From my last article on Silverlight we have seen that the Silverlight is meant for both Developer and Designers at bit differently from each-other.

A Developer needs following

Set up an IDE
An Editor to create an XAML and managed code
Moreover, SDK

A designer needs to install some designer tools and a development environment which work with XAML.
How to Set Development Environment
To go with the following I advice you to go first with following link : http://www.silverlight.net/GetStarted

Following are the steps direct how to Set up the Environment?

Install Visual Studio 2008 with Visual …

Silverlight: A Step Ahead Series

Introduction:

Microsoft introduced Rich Internet Application with the introduction of Silverlight which is a very lightweight and a client-side application.

Scope of article:

The scope of article is just tell the idea about “What is Silverlight?” The advance tiopics like implementation details etc is not covered or in the scope of this article.

Definition

In simple words Silverlight is a Client-framework having cross-browser, cross-platform ability developed by MicroSoft, which provides Designers and developers to develop Rich Internet Applications [RIA] to embed into web applications.

Silverlight Framework

Silverlight Framework is a combination of …

Show or Hide combobox at Runtime using JavaScript
Many a times in the programming world we feel the need to hide or show the drop1down lists or combo boxes of the particular page or a div or anyother control so here is a small snippet
The Following is the JavaScript function to achieve the above you can embede it in any external JavaScript file or write as an inline script or include in the head section…
function showOrHideAlldrop1Downs(newState)
{
var elements = document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName(’select’);
…