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One Man’s Guide To Silverlight Nirvana

Every day (honest) I am asked for a path through the learning material, even though the Getting Started page offers an explicit path. And that is not surprising. We all have our own way of learning. Here is the path that I personally tend to suggest to most Silverlight neophytes. Path of quick learning...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-26-2008
What is coming soon?

You have noticed, I’m sure, that there has been a flurry of blogging, videos and more since the release of Beta 2. That is all goodness, though it can be hard to know where to start; and the road map will differ depending on where you are in your experience with Silverlight. This is a rapidly changing...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008
Beta 2 Month

Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s , one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls. This is so exciting, and so important, that my plan is to make it a central (but not quite exclusive) focus for the month of...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008
Creating a Project from xaml and xaml.cs files

I posted the code for the PageSwitcher app described in a previous blog post , but to save space and to make the download faster, I didn't include anything but the code (no solution or project files). A reader wrote asking how to create a project and it is a more than fair question as the answer...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-31-2008
What do you think of my Silverlight How Do I Videos?

I'm always looking for ways to make this blog specifically and all my material on silverlight in general more interactive. Survey Monkey offers free surveys, so I thought I'd try it out by asking you to take a 1 page survey on what you think of my Silverlight 2 How Do I videos . If you have a...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-20-2008
Creating Controls in Code

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" Width="50" Height="30" Content...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-05-2008
Silverlight Debugging Challenge

In about a week, I'll be posting a video on creating a form that responds to keyboard shortcuts (as an intro to a video on user controls). This is also covered in the tutorial User Controls ) As a challenge to those of you who are already comfortable with styles and data-binding and who "don't...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2008
What is coming in the next few weeks?

A couple readers of my blog and folks eager to learn more about Silverlight 2 have written to me asking for 2 things: 1. Tutorials and Videos on the specific topics of interest to them (great, keep 'em coming) and 2. Greater transparency in my schedule of what I'll be releasing Normally, I don't...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-19-2008
Binding Data How Do I Video Posted

I'm pleased to say that we've posted a new How Do I Video on Binding Data to Silverlight 2 Controls. In the very beginning of this video I say it is about "wiring up events" but I'm confused and befuddled -- it is, of course, about binding UI objects to business objects. This is...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
How Accurate are Our Tutorials and Videos?

A reader wrote to me today saying ( paraphrased ) ...let you know that the PDF version of the Data Binding tutorial identifies itself as tutorial #3 when it should be #2. As result of past experiences with Microsoft I tend to take such things as a sign of the quality control that’s been applied...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-02-2008

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