Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), part of the .NET Framework, provides the first unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications. It enables the development of secure, reliable, transacted services that interoperate with current Microsoft investments and non-Microsoft platforms.
With the .NET Framework 3.5 release, WCF added support for building REST style services. REST, an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia driven applications, involves building resource-oriented services by defining resources that implement uniform interfaces using standard HTTP …

In Silverlight 3, Microsoft allows us to sending data between local Silverlight-based applications through defined channel. To use this feature we’ll apply the classes in namespace System.Windows.Messaging. In next example I would like to illustrate how we can build this local channel.
1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio and create a Silverlight application. Let’s VS create a web project to test our Silverlight application too. I name the Silverlight application as “Data Sender” and the web project …

During my development I need to implement the drag and drop feature in Silverlight. It’s pretty easy to make this feature work in Windows Form but it’s not simple to enable this feature on control in Silverlight. Therefore the developer team of Silverlight has developed a Silverlight toolkit to help us to alleviate our work. The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. …

The routed event was first introduced in WPF. It allows us to handle the event through a tree of elements in WPF application. The routed event can be understood as functional or implementation definition.
- Functional definition: A routed event is a type of event that can invoke handlers on multiple listeners in an element tree, rather than just on the object that raised the event.
- Implementation definition: A routed event is a CLR event that …

As you can see, there are two changes at my site in last days. I added a new page called “My Silverlight” and add a new banner of Bluehost. I am learning now Silverlight so I would like to publish my applications too. My applications are not so complicated applications. They are just simple and operate simple calculations but they help me a lot when starting to learn Silverlight.
At the beginning I thought of some …