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• 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

• 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

• 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... Posted May 31 2008, 09:12 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Tools, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Digging Deeper

• User Controls: Tutorial

  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... Posted Apr 25 2008, 11:56 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Tutorials

• 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... Posted Apr 19 2008, 03:01 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, How Do I Videos

• 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... Posted Apr 04 2008, 09:37 AM by Blogs Filed under: LINQ, Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, Data Binding

• 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... Posted Apr 02 2008, 11:01 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Feedback, Tutorials, How Do I Videos

• 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... Posted Mar 24 2008, 10:18 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Feedback, Random Ramblings, Tutorials, How Do I Videos

• 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... Posted Mar 06 2008, 02:45 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Random Ramblings, Tutorials

• 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... Posted Mar 06 2008, 01:44 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Tutorials