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• 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

• Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

  When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and... Posted Aug 16 2008, 08:34 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Candidate for favorite new utility

  I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip... Posted Aug 14 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• 3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of my To-do List

  I’m pleased to announce we’ve posted three new videos: Graphics and Brushes (never hurts to “brush up” on the fundamentals and I try to bring together what we were doing in 1.0 with what Blend brings to the party. Using Multiple Pages Part 2 covers passing... Posted Aug 12 2008, 06:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos

• One of the most unusual books I’ve ever written

  I’m pleased to announce the release of what may be one of the most unusual books I’ve ever written, Programming .NET 3.5 Briefly, it was our theory; generated long before I started work at Microsoft, that while there was good reason to write what I call... Posted Jul 30 2008, 07:33 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Tools, Recommended Resources

• Camtasia Crash Tip Update

  Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I’ve been plagued by crashes, and it turns out that TechSmith, the wonderfully responsive folks who make the product... Posted Jul 28 2008, 10:17 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos

• Four Twitter Silverlight Blogs

  Because I’ve probably introduced more confusion than I have any right to, I’ll tell you quickly about 5 Twitter blogs I’m associated with… SilverlightNews – very popular and closely connected with one of the premier Silverlight aggregators: Silverlight... Posted Jul 27 2008, 02:09 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Ramblings, Community

• Camtasia Crash Tip

  [Updated 7/3] If you are using Camtasia (wonderful product) to create your screen captures and you do a lot of editing (especially zooms and call outs and cuts) you run the risk of overloading the project and causing Camtasia to slow and/or crash. Camtasia... Posted Jul 03 2008, 03:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos

• Want To Follow Silverlight MicroBlog?

  SilverlightShow is featuring a brilliant Twitter tool written by Emil Stoychev that you can download here – you can grab the HTML or you can download the source. If you just get the HTML and plop it into your blog you are free to tell it whom you want... Posted Jun 26 2008, 01:02 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources

• Detailed Overview of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Web Service Features

  As you have probably read already (in Scott or Tim's posts), Silverlight 2 Beta 2 provides a set of new and improved web service features. This post will go over our Beta 2 scenarions in more detail, and we intend to follow up over the next couple... Posted Jun 10 2008, 04:21 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, JSON, duplex, soap

• 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

• Xaml vs XAML

  I received an email from Ian Griffiths who informed me that the "Xaml spec refers to Xaml as Xaml , and not XAML ." because Rob Relyea didn't like the "shouty caps" look of all upper case. After some back and forth, I contacted... Posted May 28 2008, 09:54 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Learning Silverlight, Tools, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Random Ramblings

• Converting it to VB

  Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim isVisible As Nullable... Posted May 18 2008, 09:15 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Tools, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Managed Code

• My new favorite utility for .NET

  Before I say a word, let me tell you that Dave from Tangible Software has been sending me free copies of InstantVB and Instant C# for years and they posted a testimonial from me on their site. That is my only involvement with them, but there you have... Posted May 16 2008, 11:28 AM by Blogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources

• Expression Blend for Programmers

  I have set out on an integrated set of videos, tutorials and blog posts on the subject of using Expression Blend from the point of view of Silverlight 2 Programmers.  To get things going, I created a 3 part video series based on ScottGu's extended... Posted May 16 2008, 09:17 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Tools, silverlight 2.0, Blend For Programmers