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• Canonical Q&A

  Every day I get about 10-30 questions that I answer with a stock response (sorry) that says something like Hello and thank you for writing. I would encourage you to post your question in the Silverlight Forums . Be sure to include: * which version of... Posted Jul 13 2008, 01:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Features, Recommended Resources

• BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

  Apparently Radio 1's Big Weekend is a big thing in England, and to launch the festivities they've made The Big Zoomy Photo Thing a central piece of the action (as you may guess, this is Silverlight/Zoom incognito). (picture cropped to save room... Posted May 10 2008, 09:54 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Zoom

• Will Silverlight Controls Become More WPF Like - A Personal Opinion

  I was told when I joined Microsoft that I no longer had personal opinions about matters having to do with Microsoft software, and certainly not about Silverlight. As a "Blue Badge" I'm just exposed to too much confidential information to... Posted Mar 22 2008, 06:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• More on Routing and Bubbling

  One of the readers of my earlier post on routing and bubbling was left confused about when events are bubbled and when they are not. The documentation is clearer about this in some places than in others. For example, the Mouse events documentation has... Posted Mar 21 2008, 10:04 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Programmer insanity, Feedback, Random Ramblings

• Tip of the Day - Binding to a Collection

  The Tip of the Day doesn't usually carry on a related series of postings, but data binding is so important that I'm making an exception this weekend. Yesterday we looked at laying out a form using a grid holding a DataGrid and a second grid to... Posted Mar 16 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Data Binding

• Tip of the Day: How To Answer: Will This Work In Silverlight 2.0?

  I'm beginning to receive a lot of email about what is coming in Silverlight 2.0. Today's was pretty typical, so I thought I'd post the questions and answers (without revealing anything specific about this writer's application), as a guide... Posted Feb 14 2008, 09:20 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources

• Did You Know That... you can create Silverlight objects programmatically?

  In both Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2.0 it is possible to create . objects programmatically, in the former using JavaScript and in the latter using, for example, C#. Creating objects programmatically in Silverlight 1.0 is nontrivial, as demonstrated... Posted Jan 07 2008, 10:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Features, Tools, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day

• Am I over-emphasizing 1.0?

  A developer wrote to me directly, and has given me permission to quote his email and my response. Since this is an issue I'm asked about every day, I will do so without editing, except (at his request) to mask his identity: First, thank you much for... Posted Nov 16 2007, 09:46 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Features

• Should I commit to Silverlight 1.1 or Flex?

  I recently received the following email (abridged and identity disguised) -----Original Message----- Importance: High The other side (FLEX) is developing very sophisticated apps. I mean for example Buzzword or Sliderocket.... My question: Will the Silverlight... Posted Oct 12 2007, 11:50 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Features