There is really nice WPF pixel Shader Library in codeplex (http://wpffx.codeplex.com/) that can be used in Silverlight 3. See the demo below for the list of following effects in action: Banded Swirl Effect, Bloom Effect, Bright Extract Effect, Color Tone Effect, Contrast Adjust Effect, Directional Blur Effect, Gloom Effect, Growable Poisson Disk Effect, Invert Color Effect, Light Streak Effect, Magnify Effect, Monochrome Effect, Pinch Effect, Pixelate Effect, Ripple Effect, Sharpen Effect, Smooth Magnify Effect, Swirl Effect, Tone Mapping Effect, Toon Shader Effect and Zoom Blur Effect.

My favorite is Zoom Blur Effect. What's yours?

Threadpool allows you to spawn multiple background thread allowing you to process for in this example to allow multiple images to be downloaded.

You can apply this simple but very poweful example to spawn worker threads to perform time consuming executions.

We will look at how to stream xml file from URL and display to simple textbox. Description seems to be simple and trivial but doing it right take little work.

HelloWorld Silverlight Application.

I am trying to trackback links to my previousl Silverlight blogs.

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.

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 )

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 :)