Post: Approved at: Oct-19-2008

Scott Guthrie Video: Building SL 2 apps

"Now that Silverlight 2 has released to the Web, we sat down with Scott Guthrie as he walks us through handcoding a basic Silverlight 2 application. You'll see the Silverlight eventing model, controls and control databinding, how to reuse classes and C# 3.0 features, and how to call WCF Web services directly from Silveright." [More]

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Scott-Guthrie-Building-a-Silverlight-2-application/

Silverlight 2 Release Guide

"As promised, Silverlight 2 is now not merely released, it is really and most sincerely released…" [More]

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-release-guide.aspx

SL and ADO.NET proxy generation

"One of the nice little additions to the data client services in Silverlight 2 is the removal of the need to drop out of Visual Studio to do some proxy code generation.  Prior to Silverlight 2 release, if you wanted to consume an ADO.NET Data Service (the artist formerly known as Astoria), you had to drop into a command line and execute something like:" [More]

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/10/14/use-add-service-reference-with-astoria-for-silverlight.aspx

New controls, tools and announcements

"Whew, we made it!  Silverlight 2 is now released (and available for download)!  (Official press release here.)  I know we’ve always said “by the end of the year” but the team has worked really hard to get Silverlight 2 released well before then so you can start building and deploying your applications.  A lot of people don’t realize that “Silverlight” is actually a team of many that make up the runtime, media, tools, controls, etc. teams.  Hats off to all those involved who pushed hard to get Silverlight 2 out the door (and are already working on the next version)!" [More]

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released-officially.aspx

Culture settings in Silverlight

"One thing that I’m just as guilty as probably most of some of my peers is creating US-centric applications.  Forgetting to think globally for your users is something that I think happens too often.  We operate in our US-centric worlds and forget that sometimes even the simplest things can make a difference." [More]

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/10/15/silverlight-culture-ui-settings.aspx

SL Tools Installation Speed Bumps?

"There’s been a few questions that come up between all of the Silverlight 2 releases, especially with regards to installing and upgrading tools.  I’d like to address a few of the FAQs for the Silverlight 2 Tools for VS2008:" [More]

http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2008/10/16/silverlight-tools-installation-speed-bumps-2/

Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer on SL2

"This week we talk to Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer about the Silverlight 2 release.

Topics

•What’s new?
•The releationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2
•The Eclipse for Silverlight development
•The Open Specification Promise for XAML
•Progress on Mono / Moonlight
•The elevator speech on Silverlight
•How Silverlight fits in with AJAX
•Can Silverlight support separation of concerns and testability?
•Will Microsoft be shipping frameworks for Silverlight?
•Will Silverlight support offline scenarios
•Silverlight as a “line of business” platform
•The WPF / Silverlight connection
•The Silverlight open source community
•The Flash question
•The casual gaming market
•Silverlight performance vs. Javascript
•Speculation on Silverlight 3 features…
•The non-Windows development experience
•The Silverlight story for iPhone and other mobile platforms "

[More]

http://herdingcode.com/?p=69

Some thoughts on SL 2

"By now you’ve probably heard that we’ve shipped Silverlight 2.0. Many folks love it, some folks don’t care. Though I avoided spend much time at all with Silverlight 1.0 and resisted 2.0 until it neared commercial quality delivery, my personal interest is just gaining momentum. So now that Silverlight 2.0 is an officially released product I thought I’d share some thoughts. When it comes to software development, I tend to be PRAGMATIC above all else. I’m not one of those guys (and we have them here at Microsoft, even on my own team) who emerge themselves in the latest technology for little more reason then that fact that it’s the “new thing”. Don’t get me wrong, we NEED those guys. They will flush out the problems and shape the technology that the rest of us will be using in 5 years; it’s just not where I choose to spend my limited time." [More]

http://www.misfitgeek.com/Some+Thoughts+Now+That+Silverlight+20+Is+Released.aspx

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