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Share Everything...

Clearly one thing that social networking is about is exploring the limits on what you want to share and what other people might be interested in. There is, I'm sure, at least one sociology paper (and two reports to the D.A.) in this theme... Different social networking services have been more or...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-22-2008
Silverlight 1.0 for Total Novices

I received two emails today asking that I repost my recommendations on how to get started with Silverlight 1.0. Here you go.... The best way to get started is to go to the Silverlight site and click on Get Starged From there you can click on Get Started to download the files you need. My advice would...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-18-2008
Tip of the Day - Popfly

Mix is fast upon us, and to be perfectly honest, I'm preparing frantically. That means that I've been behind in my Tip of the Day. Rather than closing it down, I want to take the three weeks between now and Mix and really focus on some areas of Silverlight 1.0 that I've not been paying enough...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-12-2008
Tip of the Day: Programming with Media in 1.0

A user posted a comment in response to one of our videos (did you know you can do that now??) I thought others might want the answer as well.... This quick start on media may be a good next step. There are a number of How Do I videos on using media. I'd recommend starting on the Learn page , click...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-10-2008
Free Silverlight Seminar in Dallas Texas Feb 18, 2008

Shawn Wildermuth, theADOguy (who should really rename himself the Silverlight guy ) is giving a free seminar at the Microsoft office in Dallas on 2/18. Shawn is a very smart cool guy who knows a lot about a lot, and even more about Silverlight , so this should be a great event, and I'm told he's...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-06-2008
Webcast Follow-up - CreateFromXAML

Today's Webcast focused on factoring out repeated creation of objects in XAML (and their manipulation in the code behind) by creating objects dynamically using CreateFromXaml (This will be available for viewing as soon as the recording is processed). The webcast began by showing this application...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-06-2008
Adam Kinney's Too Great To Miss Tutorial on Making a Chart In 1.0

Do not miss Adam Kinney's excellent tutorial on creating a bar chart in Silverlight 1.0; it is brilliant, and it is a great staring point on working with XAML, JavaScript, JSON data and many other interesting aspects of Silverlight . Also, while I have you, a quick apology; in my haste to put up...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-05-2008
Tips of the Day: Setting properties in custom controls in 1.0

Got a nice international email today that said in part... ...things get more interesting it is a common scenario to write custom controls....I need to specify the parameters in code behind. Can I create custom xaml tags which are connected to the code-behind? ... I mean something like... <myButton...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-05-2008
Did You Know... How to create XAML objects in Javascript?

I have had a very strong positive reaction to focusing on the Javascript in code behind for Silverlight 1.0, and so will devote not only today's Tip of the Day to a bit more on the topic, but will make sure that I do so on a frequent basis for a while. Before I start: a small house keeping measure...

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

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