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I received two emails today asking that I repost my recommendations on how to get started with Silverlight 1.0. Here you go.... The best way to get started is to go to the Silverlight site and click on Get Starged From there you can click on Get Started...
Shawn Wildermuth, theADOguy (who should really rename himself the Silverlight guy ) is giving a free seminar at the Microsoft office in Dallas on 2/18. Shawn is a very smart cool guy who knows a lot about a lot, and even more about Silverlight , so this...
Today's Webcast focused on factoring out repeated creation of objects in XAML (and their manipulation in the code behind) by creating objects dynamically using CreateFromXaml (This will be available for viewing as soon as the recording is processed...
Do not miss Adam Kinney's excellent tutorial on creating a bar chart in Silverlight 1.0; it is brilliant, and it is a great staring point on working with XAML, JavaScript, JSON data and many other interesting aspects of Silverlight . Also, while I...
I have had a very strong positive reaction to focusing on the Javascript in code behind for Silverlight 1.0, and so will devote not only today's Tip of the Day to a bit more on the topic, but will make sure that I do so on a frequent basis for a while...
A very insightful reader sent me email that I'm going to respond to here. To protect his identity let's call him Bob. I'm going to excerpt Bob's email and rephrase a bit so that this becomes a more general discussion. I find that a lot...
I will be giving my last pre-mix Webcast on Feb 6 (did i hear cheering??) on Feb 6 on the topic: "Building a dynamic Silverlight Application using a web service, the downloader and CreateFromXAML" -- you can read more about it and register for...
Thank you if you were able to join our Webcast Silverlight For Total Novices . (If you were unable to attend, please keep an eye on the events page for the Recording.) In the time we had, we could only scratch the surface, but a number of resources were...
Three are many details to creating a Silverlight Streaming application, but in this post I'm going to try to boil them down to a recipe for fast success. 1. Create an account for yourself on the Silverlight Wiidows Live (alpaha) site . 4GB hosting...
Silverlight offers you four ways to move an object from here to there From/To Animation Linear Key Frame Animation Discrete Key Frame Animation Spline Key Frame Animation From - To Animations (From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere...
We are in the process of reorganizing each of the pages on Silverlight.net to make them more useful and usable (though in some ways this is like painting the Brooklyn Bridge ; as soon as you're done, it is time to start over again!). One of our top...
By default, linear gradients are on a diagonal. Understanding this begins with the implicit assumption of a coordinate system superimposed on every shape in which the upper-left hand corner is set to 0,0, with the x axis extending to 1 at the right edge...
I received the following email today (edited slightly, to reflect the spirit of emails I get almost every day) Jesse, I would like to use Silverlight but I need an idiots guide... can you suggest how I might get started? Thanks for writing! The best way...
This tip is thanks to Adam Nathan and his excellent book Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed by Adam Nathan Read more about this title... You can achieve the startling effect of introducing sharp lines within a linear gradient by adding...
In today's Tip of the Day I wrote that Canvas's Height and Width properties default to zero. A reader wrote to me in email saying, Actually, unless it was implemented differently in Silverlight than in WPF (which I cannot exclude), the default...
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