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Silverlight Tutorials Now In Japanese

I’m very pleased to announce that the Silverlight Tutorials are now available in Japanese with more on the way soon. (All tutorials in VB and C# soon as well) -Jesse

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
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
New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code. This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding and Data Templates using Expression Blend DataBinding...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
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
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
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
The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More

In what may be a first (at least for me) I've secured agreement with the very generous folks I work for here and at O'Reilly to loosely join the tutorials and the chapters of our forthcoming book Programming Silverlight (co-authored by Tim Heuer, O'Reilly 2008) to create an enhanced ...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-07-2008
User Controls: Tutorial

A quick announcement and some words of thanks. I'm pleased to say that Tutorial #5: Keyboard Input and User Controls is now available for reading on line or as a PDF. The thanks go first to Karen Corby whose amazing presentation at Mix I shamelessly stole as the basis for the tutorial (see my blog...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-25-2008
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
LINQ To SQL

A number of folk have written to me in response to my 3rd tutorial asking that I spend some time focusing on how to obtain data from a SQL database. This is the topic for tutorial #4, to be released on April 1. A few interesting issues arose when writing that tutorial, and so I thought I'd start...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-26-2008

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