The Expression Blend design tool aims to keep designers productive by giving them access to pre-packaged components that enable common interactive tasks to...

User interfaces change state. An email client might have online/offline views and might display emails in full/collapsed views. At a more granular level, a...

Much like a regular HTML application, a Silverlight application can be structured as a set of pages with navigation links between them. This allows not only...

Silverlight has an animation system whereby most properties on user interface elements can be animated – properties like width, height, rotation, color and...

One of the defining characteristics of a RIA is the ability to cross the network and grab resources. There are many ways to do this in Silverlight, but here...

Welcome to the second part of creating an iTunes-inspired Wallview. In this part we are going to write the whole code in C# for the two UserControls that we...

As the title states, we're going to create a Wallview inspired by iTunes. This tutorial is split up into two parts - one for the design in Blend and the...

Silverlight is known as a "browser plug-in" but it can easily be used to build 3 different kinds of applications cross-platform. There's the browser app, the...

One of Silverlight's most powerful features is that the built-in controls have a look-and-feel that comes from a template. These templates can be replaced to...

Yesterday, Carlos examined the Google AJAX API and Flash. Today, we're going to look at creating a Silverlight Translator Application using the Microsoft...

The Silverlight category over at Activetuts+ has been steadily gaining momentum over the last couple of months. However, the world of RIA's covers a broad...

This is a quick look at how to use MediaElement in Expression Blend to form the starting point of a custom video/audio player.