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One Man’s Guide To Silverlight Nirvana
Every day (honest) I am asked for a path through the learning material, even though the Getting Started page offers an explicit path. And that is not surprising. We all have our own way of learning. Here is the path that I personally tend to suggest to...
What is coming soon?
You have noticed, I’m sure, that there has been a flurry of blogging, videos and more since the release of Beta 2. That is all goodness, though it can be hard to know where to start; and the road map will differ depending on where you are in your experience...
Creating a Project from xaml and xaml.cs files
I posted the code for the PageSwitcher app described in a previous blog post , but to save space and to make the download faster, I didn't include anything but the code (no solution or project files). A reader wrote asking how to create a project...
The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More
In what may be a first (at least for me) I've secured agreement with the very generous folks I work for here and at O'Reilly  to loosely join the tutorials and the chapters of our forthcoming book Programming Silverlight (co-authored by Tim...
User Controls: Tutorial Available
A quick announcement and some words of thanks. I'm pleased to say that Tutorial #5: Keyboard Input and User Controls is now available for reading on line or as a PDF. The thanks go first to Karen Corby whose amazing presentation at Mix I shamelessly...
How Accurate are Our Tutorials and Videos?
A reader wrote to me today saying ( paraphrased ) ...let you know that the PDF version of the Data Binding tutorial identifies itself as tutorial #3 when it should be #2. As result of past experiences with Microsoft I tend to take such things as a sign...
LINQ To SQL
A number of folk have written to me in response to my 3rd tutorial asking that I spend some time focusing on how to obtain data from a SQL database. This is the topic for tutorial #4, to be released on April 1. A few interesting issues arose when writing...
Tip of the Day: Tutorial Image Distortion and what You and I can Do
Some of the images in the Silverlight 2 Tutorials are not what you or I would hope for.  There is no excuse, but there is an explanation and a work around, and a fix going forward. The explanation It was very important to me to use the latest possible...