“You Really Should Be Using NuGet” and other links…
This article by Justin Etheredge shows that NuGet has a graphical and a command-line interface.
“Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight”
Davy Brion: “The first thing you might be thinking is ‘how can Silverlight score so badly when it comes to User Experience?’. The answer to that is quite simple: if your users aren’t using a desktop/laptop with Windows or OS X on it, there is no experience to be had at all. Users that require assistive technology are out of luck as well since accessibility support in Silverlight is still very poor. If you hold those factors into account, it really doesn’t matter much that you can easily make Silverlight applications incredibly flashy (pardon the pun). Besides, most people get bored and annoyed with excessive animations rather quickly, so you're often better off not to overdo it. With that in mind, jQuery UI and HTML5 will easily meet your needs for that kind of stuff.”
“Lightweight DataTable for your Silverlight applications”
Vladimir Enchev: “Since there is no DataTable in Silverlight I’ve created small class that can be used to generate columns and rows in runtime in similar to the real DataTable…”
An Oldie Classic: “Silverlight 4 Screencasts—the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)”
Mike Taulty: “One of the interesting things about Silverlight 4 is the inclusion of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and I think it really helps to build the case for Silverlight 4 as a great platform for business applications. …Silverlight applications are rich internet applications – the deployment model is strongly angled towards web deployment as the only way to install a Silverlight application is to start on a web page and run the application - the deployment is intended to be simple, quick and secure.”
“Expression Gallery: Download Useful Bits, Share Yours with the Community”
“Many of our website visitors haven’t discovered the Expression Gallery yet. We provide a one-stop place for community members to download and share Expression-related items, like Blend Behaviors, Website Templates and Code Snippets, Silverlight Samples and Themes, and free and trial versions of Tools and Utilities.”
“Authentication in Silverlight using WCF and ASP.NET Membership Provider”
Mahesh Sabnis: “Open the web.config file, add the connection string for the database which contains user credentials and also define ASP.NET membership provider. Configure this provider in the service behavior so while verifying, the caller WCF service will load this membership provider. Also use ‘CustomBinding’ with https transport and define its ‘authenticationMode’ to ‘UserNameOverTransport’ so that the caller has to send the user credentials for making a call to WCF service.”
“Working with the Silverlight Rich Text Box control”
“In this article, we’ll take a look at the Silverlight Rich Text Box control. The Rich Text Box was one of the new, and highly requested controls introduced in Silverlight 4. …The Rich Text Box has a content property, Blocks, which is a collection of Paragraph elements (Paragraph derives from Block). These Paragraph elements can in turn contain elements that are derived from Inline, like Run (we know that one from the regular Text Box), Span, Bold, Italic, Underline, Hyperlink and the InlineUIContainer (which can contain UIElements).”