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A similar question just popped up on a list I’m on, so I thought I’d whip up a quick example on how to resize a Silverlight application while keeping the same aspect ratio and centering the content.   The key to resizing is to use a ScaleTransform on the LayoutRoot of your main page. Here’s the important part of the xaml for the page. The ...

For those of you working with Silverlight 2, are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other? Either way, drop me a note in the comments below. I’m interested in getting a feel for ...

In the previous two parts of this article (I had planned only 2 parts total, but this ended up a three-part article), I explained how to use Pub/Sub and the EventBus for chaining service calls in Silverlight 2 applications. You can access those articles here: Part 1: Async Service Call Chaining Part 2: More on Service Call Chaining In ...

Andrew Duthie just published my second DevNuggets episode. In this installment, titled Styling 101, I cover the basics of styling Silverlight controls. The videos are intended to be quick, short installments following a theme starting from the very basics and getting gradually more advanced. You can view the video here. I hope you find it ...

The Silverlight Control Builder Contest ‘08 has started! Build a compelling Silverlight 2 control and win some cool stuff! This is a great contest to see what you developers in the community can kick out in Silverlight 2. Even if you can’t enter the contest, head on over to the contest FAQ and download a badge you can use to help ...

In my previous post, I discussed how to chain service calls. One question I received on that was how to do the opposite: take an action after all the calls (or by extension, some logical groups of calls) have completed. This is one of the challenges with working with async service calls. Rather than have a single function that makes a bunch of ...

The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates. By abstracting it out just a little and applying concepts from other bus patterns, we gain a ton of ...

For the Facebook Silverlight 2 Beta 2 application I'm writing, I need to be able to process a number of RSS feeds. In Silverlight 2 Beta 2, processing RSS is, well, really simple :) Here's a class and associated event and exception classes I wrote to handle downloading the feed, and loading it into the RSS objects: #region Support Classes ...

Sometimes I hear about something for the first time and figure I must live under a rock. I make a point of keeping up on a number of new things, but it's hard to keep track of all the cool services and technologies available to you these days. Tim Heuer just today turned me on to Yahoo Pipes when I asked about proxying some services to provide ...

In response to a question at last Friday's Silverlight TechFest event, I said that I believed Beta 2 was supported even on Visual Studio Express. I was incorrect. XNA supports Visual Studio Express (and I had been reading about XNA the night before), but Silverlight requires at least Visual Studio Standard. Standard is pretty reasonably priced at ...