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  • Super Tower Defense Game
    Mar 10, 2010

    New to the games section is the new Super Tower Defense game. Defend your base from the ever advancing army of tanks, buggies...

  • New Rich Text Editor User Control
    Feb 19, 2010

    By popular request, here we present a re-usable User Control containing the Liquid RichTextBox along with the most common formatting functions included.

  • Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.7 Released
    Feb 19, 2010

    This release includes several fixes for issues raised in the forum. The main improvement is to the RichTextBox which now provides access and methods to the document elements allowing...

  • Super Shoot Em Up Game
    Feb 04, 2010

    Added to the games section is the new Super Shoot 'Em Up game. Take control of a tank with your aim being to blow up your opposing tanks and collect all the powerups.

  • Silverlight 3 Controls V5.2.6 Released
    Feb 04, 2010

    This release includes some minor fixes for several forum posts. Please see the notes on the download page for full details on what has changed.

Silverlight Tutorials

In this section you will find examples of how to use the Liquid Silverlight Controls in your own application.  There are also general examples of how to achieve other things in Silverlight such as right click context menus, web camera and much more.

Available Tutorials

Creating a Mac Style Silverlight ListBox

In this article the standard Silverlight ListBox will be customized to be functionally similar to a ListBox you would find on a Mac.

Desktop Drag and Drop

Desktop Drag and Drop Files With Silverlight 4 is the new Drop event which is present on all elements derived from UIElement.

3D Effects

Silverlight 3 3D Effect With the release of Silverlight 3 which includes support for 3D rendering, here we show an example.

WebBrowser - Rendering HTML

WebBrowser - Rendering HTML in Silverlight In previous versions of Silverlight if you needed to display some HTML in your application.

Drag and Drop in Silverlight

Here we show how to drag and drop a RichTextBox, though the code could be adapted to drag any element around.

Pixel Shader Effects

Silverlight 3 Pixel Shader Effects Silverlight 3 has given us some cool effects such as drop shadows and motion blur.

Dynamic Transforms

Applying transforms to elements in XAML is fairly straight forward, for example the following will rotate some text...

Web Camera

Web Camera - Capturing still Images The new CaptureSource object allows you to capture audio and video from your computers webcam.

Writable Bitmaps

Silverlight 3 Writable Bitmaps A very useful feature of Silverlight 3 is its ability to render any UI element to a Bitmap.

Creating a Magnifying Glass Effect

Here we show you the basics of creating a Silverlight magnifying glass, where you will be able to position the cursor over an image and click to zoom in on the image.

Local File Access

Local File Access - Building a Local File System TreeView When a Silverlight application is running with elevated permissions.

Communicating with Excel

Communicating with Excel When a Silverlight 4 application is running with Elevated Permissions you can access COM objects.

Rendering HTML in Silverlight

Converting Rich Text to and from HTML would be very useful for applications such as Forums, web CMS's etc.

Communicating with Word

Communicating with MS Word When a Silverlight 4 application is running with Elevated Permissions you can access COM objects.

Rendering Order with the Z-Index

Here we explain how Silverlight determines rendering order of elements.

RichTextArea

The RichTextArea Control This new Silverlight 4 only control allows you to input RichText into your Silverlight application.

Validating Controls in Silverlight

If ever you have done validation of form controls in ASP.NET or Desktop applications then validating controls in Silverlight will be easy to get to grips with.

Notification Window

Desktop Notification Window This useful tutorial demonstrates how to use the NotificationWindow in order to show useful information.

Using XML in Silverlight

XML is important in the world of Silverlight especially where Web Services are involved. Here we show the basics of using the XML Reader object.

Right Mouse Button

Context Menu with the Right Mouse Button Events Introduced in Silverlight 4 are several new events, two of these MouseRightButtonDown.

Clipboard Copy and Paste

Clipboard Copying and Pasting Previously if you wanted to perform copying and pasting in Silverlight you would need to use Javascript.

Silverlight Controls

  • Rich TextBox

    Create and edit rich content with this slick and expandable Rich TextBox...

  • TreeView

    This easy to use TreeView comes with drag and drop, sorting, searching and much more...

  • Context Menu

    You too can have cool popup context menus in your Silverlight applications...

  • Resizable Dialog

    Draggable and resizable popup dialogs are what serious Silverlight developers need...

  • Spell Checker

    Real-time spell checking in Silverlight? We did it first here...