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• Please Don’t Read This Blog Post

  Scott Hanselman , who has the most popular blog in the world, will tell you that if you want to have a popular blog you must never make promises – you’re certain to disappoint. I’m sure he’s right, as I’ve done so in the past (made promises and disappointed... Posted Nov 13 2008, 09:01 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Observations

• Tutorial & Video Info

  I've received quite a bit of mail this week about advanced tutorials, so here's a quick note of what is planned. As you know we have RTW on the way, but I believe these plans will not be held up by that. 1. All the existing tutorials will be updated... Posted Oct 06 2008, 05:12 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Upcoming Releases

• Silverlight tutorials you might not have seen

  There have been some comments popping up that people want more tutorials and when checking the hit count on some of our pages, I noticed that many have barely seen the light of day. So here are a few step-by-step topics you might want to check out. How... Posted Aug 29 2008, 12:02 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials, silverlight 2, QuickStart, Silverlight documentation

• 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

• Tutorial Feedback – Leave a Comment Why Dontcha?

  I’m incredibly pleased to say that we have implemented a comments section for each tutorial, just as we do for each video Please leave your comments and I will subscribe to the comments list and try to respond as quickly as possible (if your comment goes... Posted Aug 19 2008, 12:49 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials, Community

• Advanced Tutorials – What You’ve Suggested

  A quick note to thank so many of you for your excellent suggestions. The following topics are definitely on my list (though not yet in any particular order) and I have quite a few more to look into:   Creating a Skinnable Custom Control in depth... Posted Aug 04 2008, 03:13 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials

• Tutorials Dive Deep

  The next phase of my Silverlight Tutorials will concentrate on more advanced topics. I’d like to invite you to tell me what topics you’d like to see covered; what is most pressing, most confusing or least accessible?  Feel free to drop me a note... Posted Aug 02 2008, 08:09 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials, 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

• Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available

  I’m very pleased to announce that my latest tutorial, on Styles, Templates and the Visual State Manager is now available, in HTML , or as a PDF , and the complete source code is available as well. The Visual State Manager is a very exciting part of the... Posted Jul 08 2008, 03:54 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tutorials, Styles and Templates

• 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

• Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF

  I’m pleased to announce that the following tutorials are now updated for Beta 2 and available for immediate download (but only the PDF versions and the code have been updated so far, the HTML versions are not yet updated) 1 Creating Applications With... Posted Jun 06 2008, 10:07 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, Beta 2

• Beta 2 Month

  Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s , one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls. This is so exciting, and so important, that my plan is to make it a central... Posted Jun 04 2008, 07:28 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Webcast, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Blend For Programmers, Beta 2, Visual State Manager

• 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