Microsoft Silverlight content

Write Silverlight, win XBOX

Blogs — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:11:19 GMT

Want a Silverlight -branded XBOX console? Yeah, me too, that would be cool. Well, there isn’t one of those, but there is a chance for you to show your Silverlight prowess and win some cool stuff. The RIA development portal at DevX is currently running...(read more)

New and great Silverlight examples

Blogs — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:37:12 GMT

There are some really great application concepts emerging using Silverlight . I cam across two that I feel are really demonstrating great use of the technology, both in the code as well as attention to detail in the user interface. Both of these examples...(read more)

Check out the new Silverlight Snacks from Microsoft Learning

Blogs — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:11:02 GMT

Hello! Chris Franz from Microsoft Learning dropped me an email the other day letting me know the availability of something called: “Learning Snacks”. These are some awesome quick tours that provide you knowledge on different topics. They are...(read more)

Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back To You

Blogs — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:17:09 GMT

Aha! Okay, I may not fully understand all the requirements, but the following demo will show how to dynamically create a user control and then have that user control close itself, remove itself from the containing page and fire an event to the page so...(read more)

Dynamic Languages in Silverlight?

Archived News — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT

Learn how the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK enables developers to use dynamic languages to build Silverlight applications. Get the bits, view samples, walkthroughs, talks, and more....(read more)

Dynamically creating and destroying containers

Blogs — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:33:34 GMT

Ben H. asked a question within a comment to a previous blog post. Suppose, there is a button on the main form and when the user clicks on the button, a new container gets instantiated and the new container appears on the top of the main form. However...(read more)

The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More

Blogs — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:12:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Thank you for joining us at the CRE8 conference!

Blogs — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:52:35 GMT

Hello! Thank you everyone for joining us at the CRE8 Conference last week at Orlando. It was an amazing experience being there with you. Thanks to everyone for being there at the keynote (early in the morning after a party! ). Brian and I had a lot of...(read more)

Making use of your JSON data in Silverlight

Blogs — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:40:14 GMT

Wait! Don’t throw out your JSON services! The Situation You’ve made an investment in exposing some services for client script consumption. Most likely if you did it in the past 2 years, that involved exposing your data as JSON formatted objects. What...(read more)

More on layout and the LayoutInformation APIs

Blogs — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:04:00 GMT

As I was digging around in an old spec, I came across some very enlightening drawings which I pushed through art review and I will now share with you. Ashish wrote a nice post on the layout and rendering engines which might help you understand what's...(read more)

Silverlight Resources

Blogs — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:16:17 GMT

The following is my list of Silverlight Resources including blogs, tutorials and more. If you know of any other good ones please let me know as I will keep this list updated on a regular basis: Install The Latest Tools http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...(read more)

Creating Controls in Code

Blogs — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:53:08 GMT

In my new video I demonstrate how you can create controls dynamically at run time. The technique is very straight forward, everything you can create declaratively in XAML you can also create dynamically in C#. xaml <Button x:Name="Button1"...(read more)

Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight

Blogs — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:40:57 GMT

In ASP.NET 2.0, we introduced a very powerful set of application services in ASP.NET ( Membership , Roles and profile ). In 3.5 we created a client library for accessing them from Ajax and .NET Clients and exposed them via WCF web services. ...(read more)

RFC: OpenTweets - Why is Microblogging centralized?

Blogs — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:20:47 GMT

I'm thoroughly enjoying Twitter ( follow me !) Apparently others are enjoying it also as there's a funny estimate that it's costing $14 billion in lost productivity (via a back of envelope calculation ). There is about a million people on...(read more)

Skinning an embeddable Silverlight 2 media player

Blogs — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:38:36 GMT

While Silverlight 2 brings us great capabilities as .NET developers and opens many opportunities for creating rich clients in the browser, it still supports strong media features that have been available since the initial release of Silverlight. The ability...(read more)