I noticed today Blend 3 was performing very slow to render any type of graphics. Also when I was creating component in SketchFlow Blend 3 would take forever to render and switch between the screen and component.

We will look at how we can leverage WebClient and AssemblyPart to create kind of plug and play Silverlight 3 application.

Imagine that you have silverlight that does not require redeployment and only thing you have to redeploy is your reflectively loaded assemblies during runtime!

In MSDN about Silverlight 3, there is new feature called Application Library Caching.This tutorial is to explor this new feature and verify that it does work.

Question is why is this compelling new feature?

In Silverlight 2 there were couple of ways to take advantage of browser caching and it was to download resources. In Silverlight 3 there is support to accomplish this out of the box. When application gets compiled and re-deployed we do not want the resources to be re downloaded unless the resources such as images changed because it takes too much time. Just imagine having WMV as resources and you are forced to download everytime new Silverlight application is deployed!
 

Having Microsoft offline documentation (CHM) is extremely useful because it is faster and does not need internet. Also it is great learning specially when you are travelling and need something to read!

Silverlight has nice support for full screen. Only problem is that when Silverlight application goes into full screen mode none of the controls will scale properly. One of the biggest advantage of using vector graphics is that when the resolution increases controls are expected to increase and not lose the quality.

So how can we scale the elements when Silverlight application goes into Full Screen mode?

 By default Silverlight 3 comes with BlurEffect and DropShadowEffect. Fortunately in codeplex there are more comprehensive effects that can be used in Silverlight 3 (BandedSwirl, Bloom, BrightExtract, ColorKeyAlpha, ColorTone, ContrastAdjust, DirectionalBlur, Embossed, Gloom, GrowablePoissonDiskEffect, InvertColor, LightStreak, Magnify, Monochrome, Pinch, Pixelate, Ripple, Sharpen, SmoothMagnify, Swirl, Tone, Toon, and ZoomBlur )

This will quickly show you how to create ASP.NET membership database and start using Visual Studio to create users, and roles.

I will be posting various Silverlight tutorials to help developers. I will be using http://silverlight.newagesolution.net to post tutorials but using blog to notify RSS subscribers. The reason I am using http://silverlight.newagesolution.net is to create dedicated Silverlight tutorial site for my own reference in case I forget to do things :)

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