First Floor Software Labs: exploring the Silverlight technology. First Floor Software puts a lot of effort in researching the Silverlight technology. This page references a number of articles, projects and prototypes we have been working on in the past. Feel free to look around, and use the available source code as you see fit.
Silverlight updates are released frequently and it's easy to get lost in the shear amount of new features that appear in the various updates. The following lists provides a convenient way to inspect the *exact* differences between the various Silverlight releases. read more »
This article demonstrates building a managed host in C# for the Silverlight plugin. The proposed solution uses the Silverlight COM interfaces to implement the hosting infrastructure. Full source code included. read more »
Demonstrates declarative animations in the page navigation framework of Silverlight 3 and above. read more »
A fully functional and lightweight image slideshow built using Silverlight 1.0 and 2. Smart image scaling, multiple themes, completely customizable, small footprint and available for free. read more »
Provides a peer-to-peer networking library for building Silverlight activities for Microsoft's Live Messenger. read more »
A series of blog posts about building declarative tweening animations in Silverlight 2. Although the proposed solution has been obsoleted with the built-in tweening animations of Silverlight 3, the choosen approach clearly demonstrates the power of attached dependency properties. read more »
