Many of you in the Microsoft .NET Framework world are familiar with XAML. XAML is an XM-based language for working with objects. It has been used extensively in developing UIs in Silverlight, Windows ...

With each iteration of the Windows Phone OS, it's getting nearer to converging with the Windows desktop OS (Windows 8.x). The most recent Windows Phone update includes support for universal ...

In the previous article, I walked through the basics of using Visual Studio to easily create a UI using some drag-and-drop controls that set up the front end of the UI. From there, we took the XAML ...

I'm trying to draw a circle with flat spots on the top and bottom, and am trying to do it by putting a rectangle opacity mask on top of a circle, but can't seem to get the opacity mask to do ...

Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA (rich Internet application) and AJAX frameworks, Silverlight arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 (see my ...

In modern software development, a hybrid app is a native application for the respective operating system in which web interfaces with HTML and CSS are embedded. The native framework application can ...