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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... Posted Jun 26 2008, 11:38 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Beta 2

• New Live Presentation Series – Starts 6/25

  I am pleased to announce a new series, blending Conference-quality presentations delivered through Live Meeting via the Live From Redmond Series. Audience, Goal and Purpose Each presentation will provide a thorough overview of a Silverlight 2 topic with... Posted Jun 18 2008, 08:02 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Digging Deeper, Beta 2

• Who Ate My Mouse Down Event??

  Before I leave, I want to squeeze in one quick note about a problem a lot of folks are running into as they upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I’ll come back to this in more detail when I get back, but here it is in a nutshell. A breaking change in the Beta... Posted Jun 12 2008, 10:54 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Beta 2

• 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... Posted Jun 08 2008, 11:52 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Beta 2

• Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF

  I’m pleased to announce that the following tutorials are now updated for Beta 2 and available for immediate download (but only the PDF versions and the code have been updated so far, the HTML versions are not yet updated) 1 Creating Applications With... Posted Jun 06 2008, 10:07 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, Beta 2

• Popup Control

  Beta 2 includes a wealth of new controls including the Popup (that is new, right? It’s not that I just didn’t notice it before?). I received an email today asking if I’d do a short How Do I video on creating a Popup and I certainly will, but here is a... Posted Jun 06 2008, 11:32 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Beta 2, Controls and Events

• Beta 2 Month

  Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s , one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls. This is so exciting, and so important, that my plan is to make it a central... Posted Jun 04 2008, 07:28 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Webcast, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Blend For Programmers, Beta 2, Visual State Manager

• Beta 2 Event Bubbling

  There are many great changes in Beta 2, and some are designed to make Silverlight more like WPF. One side effect of this is that event bubbling has changed just a bit and that bit breaks some of the examples I love to use. In Beta 1, the distinction was... Posted Jun 03 2008, 03:57 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Beta 2, Controls and Events