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• Silverlight 1.0 for Total Novices

  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... Posted Feb 18 2008, 10:38 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Silverlight 1.0

• Tip of the Day: Programming with Media in 1.0

  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... Posted Feb 10 2008, 12:15 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Hypervideo, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources

• Free Silverlight Seminar in Dallas Texas Feb 18, 2008

  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... Posted Feb 06 2008, 09:08 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources

• Webcast Follow-up - CreateFromXAML

  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... Posted Feb 06 2008, 06:27 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, JavaScript, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources

• Adam Kinney's Too Great To Miss Tutorial on Making a Chart In 1.0

  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... Posted Feb 05 2008, 05:49 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, JavaScript, Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources, JSON

• Did You Know... How to create XAML objects in Javascript?

  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... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, JavaScript, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Did You Know That... The Code Behind is Just... Code?

  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... Posted Feb 03 2008, 01:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, JavaScript, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Feedback

• My Last Pre-Mix Web Cast: Feb 6: Dynamic S.L. 1.0 Apps w/ CreateFromXAML

  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... Posted Feb 01 2008, 11:05 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0

• Silverlight For Novices - Web Cast Follow Up

  Thank you for joining me in the Webcast Silverlight For Total Novices. If you were unable to attend, 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 mentioned that... Posted Jan 30 2008, 02:51 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources

• Did You Know... You Can Create A Silverlight Streaming Application in Minutes?

  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... Posted Jan 27 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight streaming, Learning Silverlight, JavaScript, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Did You Know... There are 3 Versions of Keyframe Animation?

  Despite the fact that my animations showed up on my blog when I wrote this they are not showing up now. I'll repost this on Geeks With Blogs and post a link here in just a moment. This is, as you may have guessed, the follow up to the previous Tip... Posted Jan 25 2008, 11:46 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight streaming, Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Animation, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Did You Know... There Are Four Basic Animation Mechanisms?

  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... Posted Jan 21 2008, 10:31 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Did You Know That... There Is More Every Day To Help You Get Started?

  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... Posted Jan 20 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources

• Did You Know That... You can create vertical or horizontal linear gradients?

  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... Posted Jan 18 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: XAML, Learning Silverlight, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Silverlight For Total Novices

  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... Posted Jan 17 2008, 12:33 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Silverlight 1.0