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Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel Application

Silverlight 4 has the capability of accessing the COM object using the COM API. You can access any program installed in your PC using those APIs in Silverlight. You can open Notepad, Word, Excel or Outlook from Silverlight application. Here I will demonstrate you the step-by-step tutorial on opening an Microsoft Excel book followed by data sharing between the Silverlight application and the Excel Sheet.

Installing Out-of-Browser application silently in Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 now has support for installing out-of-browser application silently. In this article I will describe about it.

Step-by-Step Command Binding in Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 now came up with the support of Command Binding. Using Command binding you can easily develop your Silverlight MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) applications where your view will not know about data. In this article, I will describe you the Command binding feature in Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step.

What is Silverlight ?

Introduction to Silverlight and XAP.

In this article, I will introduce you to Silverlight and XAP (the file format that Silverlight applications use)

Silverlight 4.0 Features

This article describes the enhanced and new features of Silverlight 4.0

Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 installation

This article list down all the softwares needed to start Silverlight 4.0 development (and their download links).

Silverlight Load Process

This article describes the loading process for Silverlight Applications.

What is Silverlight? Part III

Part III / III series on What is Silverlight?

Silverlight 4: How to Customize OOB Window?

In this post, I will guide you to create a customize OOB Window in SIlverlight.

Silverlight 4 and MVVM pattern with ICommand

What is MVVM Pattern:

What's the Breaking changes in Silverlight 4 RC?

Microsoft has just released the Silverlight 4 RC with several changes in the Silverlight runtime & in the Silverlight tools. Though there are couple of changes since Silverlight 3 & since Silverlight 4 Beta but it supports most of the Silverlight 3 applications by using Quirks mode. In this post I will describe about those changes.

Silverlight 4: How to Capture Video from Default Webcam?

In this post I will demonstrate one of the new feature of Silver-light 4: “Accessing Default Webcam using Silver-light 4”.

OpenFileDialog in Silverlight

This article, describes how to use the OpenFileDialog in Silverlight

Silverlight Hosting

In this article, I will explain how the Silverlight application is hosted in HTML / ASPX page and the various parameters that can be passed in the "Object" tag of HTML page.

How to change the Foreground color from code behind

In this article, I will explain how to change the color i.e Foreground color of TextBlock in the code behind file or at run time.

How to use InitParams in Silverlight

Sometimes it is required to "feed" the application with initial parameters. This section describes how to pass intital data via HTML into a Silverlight application

What is Silverlight? Part II

Part II/III series on What is Silverlight?

Silverlight 4: How to use the all new Right Click Context Menu?

Silverlight 4 has now support for right click. You can now register the event “MouseRightButtonDown” & “MouseRightButtonUp” to any FrameworkElement. Hence, no need to use JavaScript to disable the right click option.

Silverlight 4: How to work with Notification API?

Silverlight Notification API is a new feature introduced in Silverlight 4 Beta 1. If you are developing your application using Silverlight & want to show some notification message like Outlook to the user, then you can use this. Remember that, this feature only works out of browser.

How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature?

Silverlight 3 came up with Out Of Browser support. Using that feature one can install the application just like a standalone windows application. Hence no need to open the browser to run the Silverlight application. Today for the first time I gone thru the APIs & created a sample application. Here I will discuss about the same to give you a demonstration.

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