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• Share Everything...

  Clearly one thing that social networking is about is exploring the limits on what you want to share and what other people might be interested in. There is, I'm sure, at least one sociology paper (and two reports to the D.A.) in this theme... Different... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:58 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources, Programmer insanity

• 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

• 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 That... There are excellent books on Silverlight 1.0 Programming

  I must admit that I was at first skeptical about books on Silverlight 1.0 Programming for a number of reasons: Silverlight 1.0 is not all that "deep" - there isn't that much to cover The online documentation and supplemental information... Posted Jan 23 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources

• 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 get sharp lines within a linear gradient?

  This tip is thanks to Adam Nathan and his excellent book Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed by Adam Nathan Read more about this title... You can achieve the startling effect of introducing sharp lines within a linear gradient by adding... Posted Jan 14 2008, 10:55 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources

• Drag And Drop put to work

  I received a quick thank you note from Cal Schrotenboer recently about my video on drag and drop , noting that he had incorporated it into his CodeProject article describing his Silverlight application I took a look at his extraordinary article (and his... Posted Dec 31 2007, 10:36 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources