The Tutor.com Classroom: How-To tips from the field

These How-To tips are taken from The Tutor.com Classroom: Architecture and techniques using Silverlight, WPF, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

You can check out the Silverlight Tutor.com Classroom in "practice" mode, although the real experience is with a live tutor on the other side!

Tutor.com’s online learning system, the Tutor.com Classroom, utilizes many of the advanced capabilities of the Microsoft .NET 3.5 platform, including TCP/IP sockets and WPF, in addition to making full use of the Silverlight browser plug-in. The next set of blog postings show solutions to some of the more interesting problems and how the potential of .NET was employed.

• Share code between Silverlight and WPF applications


• Enforce an MVC-style architecture


• Connect to a TCP/IP Listener


• Specify “End-Of-Message” to a TCP/IP Listener


• Provide automatic reader-to-writer lock upgrade


• Create a horizontal WrapPanel that is transform-aware and exposes row and column counts


• Screen-scrape an application via Win32 PrintWindow() API


• Trap and process mouse movement in an InkPresenter


• Create a Path object from a Stroke


• Manually install and detect for the Silverlight plug-in


• Build a Silverlight ToolbarButton user control