Silverlight 4 Unleashed sample code

• Chapter 1 - Three Years of Silverlight
• Chapter 2 - Setting Up and Discovering Your Environment
• Chapter 3 - Extending Your Application with Controls
• Chapter 4 - Investigating Existing Controls
• Chapter 5 - Understanding Dependency Properties
• Chapter 6 - Working with data: Binding, grouping, sorting and filtering
• Chapter 7 - Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
• Chapter 8 - Using Data Controls
• Chapter 9 - Connecting to the Web
• Chapter 10 - Creating resources, styles and templates
• Chapter 11 - Mastering Expression Blend
• Chapter 12 - Sketching the User Experience
• Chapter 13 - Creating Line-of-Business Applications
• Chapter 14 - Enhancing Line-of-Business Applications and Running Out of the Browser
• Chapter 15 - Developing Navigation Applications and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7
• Chapter 16 - Using Effects and Recording Media
• Chapter 17 - New Transforms, Right Click, HTML Browser, WebBrowserBrush and Isolated Storage
• Chapter 18 - Drag and Drop, Full Screen, Clipboard, COM Interop, Duplex Polling, Notification Windows and Splash Screens
• Chapter 19 - Authentication, Event to Command Binding, Random Animations, Multitouch, Local Communication and Bing Maps Control
• Chapter 20 - Building Extensible and Maintainable Applications
• Chapter 21 - Optimizing Performance
• Chapter 22 - Advanced Development Techniques

Unblocking a Zip file

When a Zip file is downloaded from a 3rd party website, it may be necessary to unblock it (this is true on Windows 7 at least). To do this, follow the steps:

• Locate the Zip file that you just downloaded.
• Right click and select “Properties”
• In the Properties window, select the General tab and check if a button labeled Unblock is available.

• If that is the case, press it to unblock the file’s content.
• Right click the Zip file again and select Extract all.
• If this menu is not available on your current operating system, use a Zip application to extract the content.
• You can now access the content of the file without restrictions.

Not unblocking the file will restrict the permission that the file it contains will get. This may cause unwanted side effects.