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SilverlightCream grew out of a series of blog posts of the same name to try to bring the best of the community Silverlight code to the forefront for developers.

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Modular Silverlight Development, App.xaml, Blend and Resources
Author: Sergey Barskiy
Date Added: 20100902

I wanted to isolate my resource files, so I created a separate project that included my XAML resources, such as styles

Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010)
Author: Tim Heuer
Date Added: 20100902

we released an update to Silverlight 4 (update build is 4.0.50826.0) along with an updated SDK

HTML5, XAML and Declarative User Interfaces
Author: Shawn Wildermuth
Date Added: 20100902

At the suggestion of Tim Heuer this week, I took a break from writing my Windows Phone 7 book to delve into HTML5 a bit

Default button semantics in Silverlight, once more
Author: Patrick Cauldwell
Date Added: 20100902

A while back I posted a revision to my original default button sample that made it a bit easier to use, but there was still an issue...

LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background
Author: David Anson
Date Added: 20100902

In this first post, I'll be demonstrating the use of the LowProfileImageLoader class. (A future post will explore the DeferredLoadListBox class which is also part of the sample download

Encoding MP4 Problem in Expression Encoder 4 Pro
Author: Michael Sync
Date Added: 20100902

I wanna tell you guys about one problem that I’m facing with Expression Encoder 4 Pro

Hello, MEF Silverlight
Author: Jeremy Likness
Date Added: 20100902

The purpose of this quick start is to familiarize you with the Managed Extensibility Framework by composing a "part" in Silverlight.

New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Style a Hyperlink Button
Author: Victor Gaudioso
Date Added: 20100902

@bill44077 Tweeted me and asked me to show him how to change the color of a Hyperlink Button when the mouse is over it. So, I rolled up my sleeves and created this short, 5 minute video that shows how to do exactly that

Rect and Point Extension Methods
Author: René Schulte
Date Added: 20100902

I wrote a few extension methods for the Point and Rect structs that might come handy.

Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application
Author: John Pape
Date Added: 20100902

John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend.

Marquee Text Block Demo
Author: Todd Knudsen
Date Added: 20100902

Silverlight 4 Marquee TextBox Control ... all definable in XAML

Microsoft LightSwitch – Using the Is Computed Field Property
Author: Paul Patterson
Date Added: 20100901

Here’s a little diddy about how to use the Is Computed field property in LightSwitch.

Using the Is Computed Field Property
Author: Beth Massi
Date Added: 20100901

I’m back at it with three more “How Do I” videos on Visual Studio LightSwitch

Validating Collections of Entities (Sets of Data) in LightSwitch
Author: Beth Massi
Date Added: 20100901

LightSwitch makes it easy to write business rules in one place and run them in the appropriate tiers

Changing the Background and Foreground Colors for an Application Bar on WP7
Author: Derik Whittaker
Date Added: 20100901

you are still able to change the Background and Foreground colors [of the Application Bar] in order to spice up application

Silverlight Application Life Cycle
Author: Dinesh Sodani
Date Added: 20100901

I will try to explain Silverlight Application Life Cycle.

Building a Windows Phone 7 App – Sudoku (Part 3)
Author: jbaird
Date Added: 20100901

This completes the creation of the game board and game page

Update to List Picker Control
Author: priozersk
Date Added: 20100901

I've made a few updates to the original code for the List picker control

Creating List Picker for WP7
Author: priozersk
Date Added: 20100901

For the application that I am working on right now I needed a control that would allow a user to select a single item from a small list. Similar to how the list picker is defined in the design templates:

Authorization Sample 305 – Permission-Based Authorization for Silverlight
Author: Kyle McClellan
Date Added: 20100901

In this post, I will show a specific example where I show how to extend the authorization library to support read and write permissions.

Authorization Sample 304 – MVVM Authorization for Silverlight
Author: Kyle McClellan
Date Added: 20100901

In this post, I will show a specific example where I put together an authorized form using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.

Emulating the Accelerometer in Windows Phone 7 emulator using Freescale Semiconductor accelerometer
Author: Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios
Date Added: 20100901

Since I have a Freescale badge that comes with an accelerometer sensor (among others) that works with the Sensor and Location platform in Windows 7, I decided to create a small Windows application that could ‘send’ accelerometer values to the emulator.

Windows Phone 7: Navigating After A Picture/Camera Task
Author: Matthias Shapiro
Date Added: 20100901

While working on a Windows Phone 7 project I came up against a problem in which the project would crash after we took a picture

WP7: Windows Phone 7 Application Platform
Author: Anton Polimenov
Date Added: 20100901

In part 7 of the Windows Phone 7 series, Anton Polimenov talks about the WP7 Application Platform

Silverlight TreeView Case Study - FAQ Maintenance - Part 2
Author: Benjamin Gavin
Date Added: 20100831

Part 2 of the series presents a complete, rich UI for maintaining a categorized list of Frequently Asked Questions

Silverlight Behavior : HisowaModPopUpBehavior
Author: Haruhiro Isowa
Date Added: 20100831

Built from the hisowaSimplePopUpBehavior, this one will allow you to create your own View and View Model and inject it to my PopUp Behavior and get the datacontext in the result

Windows Phone 7 ‘Bar napkin’ template PDFs
Author: Scott Fletcher
Date Added: 20100831

The Design Templates for Window 7 is an excellent start, and there are some other great resources available from the official developer site, but I needed some sheets with blank mockup screens…

Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part one - the “Infinite ListBox”
Author: Georgi Atanasov
Date Added: 20100831

With these series of blogs I want to reveal some tricky moments in developing a simple DatePicker control for WP7

PivotViewer – Custom Actions
Author: Timmy Kokke
Date Added: 20100831

In this tutorial about the Silverlight PivotViewer control I would like to explain how to make use of Custom Actions

Making your Content Scrollable
Author: Kirupa Chinnathambi
Date Added: 20100831

Every now and then, your application may require your users to scroll through a boatload of content.

A Convention based Approach for wiring your Views to ViewModels in MVVM - AutoViewModelLocator
Author: Anoop Madhusudanan
Date Added: 20100831

I was a bit lazy to create a property per ViewModel in the ViewModelLocator, and thought it is nice if I get my ViewModels resolved by convention. Thus born the AutoViewModelLocator

Advanced Silverlight bitmaps
Author: Mike James
Date Added: 20100831

In this article we look as the problems of loading bitmaps and generating them dynamically

Listening to DependencyProperty changes in Silverlight
Author: Beat Kiener
Date Added: 20100831

Receiving notifications for dependency property changes on an existing object is a very common scenario in order to update my view model or the UI.

TimeslotPanel
Author: Rudi Grobler
Date Added: 20100831

at the heart of this control is a flexible layout panel called a TimeslotPanel!

LightSwitch Tutorial – Creating a Basic Application
Author: Lightswitch Tutorial
Date Added: 20100831

This tutorial will demonstrate the creation of a simple LightSwitch application which will be a simple customers application with a single table of customers.

Managing Trial Applications for Windows Phone 7
Author: Jeff Brand
Date Added: 20100831

Unfortunately for WP7 devs, there is no easy way to control the IsTrial() results when developing and debugging their applications

wFace – windows phone 7 facebook integration part 1
Author: Manfred Pohler
Date Added: 20100831

This article shows how to use the Facebook graph_API in a windows phone 7 Silverlight application

Windows Phone 7 ListBox Pagination with MVVMLight & ApplicationBar
Author: Indrajit
Date Added: 20100831

I am currently working on a Windows Phone 7 application where MVVMLight forms the foundation of the application. In a certain part of the application, I have a list of requirements

Exploring Silverlight-XNA integration on Windows Phone 7
Author: Levente Mihály
Date Added: 20100831

o why should a SilverlightShow reader care about XNA? Because the two platforms are more-or-less compatible with each other, meaning you can use XNA assemblies in your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight applications

Building the Elusive Windows Phone Panorama Control
Author: Erik Klimczak
Date Added: 20100831

Here at Clarity we decided to build our own Panorama control for use in some of our prototypes and I figured I would share what we came up with.

A DotNetNuke Silverlight Expense Report Module
Author: Michael Washington
Date Added: 20100829

This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal

Smooth…Springy…Scrunchy - WP7 List behavior
Author: Erik Klimczak
Date Added: 20100829

Unfortunately, some of these subtleties don’t ship by default with the windows phone controls. So with some help from my college kmarshall we cranked out some of the interactions and packaged them up in a behavior.

WP7 Gesture Recognizer and Behavior / Triggers
Author: Kevin Marshall
Date Added: 20100829

Here is a quick gesture recognizer I wrote for the Windows Phone 7

WP7 Missing Control: WP7 Jump List
Author: Erik Klimczak
Date Added: 20100829

Today I would like to share some techniques I used in recreating the “jump list” functionality that is shown in the Windows Phone 7 Features Video

XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone
Author: Mike Ormond
Date Added: 20100829

One of the things I showed at the WPUG meeting was accessing XNA APIs from Silverlight. In some cases because it’s the only way to achieve what you need

TechEd Australia 2010 (+ Upcoming SilverlightShow.net Webcast) Sample Application
Author: Chris Anderson
Date Added: 20100829

This is the sample application for my TechEd Australia 2010 session on Taking Silverlight Applications Outside the Browser, and my webcast for the SilverlightShow.net website of the same name

Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7
Author: Derik Whittaker
Date Added: 20100829

How to create your own popup notification.

Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4
Author: Michael Crump
Date Added: 20100829

I noticed a lot of confusion around flashing text in Silverlight 4/WPF and wanted to show you a simple way to pull it off using Blend 4

Redirecting an initial navigation
Author: Peter Torr
Date Added: 20100829

One more post on the subject of keeping screens out of the backstack

Introducing the concept of “Places”
Author: Peter Torr
Date Added: 20100829

As we’ve previously discussed, Windows Phone 7 applications are composed of pages that exist on a back stack and can be accessed by the user with the hardware Back key.

WP7 – Context Menu From Listbox
Author: Ryan Alford
Date Added: 20100829

even though the OS seems to support a long press action, that action doesn’t seem to be available to developers. So I decided to roll my own

Silverlight dynamic point to point animation with EasingFunction
Author: Amyo Kabir
Date Added: 20100829

My article is divided into two section: Section 1: Will show you how to create a point to point animation with EasingFunction using Blend Section 2: How to set the point value dynamically in code behind

Tips & Tricks: How to get the Screen Resolution in Silverlight?
Author: Kunal Chowdhury
Date Added: 20100829

In this Tips & Tricks, I will show you the steps by which you can get the Screen Resolution of Client’s PC in Silverlight Application