Silverlight Shinobi

Secret techniques, tips and deadly tricks with Silverlight!

HTML5 in MVC

Live Demo - Source Code HTML5 is a hot topic lately and developers are eagerly investigating ways to...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 02/09/2012

Silverlight pre-cache dlls in browser cache - the secret compressed dlls as png Trick!

This is a trick used by the Bing Maps Silverlight folks - but as far as I can tell (by Binging the...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 08/29/2011

Identifying the root of a memory leak in Silverlight using windbg

Considering all of the nasty blog comments out there you would think it be easy to create a test...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 08/24/2011

Debugging Silverlight with windbg (finding eaten exceptions)

Lately lot's of people are asking me the question “Isn’t Silverlight dead?” Even...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 08/04/2011

ClickOnce Protocol Handler (also works for Silvelight or Xbap)

So if your goal is to create a protocol handler so that you can create a link with some data in it,...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 12/20/2008

Shared Resources XAML Intellisense

[ I'll provide a full solution download to anyone interested ] Our Goals were: 1) Use images in XAML...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 03/29/2008

AJAX, XBAP, Silverlight

Ramblings (in response to a question)… I would have to know a lot more about his requirements before...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 01/08/2008

Download Pictures from your Cell Phone via Bluetooth

If you have a bluetooth enabled laptop and a bluetooth enabled cellphone you may be able to download...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 01/05/2008

SQL 2005 - XML parsing... illegal xml character

You may run into an error when using SQL 2005 and a .NET 2.0 aspx or windows client UI. Perhaps...

Author: Robert Evans (REDMOND) Date: 12/20/2007