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Ronnie Saurenmann concludes his two-part LINQ to SQL series. Jesse Liberty demonstrates how to capture key down events and Todd Miranda shows how to animate paths, communicate between plug-ins on the same page, and implement multi-language support in Silverlight 1.0.
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.
The community gallery has expanded with six new Silverlight 1.0 and 10 new Silverlight 2 Beta 1 entries. Check out the games, media players, photo galleries, animated charts, and more!
The newest release of the suite of tools for creative professionals includes revolutionary capabilities such as Silverlight functionality, PHP support and Adobe Photoshop import capabilities.
11 New Silverlight Videos!
7 days, 21 hours ago
This week our Silverlight 1.0 video selection has grown to include the Fire Starter video series, which offers tools and information on how to start writing your own Silverlight applications. In addition, check out the three new Silverlight 2 Beta 1 videos which demonstrate how to use HTTP Communication, StandardGrid, and Dynamic Controls.
This week the Silverlight Showcase lets you take a walk on the wild side at the Sorocaba Zoo website, indulge your senses at Concique, an Executive Leisure company, browse interesting travel destinations at Glata Tours, and more!
New Silverlight 1.0 Video
14 days, 23 hours ago
In this video, Michael Palermo will demonstrate a simple, minimalistic way to approach Silverlight. This video will stress just the necessary requirements and steps to get started with Silverlight.
12 New Silverlight Gallery Entries
15 days, 22 hours ago
Visit our community gallery to see the new Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Silverlight 1.0 entries. Play Tic-Tac-Toe, test your duck hunting skills with the Silverlight Bird Hunt game, and see two examples of clocks written in IronPython and IronRuby, and more!
User Controls in Silverlight
15 days, 23 hours ago
This tutorial demonstrates how to create UserControls in Silverlight. A UserControl is simply an empty control that can be used to create other controls. Fill them with XAML, code, or a mixture thereof and reuse them throughout your application.
In this eight-part video series, Dan Wahlin focuses on building Silverlight 2 Beta 1 applications. Learn how to use Layout Management, Style Elements, the List Box, User Controls, Templates and more!
Tim Heuer shows how to consume WCF and ASP.NET web services in Silverlight. He also describes how to use cross-domain policy files when accessing third party web services. Jesse Liberty shows how to bind Silverlight Controls to an Application's Business Logic Layer. Ronnie Saurenmann shows how to use LINQ to SQL with Silverlight, and Michael Palermo wraps up his two-part series on creating a simple video game in Silverlight 1.0.
12 New Showcase Entries
23 days, 21 hours ago
The Silverlight Showcase is expanding with games, retirement planning calculators, automotive programs and more!  See what our community members have been busy creating!
Experience 17 new Silverlight 2 and four new Silverlight 1.0 gallery entries submitted by our community members: Visit Russia with Russian Silverlight Airlines, listen to a Silverlight Podcast Player, see the Deep Zoom Collections, test your typing speed and more!
In this introductory video, Dan Waters will show you how to build a deep zoom Silverlight 2 application in a short amount of time.
For those of you not lucky enough to attend MIX 2008 we have just released 27 video recordings of the Silverlight presentations from this recent event. Over 30 hours of event coverage!