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Silverlight Cream for September 06, 2008 -- #362

Silverlight — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:53:12 GMT

Michael Washington on Silverlight Desktop for DNN, Corey Schuman with Play/Paus button, Shawn Wildermuth on Project Rosetta, Koen Zwikstra on disposing of objects, Mike Snow on Full-screen mode and creating shadows, and Ken with XAML on demand. Shawn...(read more)

Announcing: Project Rosetta

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:15:18 GMT

URL : http://www.projectrosetta.com/ Microsoft launched Project Rosetta today. To quote the site: Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know...(read more)

My Silverlight 2 Data Services Article Code Updated

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:13:19 GMT

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/sl2_ds_example.zip I've uploaded a new version of my code from my Silverlight 2/Data Services MSDN Article. I took the new Silverlight 2 Data Services client that was released and updated the code example. If...(read more)

Introducing Our New Silverlight Tour Instructor

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:11:50 GMT

URL : http://wildermuthconsulting.com/instructors.aspx I'd like to introduce you to the Silverlight Tour 's newest instructor. Erik Mork (of The Sparkling Client Podcast fame) has agreed to become an instructor for the Silverlight Tour . We are...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2008 -- #361

Silverlight — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:20:40 GMT

Chris Cavanagh with YouCube, Bart Czernicki with a Multithreading control, Doug Blackmore with a SL2 Combobox, SilverlightShow with a 'glow' effect, SilverlightGirl on making a text appear and disappear, Peter McGrattan with a 3-part series on...(read more)

Manic Miner on Silverlight Spectrum Emulator

.NET, Silverlight, and other ramblings (from the UK) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:28:00 GMT

So I've done a little more work on the Silverlight Spectrum Emulator ( see my previous article ) I've fixed the transparency issues I've been having and I have setup some Keyboard mappings, and I've changed some of the timings. This means...(read more)

New Dates for the Silverlight Tour

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:47:25 GMT

URL : http://www.silverlight-tour.com/schedule.aspx As the end of the year is creeping up on us, we are proud to announce our Winter/Spring schedule for the Silverlight Tour . If you are working on next year's training budgets, don't forget to...(read more)

Silverlight 2, Chrome and Window Resizing

.NET, Silverlight, and other ramblings (from the UK) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:07:00 GMT

Defy all Challenges This is a very cool site which really shows the power of Silverlight 2. I recommend you have a play with it in IE7 Google Chrome Unfortunately this site doesn’t work so well with Google Chrome (infact most Silverlight applications...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for September 02, 2008 -- #360

Silverlight — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:23:46 GMT

Koen Zwikstra with Silverlight Spy, John Papa on UserControl from Popup Control, Shawn Wildermuth on his SL2 Data Services Article, Pete Brown with an install experience, Jonas Follesø on Presentation Model and HTML Bridge, and Martin Grayson with Parts...(read more)

New Build of Silverlight Library for Data Services!

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:59:24 GMT

URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/... Mike Flasko to the rescue! The ADO.NET Data Services Team has released an interim build of the ADO.NET Data Services Library to address .NET 3.5 SP1 incompatibilities. While this is just a stop...(read more)

More On Chrome

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:24:57 GMT

URL : http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-US/privacy... I usually am not one of those tinfoil hat guys, but the Google Chrome Privacy Policy says that anything I do with the browser is sent to Google with a browser unique id attached to it. From their...(read more)

Silverlight 2 and Google Chrome

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:58:07 GMT

URL : http://www.silverlight-tour.com I just installed the Google Chrome browser and to no one's surprise, it doesn't support Silverlight 2 . Not sure why it doesn't work since it supports WebKit. What I find most interesting is that it thinks...(read more)

Denver Stop of the Silverlight Tour

Shawn Wildermuth's Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:27:25 GMT

URL : http://www.silverlight-tour.com In case you hadn't heard, the Silverlight Tour is making a stop in Denver Colorado on September 15th-17th. If you're in the market for a 3-day workshop on Silverlight 2, don't forget to sign up now while...(read more)

Jesse Liberty in Bristol

.NET, Silverlight, and other ramblings (from the UK) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:52:00 GMT

Guy Smith-Ferrier (who runs DotNetDevNet) has pulled off an amazing coup and has captured Jesse Liberty and is holding him hostage in Bristol until he presents some Silverlight sessions. This will be a superb event and totally recommend you get across...(read more)

Silverlight Install Experience for MSDN East Coast News

POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Silverlight — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:17:29 GMT

I’m putting the finishing touches on our first beta of MSDN East Coast News and decided to provide a customized install experience. The out of the box installation experience looks like this: That works, but really isn’t acceptable for this application...(read more)