Infragistics is already deeply involved in Silverlight development . They are excited about the platform as the next-generation Web UI. They think there are several key wins in Silverlight for Web application development and are exploring how they can best provide controls and tooling to complement what...

The new beta of Silverlight 2 introduces Sockets. The security model enforced by the System.Net.Sockets namespace in Silverlight 2 allows for a connection only back to the site or host of origin. So Silverlight 2 applications will be allowed to connect only to the host from which they were downloaded...

I got some questions about why is Silverlight 2 beta not working on my production Web server? Well, one of the most errors I found is the missing MIME type definition in IIS. Silverlight 2 doesn't compile a DLL as the beta 1.1 did. The new file extension is .XAP. The only thing you have to do is following...

I came across a great post about updated Silverlight 2 roadmap . Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap. When exactly will Silverlight support all the codecs that a standard...

A Button is one of the most common elements used in an interactive application. In Silverlight 2, it is possible to specify nearly any control’s appearance by using a ControlTemplate. The control’s template can be defined within the control’s <ControlTemplate/> inner property, or it can be built...

Today I updated my Surface Demo (original source from Silverlight examples ). Well, there are only some small changes since last beta 1.1. So I have added a DeepZoom control ( MultiScaleImage ) to the demo : See the online demo here .