Microsoft Blog Archives

Silverlight 4 Links

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 — Karen Corby

Here’s a set of interesting Silverlight 4 links… Bits & Tools Visual Studio 2010 Beta Silverlight 4 Beta Tools For Visual Studio 2010 Developer Runtime (Windows, Mac)

Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update]

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 — David Anson

We shipped the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit a little over a week ago and it includes a handful of improvements to the Data Visualization assembly . It also adds support for the new Silverlight 4 Be...

Using Azure as a Silverlight Streaming replacement

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 — Tim Heuer

Many have inquired if Silverlight Live Streaming had a replacement since the announcement of it being deprecated . The SLS team blog pointed to Azure as a possible solution. Since it doesn’t seem like anyone except Ja...

Building extensible Silverlight applications with MEF

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 — Tim Heuer

At PDC09, Glenn Block delivered a great presentation on building extensible RIAs using the Managed Extensibility Framework ( FT24 from the PDC09 sessions ). Glenn is one of the PMs and face-man for MEF. He’s been trav...

Silverlight Design Time Assemblies

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 — Microsoft Weblogs

Introduction If you write Silverlight controls, you should consider writing design time assemblies for your controls too, for two simple reasons: developer productivity: try to imagine Silverlight development without ...

Free Silverlight 4 Event in Tampa – Monday Dec 7th @ 6:15pm

Sunday, Nov 29, 2009 — John Papa

Florida has a fantastic developer community with some great people who are a just a blast to share technology with. That’s why I am thrilled to announce that I am heading to Tampa on Dec 7th where I will be presenting...

Silverlight 4: Sum is Greater than the Parts

Saturday, Nov 28, 2009 — John Papa

Now that Silverlight 4 beta has been released there are tons of people trying the new bits, starting to develop applications, and blogging some great samples and ideas. You can check out all of the features from the S...

Silverlight Drag and Drop API

Saturday, Nov 28, 2009 — Microsoft Weblogs

Introduction Drag and drop is a common UX paradigm and a top requested feature. In Silverlight 4 Beta, we introduced a basic set of API to enable the most common scenario of dragging pictures files and dropping them t...

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010 – Now in Visual Basic!!

Saturday, Nov 28, 2009 — Brad Abrams

I had a great time at my talk PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB… So here is the next best thing: A full play-by-play of the demo, but all in VB! Enjoy. What you need to get s...

Silverlight MVP List on Twitter

Thursday, Nov 26, 2009 — John Papa

The Silverlight MVP community is notorious at sharing information through blogs and Twitter. I created a new Silverlight MVP Twitter list to make it easier to follow all of the Silverlight MVPs and the evangelists. Yo...