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• Breaking Changes between Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2

  In addition to breaking changes between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 release, there were some breaking changes that will effect Silverlight 1.0 applications when Silverlight 2 auto-updates user's computers. Note that the breaking changes listed... Posted Oct 13 2008, 05:08 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Silverlight 1.0, silverlight 2, Breaking Changes

• 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

• Silverlight 1.0 for Total Novices

  I received two emails today asking that I repost my recommendations on how to get started with Silverlight 1.0. Here you go.... The best way to get started is to go to the Silverlight site and click on Get Starged From there you can click on Get Started... Posted Feb 18 2008, 10:38 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Silverlight 1.0

• Tip of the Day - Popfly

  Mix is fast upon us, and to be perfectly honest, I'm preparing frantically. That means that I've been behind in my Tip of the Day. Rather than closing it down, I want to take the three weeks between now and Mix and really focus on some areas of... Posted Feb 12 2008, 02:17 PM by Blogs Filed under: Popfly, Tools, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• 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

• Tips of the Day: Setting properties in custom controls in 1.0

  Got a nice international email today that said in part... ...things get more interesting it is a common scenario to write custom controls....I need to specify the parameters in code behind. Can I create custom xaml tags which are connected to the code... Posted Feb 05 2008, 02:09 PM by Blogs Filed under: JavaScript, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Did You Know... How to create XAML objects in Javascript?

  I have had a very strong positive reaction to focusing on the Javascript in code behind for Silverlight 1.0, and so will devote not only today's Tip of the Day to a bit more on the topic, but will make sure that I do so on a frequent basis for a while... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, JavaScript, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Did You Know That... The Code Behind is Just... Code?

  A very insightful reader sent me email that I'm going to respond to here. To protect his identity let's call him Bob. I'm going to excerpt Bob's email and rephrase a bit so that this becomes a more general discussion. I find that a lot... Posted Feb 03 2008, 01:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, JavaScript, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Feedback

• My Last Pre-Mix Web Cast: Feb 6: Dynamic S.L. 1.0 Apps w/ CreateFromXAML

  I will be giving my last pre-mix Webcast on Feb 6 (did i hear cheering??) on Feb 6 on the topic: "Building a dynamic Silverlight Application using a web service, the downloader and CreateFromXAML" -- you can read more about it and register for... Posted Feb 01 2008, 11:05 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0

• Download Error Code 4001?

  If you are testing your code, or going to other pages with Silverlight running and seeing this error:   It is not your fault! This is the result of a recently discovered bug that we know how to fix. We are working hard to get that fix out so that... Posted Jan 31 2008, 05:58 PM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight 1.0, Bugs and Error Codes

• 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... You Can Create A Silverlight Streaming Application in Minutes?

  Three are many details to creating a Silverlight Streaming application, but in this post I'm going to try to boil them down to a recipe for fast success. 1. Create an account for yourself on the Silverlight Wiidows Live (alpaha) site . 4GB hosting... Posted Jan 27 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight streaming, Learning Silverlight, JavaScript, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day