When we build custom application for the client we want that final touch of giving customer custom loader and here is how you do it.

When first time learning Silverlight even simple as going from Silverlight page to page seems to be strange. We will look at very simple solution to the problem of navigatin from page to page.

DataStateSwitchBehavior is very useful when implementing any kind of MVVM. Thing of DataSwitchBehavior as switch statement of states. Based on bound data appropriate state will be selected.

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Using App.Current.Host.Settings.MaxFrameRate and CompositionTarget.Rendering event we can create some interesting smoke effect.

Bassically we start out with .fx file and compiles into .ps which then gets loaded into Silverlight 3 as ShadderEffect and can be used in Blend.

ShadderEffect originates from compiling HLSL (.fx) is the High Level Shading Language for DirectX into .ps that Silverlight or WPF can use and apply to any UIElement.

This bring incredible power to image manipulation and also creating cool transition and animation.

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!