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Clearly one thing that social networking is about is exploring the limits on what you want to share and what other people might be interested in. There is, I'm sure, at least one sociology paper (and two reports to the D.A.) in this theme... Different...
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...
Mix is fast upon us, and to be perfectly honest, I'm preparing frantically. That means that I've been behind in my Tip of the Day. Rather than closing it down, I want to take the three weeks between now and Mix and really focus on some areas of...
A user posted a comment in response to one of our videos (did you know you can do that now??) I thought others might want the answer as well.... This quick start on media may be a good next step. There are a number of How Do I videos on using media. I'd...
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...
Got a nice international email today that said in part... ...things get more interesting it is a common scenario to write custom controls....I need to specify the parameters in code behind. Can I create custom xaml tags which are connected to the code...
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...
If you are testing your code, or going to other pages with Silverlight running and seeing this error: It is not your fault! This is the result of a recently discovered bug that we know how to fix. We are working hard to get that fix out so that...
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...
I must admit that I was at first skeptical about books on Silverlight 1.0 Programming for a number of reasons: Silverlight 1.0 is not all that "deep" - there isn't that much to cover The online documentation and supplemental information...
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