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• On Learning New Technology – Controls Toolkit & Examples

  I had a great PDC.  I arrived with a schedule filled with sessions I intended to go to, and (shhhhh!) I skipped them all (except, ScottGu’s keynote and Scott Hanselman’s BabySmash both of which were (predictably) great).  The reason I... Posted Nov 01 2008, 02:34 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Controls, XAML, Tools, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Files, Control Toolkit

• So Much Technology – So Little Time

  We have, I think, officially passed the point where anyone can keep up with the new technology available for developers, just from Microsoft (let alone all the new options from all the other companies), and PDC is les than a week away. A  totally... Posted Oct 23 2008, 11:21 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Opinion, Building Apps, Observations

• Silverlight Controls, Controls Team, and Testing

  This blog will rarely be the place for breaking news, but there are two related pieces of information I want to ensure you know about at the risk of repeating news that has been blogged by others.  First, Shawn Burke’s team has announced their intention... Posted Oct 04 2008, 07:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Custom Controls, RC0

• Template Browser – an indispensible tool

  One way that many developers like to create styles and templates for controls is to modify the existing styles and templates. An unusual feature of Silverlight is that every control in the toolbox is lookless – its appearance is determined by its own... Posted Oct 03 2008, 12:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Templates, Custom Controls, RC0

• 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

• New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

  I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code.   This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding... Posted Jul 30 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Data Binding, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• Styles and Templates - Three Videos

  I’m very pleased to announce a three part video series (currently listed in reverse order) as companions to my new tutorial ). The three videos are Creating Styles Templates without Visual State Manager Templates and Visual State Manager   The new... Posted Jul 11 2008, 09:11 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Templates - VSM

• Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation

  I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them Silverlight.net Getting Started Page Learn Page Silverlight Microblog Scott Guthries’s blog entry on... Posted Jun 25 2008, 03:03 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• 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