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There are limitations for calling web services over HTTPS in Beta 2. Here, we look at what we can do with respect to calling web services over HTTPS.

How to call web services using the Windows Communication Foundation capabilities of Silverlight.

A Silverlight application from one web-site needs some thought if it is going to call services offered from another web site.

 

If you are looking to do an HTTP request at a lower level then HttpWebRequest is the class that you're looking for. Here, we take a look at doing an HTTP POST from a Silverlight application using this class.

The WebClient class provides a mechanism for performing an asynchronous POST from a Silverlight application. Here, we take a quick look.

Make sure that your Silverlight application gets onto the screen fast by leaving the larger assets on the server and downloading them asynchronously whilst the application runs.

Silverlight gives us a number of options as to where and how we package resources for the application such as images. Here we look at building resources into your DLLs, XAPs and fall-back to the site of origin.

A look at the properties that we can manipulate on Storyboards built in XAML and also how we can control those from code and build Storyboards from code.

The simplest kind of custom control we can build is a UserControl which aggregates together existing controls to form a reusable unit. Here, we take a look at how we can do that in Silverlight.

Templating allows us to change the entire look and feel of a control. Here, we take a quick look at getting started with templating by altering the template of a Button.