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• Becoming a Silverlight Programmer

  I received a wonderful and very kind email from saleh alabbas who asked this canonical question: "imagine you have good knowledge in C#, what plan you would draw for yourself to become an expert in developing web and Silverlight applications?" I'm asked... Posted Nov 18 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Community

• My Favorite Utilities…

  About twice a  year I try to publish a list of the utilities that I use all the time… not the ones I like in theory, but the ones that I use – that make programming or computing easier, faster, better.  Here's my list for the end of 2008. Programming... Posted Nov 02 2008, 12:45 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser

• Something New Coming – Pocket MFA

  My theory, based entirely on my own experience is that many developers would like to know just a bit more about design (not all developers, and not a lot more, just some developers, and just a bit more). Our reasons include: 1. The bar has been set higher... Posted Oct 16 2008, 10:15 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: user interface, Recommended Resources, Blend For Programmers, Community, Building Apps, Pocket MFA

• Silverlight 2 Release Guide

  As promised, Silverlight 2 is now not merely released, it is really and most sincerely released… If You Are A New Silverlight Programmer If you are taking this occasion to become a Silverlight programmer, welcome! Everything you need is here on the Get... Posted Oct 14 2008, 09:28 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Community, Observations, Breaking Change, RTM

• Silverlight 2 – The release candidate and next steps

  On Thursday night we published the first public release candidate for Silverlight 2, described in some detail by Scott Guthrie .  This is a developer-only release and you can learn all about what it is and how to get it in a terrific blog post by... Posted Sep 27 2008, 09:51 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Planning, release candidate

• What topics are important to you? Survey Results

  The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal Again, thank you for taking the time to respond to the survey , it was extremely helpful to me in planning the videos, tutorials and blog posts... Posted Sep 19 2008, 02:41 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Planning, Observations, Survey

• Liberty – Shill?

  Okay, I never thought this was an issue I was likely to face, but the folks in Marketing wanted to run this ad, and so I was faced with that interesting question of what we used to call “Selling Out.” (yeah, yeah, i work for Microsoft, so my radical friends... Posted Sep 12 2008, 05:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Blend For Programmers, Opinion, Community

• Pixellated – Podcast Radio Interview and Silverlight

  I had a great time discussing Silverlight with Craig Shoemaker on his PodCast Pixel8.   Craig is a terrific interviewer; well informed, passionate, smart, Microsoft MVP , ASP Insider, developer, podcaster, blogger, co-author of Beginning ASP... Posted Aug 29 2008, 02:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Podcast, Community

• Sparkling Client – Monthly Podcast Guest

  I’m very proud and excited to announce that I’ve been invited to be a monthly guest on the Sparkling Client Silverlight Podcast. Details to follow very soon, but our initial shows include a discussion of Templates on September 23rd and of Databinding... Posted Aug 27 2008, 07:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight

  Back in June I posted a blog entry on how to get started with Silverlight; it seems it is time to update that as the world changes very quickly and we have many new resources. Each of us has our own way of learning, but here is my suggested path through... Posted Aug 21 2008, 06:18 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Community

• Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

  When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and... Posted Aug 16 2008, 08:34 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Candidate for favorite new utility

  I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip... Posted Aug 14 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• 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

• One Team – 4 Books on ASP.NET 3.5

  I just released Learning ASP.NET 3.5 which is very exciting, through I must quickly and freely admit that my co-authors did a fantastic job shouldering the bulk of the task of the massive re-write to bring this book fully up to date for ASP.NET 3.5. The... Posted Jul 30 2008, 07:21 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Community

• Four Twitter Silverlight Blogs

  Because I’ve probably introduced more confusion than I have any right to, I’ll tell you quickly about 5 Twitter blogs I’m associated with… SilverlightNews – very popular and closely connected with one of the premier Silverlight aggregators: Silverlight... Posted Jul 27 2008, 02:09 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Ramblings, Community