As you probably already know, there are quite a few ways to pass data to a Silverlight application. Use InitParams in the Silverlight plugin declaration Read data off the querystring Use WebClient to request a value Interact with the HTML DOM to pull a value from the hosting page But what do you do if you don’t have control over the hosting page? Really, your only option is to make a call to a web server using WebClient. But even that...
As you may already know, we are merging Silverlight Contrib and Silverlight Extensions into one super-ultra-mega project. Last month, we held a poll to let the community decide the name of the consolidated project. Which played out in the following way: So it’s a no-brainer, obviously the community wants to keep the Silverlight Extensions name moving forward (and we will). In the next few months, both teams will be working to consolidate the code bases into a single code base. This will take some time, but moving forward, it will make for...