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• Silverlight Tutorials Now In Japanese

  I’m very pleased to announce that the Silverlight Tutorials are now available in Japanese with more on the way soon.  (All tutorials in VB and C# soon as well)   -Jesse...( read more ) Posted Aug 27 2008, 09:02 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Tutorials

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More

  In what may be a first (at least for me) I've secured agreement with the very generous folks I work for here and at O'Reilly  to loosely join the tutorials and the chapters of our forthcoming book Programming Silverlight (co-authored by Tim... Posted May 07 2008, 11:12 AM by Blogs Filed under: Tools, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Tutorials

• 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

• 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

• 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