Along with using the out of the box Grid, StackPanel, Canvas etc. in Silverlight 2 you could create your own custom panel types to perform arbitrary layout. With Silverlight 3 you can combine custom panels together with the PlaneProjection to layout elements in 3D space. I’ll show you how. First, having 3D elements jump from position to position is incredibly disconcerting. Its difficult to track the objects and so destroys the 3D illusion being created. AnimatingProjectionPanelBase is the ... [Read more]

A few people have mentioned that Silverlight 3 still does not have print screen functionality. Here at Dot Net Solutions we don’t mourn this missing feature – no we revel in the opportunity. Silverlight 3 does now have a save file feature and this enables you to create far better solutions: You can create MS Office documents on the client – either from scratch or from a template. MS Office documents (.docx, .pptx, .xslx) are zip files with xml (document structure, text etc.) and binary (em ... [Read more]