphasis on multimedia, animations, and graphics, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for most web browsers. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, current versions support multimedia, graphics and animation, and give developers support for CLI languages and development tools.

Silverlight 3 introduced

  • Tooling
  • Controls
    • DataForm
    • DataPager
    • Navigation (SEO, deep linking)
    • New Toolkit Controls
  • Media Graphics
    • 3D Pixel Effects
    • Animation Easing
    • Bitmap API
    • GPU Acceleration
    • Text/Image Improvements
  • Element-to-Element Binding
  • LocalConnection API
  • Binding Validation UI
  • SaveFileDialog
  • Dynamic Styling and BasedOn
  • CaretBrush
  • Merged ResourceDictionary
  • Assembly Caching N
  • Network monitoring API
  • Out-of-browser and Offline
  • .NET RIA Services
  • Binary XML
  • Web Service Utility

See also:

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How to use Canvas as the ItemsPanel for an ItemsControl in Silverlight 3

I am trying to set the Canvas properties in an ItemsControl DataTemplate with Silverlight 3. According to this post, the only way of doing that is to set it using the ItemsContainerStyle for the ContentPresenter type, since the Canvas properties…
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Best Practice For Location Of Styles In Silverlight

Where is the best place to put Style StaticResources? I have been putting the global and default styles in app.xaml and the page specific styles in page_name.xaml. Should every control have its own style StaticResource? Is it acceptable to put some…
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RIA Services vs ADO.NET Data Services

I'm currently in the process of creating a Silverlight 3 data driven application. To access the database, 2 common approaches are used: RIA Services and ADO.NET Data Services. Does anyone have any guidance on when/why to choose each approach? …
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What is Tombstoning in WP7?

I have seen the word Tombstoning in many tutorials. I did not get what it actually means. Can you please explain?
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How do you set CacheMode on an element programmatically?

Silverlight 3 introduced the CacheMode parameter on elements. Currently the only supported format is BitmapCache. In XAML this value can set as the following: I would like to do the same…
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Error when binding a Dependency Property on a custom Behavior

I am exploring the Silverlight attached behaviors mechanism in order to use the Model-View-ViewModel pattern within my Silverlight applications. To start with, I am trying to get a simple Hello World working, but I am completely stuck in an error…
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silverlight out of browser - icons

Does anyone know how to change icons in Silverlight outofbrowser application?
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How do I disable the exit button on a Silverlight 3 Child Window?

I mean the small exit/cancel button marked with an X in the top right hand corner. I want to implement a Logon dialog box that accepts a username/password so obviously I don't want the user to be able to dismiss the modal pop up. If it is not…
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Using MergedDictionaries in generic.xaml in Silverlight 3

In WPF it was possible to organise the XAML for multiple user controls by keeping the markup in separate XAML files in the themes folder and then using MergedDictionaries to import them into generic.xaml: …
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MVVM - RaisePropertyChanged turning code into a mess

New to MVVM so please excuse my ignorance. I THINK i'm using it right but I find my ViewModel has too many of these: RaisePropertyChanged("SomeProperty") Every time I set a property I have to raise that damned property changed. I miss the days…
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How to Debug XAML Parsing Errors in Silverlight?

I run into the following issue semi-regularly: I make changes to XAML or some resources used by it and when I go to load up the Silverlight project in debug mode it only gets as far as the spinning Silverlight-loading animation. I've tried attaching…
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Silverlight Stability

I don't know if anyone can advise about this one. We have written and implemented a LOB Silverlight 3 application - which we are currently testing at a clients site. We have come across the problem, where on a few of the machines on site the…
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Possible to programmatically add User Control to Silverlight Grid Column?

I have a User Control that I need to programmatically add to a Silverlight Grid t a specified Row and Column index. The requirements are such that I will need to insert at arbitrary indices, such that pure databinding is perhaps not ideal. I would…
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Prevent Silverlight 3 from caching while debugging

I'm assuming the issue I'm having is related to caching. Code changes I make are not getting picked up when I debug. Most times I get served a previous version of the app. How do I prevent this from happening?
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How to get style in code from resource dictionary?

If you put style in app.xmal, then you can get the style with the code like: Style = Application.Current.Resources["myStyle"] as Style; But if I put style in a dictionary resource of a separate file Styles.xmal like: …
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