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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...
What is coming in the next few weeks?
A couple readers of my blog and folks eager to learn more about Silverlight 2 have written to me asking for 2 things: 1. Tutorials and Videos on the specific topics of interest to them (great, keep 'em coming) and 2. Greater transparency in my schedule...
Tutorial: Data From a SQL DB via WCF (using LINQ)
My 4th tutorial Displaying SQL Database Data in a DataGrid using LINQ and WCF is now available, as is the source code and a version of the tutorial in PDF For the moment, I recommend the PDF version as the images are clearer. We're fixing up the HTML...
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...
What I'm Thinking About April
I've been getting a lot of mail on the lines of "When will we have Beta 2?" or "what is the release date for Silverlight" and since I can't answer those questions, and since I know that folks need to plan, I thought I'd...
Silverlight 2 Tutorials - Source Code
"Why are you showing images of the source - I can't copy and paste!" I've received a number of emails asking this question and I have a number of answers <smile> After a lot of experimentation, I'm convinced that images of...
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...