When trying to access remote content in Silverlight, you need to add a clientaccespolicy.xml file to the root of the web server that you are trying to access.  I did this, my file looked like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <access-policy> <cross-domain-access> <policy> <allow-from http-request-headers="*"> <domain uri="*"/> </allow-from> <grant-to> <resource include-subpaths="true" path="/"/> </grant-to> <... [More]

My previous post talks about learning some Silverlight and going through some of ScottGu's articles about getting started with Silverlight.  As I have been trundling through then I have started to notice one thing that is getting particularly irritating. When you're styling up your application, you need to be very careful about typing the Setter properties correctly.  I admit, I am using Visual Studio and not Expression <insert useful variant here>, but I would still expect a little more intelligence or when editing the XAML. Let me explain... Consider the following XAML from my App.x... [More]

I found myself with a little time between BizTalk Server tasks recently and decided it was high time I took a look at trying out Silverlight and seeing what it is worth.  It's still early days for me at the moment, but I thought I would share my starting point. I was lucky enough to find a series of posts buy Scott Guthrie that give a good 8-step tutorial on building a Silverlight application in Visual Studio 2008. I've really only just started and am taking the time to read some surrounding content on the web about each step, but I have to say that it looks quite impressive so far (as I thi... [More]