Gizmox announces the release of version 6.2.1 of its SDK. The Visual Webgui SDK now incorporates both the DHTML and the Silverlight and enables to work with both .NET 2.0 and 3.5 on the same machine. In addition, the new release includes the new wrapper feature announced earlier . Here is a more detailed...

There are scenarios when you want to Format the bound string value for example you want to display the long names as nadeemIq... or display a different value based on the bound string value & get back the original value. So here is IValueConverter interface which is used to achieve such scenarios...

I was working on the unbound SilverLight DataGrid and thought to write one in this regard, There are scenarios when you don't have a predefined collection of objects to bind to SilverLight DataGrid or you don't know the structure of the object to bind with untill run time. For Example you want to bind...

When writing unit tests for the Silverlight application, its important to write the unit test for the value converters so that you could test whether converters are working fine or not as Value Converters are most commonly used in Silverlight applications. IValueConverter interface exposes two methods...

Some good stuff: (Thanks Scott) May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. You can also now...

There are scenarios when you want to directly upload the file from the client browser/application to S3. Amazon provides simple POST method to upload files to amazon File Upload . That method is not acceptable when you want to upload the file(s) programatically using any programming language such as...

In Silverlight, you will bind the controls such as List/Grid with Observable collection so that any change in the collection automatically reflected on the control. Often you will be required to convert the List to an observable collection but there isn't exist any method which automatically do so in...

Named & optional parameters are a new C# language feature coming up with .NET FX 4.0 and guess what… it’s in Silverlight 4 as well! Optional parameters will come very useful when defining complex APIs where you would usually have to provide several overloads for the same method for it to make sense...

Depending on the type of application you are building it may be necessary for you to register a CName record with your Storage Account that you created. There are many reasons that you may want to perform this registration such as if you are building a Silverlight/Flash Application that requires that...

Overview Developing an application that plays media files on a Windows Phone 7 Device seems fairly straight forward. However, what can make this a bit frustrating are the necessary requirements in order to pass the WP7 marketplace requirements so that your application can be published. If you are new...