Visibility property is a very powerful and yet often overlooked property available in both WPF and Silverlight. It enables you to set Visibility of certain UIElement objects to different states like: Visible, Collapsed and Hidden (not supported by Silverlight). This tutorial shows you how to use it and how to bind to Visibility property.

Command links have found their way around in Windows Vista and they are one of the key parts of the Windows 7 user interface as well. In this article I’ll show you how to create a command link control in Expression Blend 3 for use in your Silverlight 3 projects.New concept introduced with Blend 3 – Behaviors is being used.

This Silverlight tutorial (webcast) will show you how to use and customize ChildWindow object. ChildWindow can be used as a pop-up dialog or window in your Silverlight 3 applications. This webcast shows how to add, launch, change background overlay color and opacity and position your ChildWindow.

You can play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight 3 easily. Basically, since Silverlight 3 supports H.264 format you can create your own media player and play high definition video content directly from YouTube in your Silverlight application. Let me show you how you can do it…

Silverlight 3 is released. Once again, same questions appear: What tools and software do I need to start building Silverlight 3 solutions and experiences? Where to get all those tools and how to get started? In this short guide I am sharing with you all the resources you need to help you and get you started with Silverlight 3.

It is easy to create reflection effect in WPF using the Expression Blend – and in this tutorial I will show you how to achieve WPF / XAML reflection effect. Number of different controls can be used for this effect – images, controls like buttons or even video. In this tutorial, I will use simple image and create its reflection. Simple as that!

This part explains how to add application menu (Jewl / Orb) into WPF ribbon control. I am explaining how to add list of recent files, menu commands (including SplitButton type and cascading menu structure), separator as well as Exit and Options button in the application menu footer part.

I’ve been struggling for a while with this problem. I had Silverlight project with number of pages that I have designed and later I decided that I want to change to some other page to be the startup page when my projects starts. Solution is quite simple and neat so I wanted to share it with you.