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• Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

  I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:50 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Community

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• Multi-Page Applications in Silverlight

  I wanted to build a multi-page (Search - Results) application when I realized that isn't really our model. Fortunately, I wrote to Ashish Shetty , who combines enormous knowledge with enormous kindness, and even though he is in the middle of blogging... Posted May 31 2008, 10:40 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper

• In Silverlight, Tags are just strings...

  Tim Binkley-Jones sent in a Tip of the Day that custom attached properties make a superior choice to Tags because, in Silverlight, Tags can only be strings . This is not what I've been saying, but he is right; I was wrong. He provides this excellent... Posted May 19 2008, 01:49 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Errata

• Converting it to VB

  Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim isVisible As Nullable... Posted May 18 2008, 09:15 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Tools, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Managed Code

• Blend, VS, Events and C#

  From now until the summer I'll be working on videos , tutorials , presentations and blogging, but I'll also be writing Programming Silverlight 2 with Tim Heuer . Rather than convincing you that I'm continually hawking my book, I'd rather... Posted May 18 2008, 08:56 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Managed Code

• Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back To You

  Aha! Okay, I may not fully understand all the requirements, but the following demo will show how to dynamically create a user control and then have that user control close itself, remove itself from the containing page and fire an event to the page so... Posted May 07 2008, 05:17 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper

• Dynamically creating and destroying containers

  Ben H. asked a question within a comment to a previous blog post. Suppose, there is a button on the main form and when the user clicks on the button, a new container gets instantiated and the new container appears on the top of the main form. However... Posted May 07 2008, 01:33 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper