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• Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

  I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:50 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Community

• Over The Top Twittering

  I see my job as, in part, community building, and as part of that, lots of experimentation. Today, I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new (experimental) HyperMicroBlog named SLGeek (join now) I will be blogging everything – all blogging all the time... Posted Jul 13 2008, 11:25 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Ramblings, Community

• One Man’s Guide To Silverlight Nirvana

  Every day (honest) I am asked for a path through the learning material, even though the Getting Started page offers an explicit path. And that is not surprising. We all have our own way of learning. Here is the path that I personally tend to suggest to... Posted Jun 26 2008, 11:38 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Beta 2

• Who Ate My Mouse Down Event??

  Before I leave, I want to squeeze in one quick note about a problem a lot of folks are running into as they upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I’ll come back to this in more detail when I get back, but here it is in a nutshell. A breaking change in the Beta... Posted Jun 12 2008, 10:54 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Beta 2

• Boston .NET Users Group Meeting

  Last night I had the opportunity to talk to a packed room at the Boston .NET User’s Group; an incredibly welcoming and most friendly group of some 150,000 screaming fans of all things Microsoft. I promised at the time to provide a few links; including... Posted Jun 12 2008, 06:25 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0

• O’Hare is a Very Big Place

  I got to O’Hare at 1pm because the hotel I was staying at had the usual early check out time and it being Sunday there was no reasonable place to go.  When I got here I learned that my 6pm flight was delayed to 10pm. I won’t bore you with the details... Posted Jun 08 2008, 08:04 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight 2.0, Ramblings

• 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

• Popup Control

  Beta 2 includes a wealth of new controls including the Popup (that is new, right? It’s not that I just didn’t notice it before?). I received an email today asking if I’d do a short How Do I video on creating a Popup and I certainly will, but here is a... Posted Jun 06 2008, 11:32 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Beta 2, Controls and Events

• 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

• Beta 2 Event Bubbling

  There are many great changes in Beta 2, and some are designed to make Silverlight more like WPF. One side effect of this is that event bubbling has changed just a bit and that bit breaks some of the examples I love to use. In Beta 1, the distinction was... Posted Jun 03 2008, 03:57 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Beta 2, Controls and Events

• 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

• Multi-Page Applications in Silverlight

  I wanted to build a multi-page (Search - Results) application when I realized that isn't really our model. Fortunately, I wrote to Ashish Shetty , who combines enormous knowledge with enormous kindness, and even though he is in the middle of blogging... Posted May 31 2008, 10:40 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, 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

• What do you think of my Silverlight How Do I Videos?

  I'm always looking for ways to make this blog specifically and all my material on silverlight in general more interactive. Survey Monkey offers free surveys, so I thought I'd try it out by asking you to take a 1 page survey on what you think of... Posted May 20 2008, 09:38 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, silverlight 2.0, How Do I Videos