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Silverlight 2 Release Guide

As promised, Silverlight 2 is now not merely released, it is really and most sincerely released… If You Are A New Silverlight Programmer If you are taking this occasion to become a Silverlight programmer, welcome! Everything you need is here on the Get Started Page. I suggest you follow this order: download...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
Silverlight Controls, Controls Team, and Testing

This blog will rarely be the place for breaking news, but there are two related pieces of information I want to ensure you know about at the risk of repeating news that has been blogged by others. First, Shawn Burke’s team has announced their intention to release the following new Silverlight controls...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-04-2008
A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight

Back in June I posted a blog entry on how to get started with Silverlight; it seems it is time to update that as the world changes very quickly and we have many new resources. Each of us has our own way of learning, but here is my suggested path through the information, mixing tutorials and videos with...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008
Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and got back a blizzard of related words, (Click on...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008
Candidate for favorite new utility

I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip board, it is captured to ClipTrack (though you can...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of my To-do List

I’m pleased to announce we’ve posted three new videos: Graphics and Brushes (never hurts to “brush up” on the fundamentals and I try to bring together what we were doing in 1.0 with what Blend brings to the party. Using Multiple Pages Part 2 covers passing data/parameters from one page to the next (and...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
One of the most unusual books I’ve ever written

I’m pleased to announce the release of what may be one of the most unusual books I’ve ever written, Programming .NET 3.5 Briefly, it was our theory; generated long before I started work at Microsoft, that while there was good reason to write what I call “silo” books on each of the .NET technologies ...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
Camtasia Crash Tip Update

Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I’ve been plagued by crashes, and it turns out that TechSmith, the wonderfully responsive folks who make the product have found the problem and a work around. ...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
Four Twitter Silverlight Blogs

Because I’ve probably introduced more confusion than I have any right to, I’ll tell you quickly about 5 Twitter blogs I’m associated with… SilverlightNews – very popular and closely connected with one of the premier Silverlight aggregators: Silverlight Cream. Silverlight Events with a Twitter feed and...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-27-2008
Camtasia Crash Tip

[Updated 7/3] If you are using Camtasia (wonderful product) to create your screen captures and you do a lot of editing (especially zooms and call outs and cuts) you run the risk of overloading the project and causing Camtasia to slow and/or crash. Camtasia Studio 5: The Definitive Guide (Wordware Applications...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008

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