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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.

This site is simply an aggregation of links and information about Silverlight applications, code, games, tutorials, or resources produced and hosted by others. The "Search" link on the left provides multiple options to search through the stored information.

If you're a developer and want to contribute your links to our database, please select the "Submit" link on the left and follow the instructions on that page.

As material is submitted (and moderated) I will post links and information about them based on submittals to this site.

Please feel free to contact me with suggestions or problems

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Silverlight Desktop Blog
Author: Michael Washington
Date Added: 20080704

Silverlight and DNN blogger

Prompting the user to install the correct version of Silverlight (MinimumVersion="2.0")
Author: Michael Washington
Date Added: 20080704

I discovered that you have to add MinimumVersion="2.0" to the properties for the control that launches the Silverlight application to prompt users to install the correct version of Silverlight.

Stock List Demo Optimised
Author: Peter McGrattan
Date Added: 20080704

I’ve recently addressed some comments on the blog and also optimised the Stock List Demo sample application

Asynchronous loading of TimelineMarkers for Silverlight Video Player
Author: Joel Neubeck
Date Added: 20080704

As part of the ongoing evolution of our Open Source Silverlight Video Player on CodePlex, I added the ability to asynchronously load a set of TimeLineMarkers from an XML document

Deep Zooming EVERYTHING!
Author: Alex Knight
Date Added: 20080704

So I have been a little Deep Zoom crazy lately, playing around with different options and things you can do with this great feature of Silverlight

LayoutTransform functionality updated and enhanced for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!
Author: David Anson
Date Added: 20080704

I've added full support for arbitrary transformations to LayoutTransformControl along with updating it for Beta 2

Updating Silverlight.js and Firefox 3
Author: Tim Heuer
Date Added: 20080704

I’m hoping this post will help explain a few things with regard to Silverlight detection scripts that some sites may be using.

Consuming ASMX Web Services with Silverlight 2
Author: Martin Mihaylov
Date Added: 20080702

Recently I needed to use a web service in order to get some data for my Silverlight application and I found that using an ASMX web service with Silverlight 2 could be quite easy. Though, for people who have never used such service it could be not that easy. So I decided to make this “step-by-step” tutorial and I hope it could be useful to someone.

Mike Hanson
Author: Mike Hanson
Date Added: 20080702

Silverlight BLogger

Silverlight Navigation Framework (NavFx)
Author: Mike Hanson
Date Added: 20080702

NavFx is a navigation framework for Silverlight 2.* applications. It simplifies the implementation of simple or complex navigation scenarios as well as supporting optimisation of complex SL applications through dynamic loading of pages from libraries.

Search for Rich Internet Applications
Author: Nikhil Kothari
Date Added: 20080702

If you're developing a web site, especially a public facing site, search and indexability are probably high on your list of requirements and priorities.

Free Silverlight 2 Refcard from DZone
Author: Chad Campbell
Date Added: 20080701

We are proud to announce that our newest refcard on Silverlight has just been released

ItemsPanelTemplate Differences in SL and WPF
Author: Lee
Date Added: 20080701

I was changing the ItemsPanelTemplate of Listbox and set the Position of Elements generated using TranslateTransform WPF app works fine, while the Silverlight app crashes. As far as I can tell the code is same

Progressive Metal – And, oh yeah, Silverlight
Author: Jesse Liberty
Date Added: 20080701

I’m going to lay out a project, and then…. well I’ll write the code, but not yet.

Changing Silverlight Control Appearance with Corrina Barber
Author: Sparkling Client Podcasts
Date Added: 20080701

Corrina Barber joins us to talk about the different ways to change appearance in Silverlight.

Free Silverlight 2 training CD
Author: Tim Heuer
Date Added: 20080701

The team at AppDev has heard some feedback and has altered their offer.

Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2
Author: Tim Heuer
Date Added: 20080701

One of probably the coolest casual ‘games’ I’ve ever seen is Line Rider.

Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight (VIEWS)
Author: Marc
Date Added: 20080701

The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many

Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 2) Navigation
Author: Pete Brown
Date Added: 20080701

In this part, I'll cover how I use this same pattern for UI navigation in a Silverlight application

Silverlight DevNuggets Episode 2 is Now Up
Author: Pete Brown
Date Added: 20080701

Andrew Duthie just published my second DevNuggets episode. In this installment, titled Styling 101, I cover the basics of styling Silverlight controls.

Declarative Tweening (2)
Author: Koen Swikstra
Date Added: 20080701

In my previous article on Declarative Tweening I talked about a solution for having Tweening animations declared in XAML.

Building a Simple Custom Control in Silverlight 2
Author: Adam Kinney
Date Added: 20080701

With the recent announcement of the Silverlight Controls Builder Contest, I thought it may be useful to post code that creates a very simple custom control.

VSM Strangeness
Author: Page Brooks
Date Added: 20080701

While migrating a Silverlight 2 Beta 1 control to Beta 2, I encountered some odd behavior with the VisualStateManager

How to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and Silverlight managed objects from HTML?
Author: Tamir Khason
Date Added: 20080701

After my session yesterday, I got number of email from people, who have a problem to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and vice verse.

Tip of the Day #14 – How to Right Click on a Silverlight Application.
Author: Mike Snow
Date Added: 20080701

While right click functionality is not currently supported in Silverlight, there is a work-around.

Tip of the Day #13 - How to Get an Images Dimensions in Silverlight.
Author: Mike Snow
Date Added: 20080701

Since Silverlight is based upon an asynchronized model, getting an image width and height immediately after loading it is not possible. However, you can monitor its download progress and obtain the image dimensions once the progress has reached 100%.

Loading images in Silverlight 2
Author: Joel Neubeck
Date Added: 20080701

Reading through the Silverlight.net forum I still see a ton of people struggling with how to load an image procedurally. I thought it would be beneficial to included a quick sample of four different ways you can set the Image.Source property within Silverlight 2.

ContentPresenter in Items Controls
Author: chrishayuk
Date Added: 20080630

This frustrated me a little today.  In Silverlight 2 Beta 2, if you attempt to use a ContentPresenter within an ItemsControl your application hangs indefinately

WebClient and LINQ Demo
Author: Tim Rule
Date Added: 20080630

This sample illustrates a simple usage of the WebClient and a LINQ query.

Data Conversion in Silverlight 2 Data Binding
Author: Emil Stoychev
Date Added: 20080630

A common scenario in data binding is to format the data displayed in the UI. Almost every time you show a date or a price you need to format it. Silverlight and WPF are using the so called converters to apply custom logic to a binding.

Printouts of the slides, presented on Silverlight 2.0 open house today
Author: Tamir Khason
Date Added: 20080630

Thank you all, who participated today in Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications event. I uploaded printouts of the slides, presented during the session here. So, you can download it for reference.

Silverlight 2 beta1 - Best of SilverlightCream
Author: Michael Sync
Date Added: 20080630

I’ve been reading Dave’s Silverlight Cream since long time back and I have the list of links that I like the most from his blog. I don’t want to throw away those valuable links even those are no longer with with Silverlight 2 beta 2 (the latest version of SL 2 so far).

Silverlight 2 beta2 - Samples Updated
Author: Michael Sync
Date Added: 20080630

Me and Chris updated our samples to support the latest version of Silverlight 2 beta2.

Declarative Tweening
Author: Koen Zwikstra
Date Added: 20080630

Declare Tweener animations in XAML without having to write a single line of code. Opens up a world of new possibilities include the use of Tweener animations with the Visual State Manager.