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An implementation of the View Model Style pattern to create a simple Silverlight 4 File Manager

An example of an easy to use MVVM Modal Popup and Silverlight Value Converter

In Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, using a Canvas or a single-cell Grid seems very similar. The difference is in how the container appears to the rest of the layout system. Canvas doesn’t participate in layout, so you can use it whenever you need to transcend layout.

The Silverlight Media Framework is an extensible and scalable video framework upon which you can create your own player experiences. We’ll walk you through a custom player project that displays suggested videos for further viewing after the current video ends.

Josh Twist explains the unique challenges developers face in securing Silverlight applications. He shows where to focus your efforts, concentrating on the key aspects of authentication and authorization.

The demo application is a Silverlight YouTube Jukebox which allows users to select artists, view their albums, select an album, and view the album's tracks. Users can right click on any track name and select to view the track details. By selecting a track (left click), users initiate a search for a YouTube video. Up to four possible matches are presented to the user as thumb images; the video title appears as the user mouses over the image. The user can then click on any of the images to view the YouTube video.

A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads

This is part 2 to the article Simplified MVVM: Silverlight 4 Video Player. That article focused on the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern, and how it supports Designer / Developer collaboration and workflow. However, when others tried to use that project for a real website, they found they needed the full set of controls that a video player normally provides. I decided to use this as an opportunity to dig deeper into "Simplified" MVVM and demonstrate how easy it truly is, when using Microsoft Expression Blend 4 (or higher).

This article demonstrates a small, generic and reusable infrastructure for running tasks asynchronously and allowing them to update their progress dialogs in a simple way. This solution is for Silverlight but can be used with Winforms or WPF with a very small change.

This project demonstrates an implementation of the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern to create a fully "Designable" Silverlight Video Player. This is not to be confused with a "Skinable" Video Player. A Skinable Video Player allows you to change the look and feel of the buttons that control the player. A Designable player allows a Designer to use ANY set of controls to implement the Video Player.