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Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly proud of it. Our goal in Programming Silverlight...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008
Canonical Q&A

Every day I get about 10-30 questions that I answer with a stock response (sorry) that says something like Hello and thank you for writing. I would encourage you to post your question in the Silverlight Forums . Be sure to include: * which version of Silverlight you are running, * which version of Visual...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-13-2008
The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

I used to work for a man named Larry Weiss at Citibank, who did a number of magical things (including creating the best ATMs in the world in the 1980s that still surpass anything I’ve seen other banks do yet!). One concept that he talked about a lot (I have no idea if it was original) was the 5...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
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
Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation

I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them Silverlight.net Getting Started Page Learn Page Silverlight Microblog Scott Guthries’s blog entry on Expression Blend for Programmers Three videos on...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-25-2008
New Live Presentation Series – Starts 6/25

I am pleased to announce a new series, blending Conference-quality presentations delivered through Live Meeting via the Live From Redmond Series. Audience, Goal and Purpose Each presentation will provide a thorough overview of a Silverlight 2 topic with a focused priority of explaining What is...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-18-2008
Who Ate My Mouse Down Event??

Before I leave, I want to squeeze in one quick note about a problem a lot of folks are running into as they upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I’ll come back to this in more detail when I get back, but here it is in a nutshell. A breaking change in the Beta 2 upgrade is that all the controls now handle MouseLeftButtonDown...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008
Boston .NET Users Group Meeting

Last night I had the opportunity to talk to a packed room at the Boston .NET User’s Group; an incredibly welcoming and most friendly group of some 150,000 screaming fans of all things Microsoft. I promised at the time to provide a few links; including of course the single most important; the link to...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008
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 Tutorials Available Now in PDF

I’m pleased to announce that the following tutorials are now updated for Beta 2 and available for immediate download (but only the PDF versions and the code have been updated so far, the HTML versions are not yet updated) 1 Creating Applications With Controls and Events 2 Binding Data In Silverlight...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-06-2008

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