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Xaml vs XAML

I received an email from Ian Griffiths who informed me that the "Xaml spec refers to Xaml as Xaml , and not XAML ." because Rob Relyea didn't like the "shouty caps" look of all upper case. After some back and forth, I contacted Rob, who wrote back that Ian is right (no surprise...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-28-2008
New Look - Same Blog

Don't panic! It's the same blog; I just changed the look to make it easier to use and easier to read. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for lots of videos and tutorials over the next fortnight. -j

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-05-2008
What I'm Thinking About April

I've been getting a lot of mail on the lines of "When will we have Beta 2?" or "what is the release date for Silverlight" and since I can't answer those questions, and since I know that folks need to plan, I thought I'd tell you what I can know (at least to some degree...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-24-2008
Will Silverlight Controls Become More WPF Like - A Personal Opinion

I was told when I joined Microsoft that I no longer had personal opinions about matters having to do with Microsoft software, and certainly not about Silverlight. As a "Blue Badge" I'm just exposed to too much confidential information to be seen as offering informal speculation or personal...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-22-2008
More on Routing and Bubbling

One of the readers of my earlier post on routing and bubbling was left confused about when events are bubbled and when they are not. The documentation is clearer about this in some places than in others. For example, the Mouse events documentation has this to say: There are two things to notice here...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-21-2008
Tip of the Day - What to Expect in Silverlight Help

I've received a lot of very positive feedback from the tutorials and videos and a lot of inquiries about what help will be forthcoming and how to get help right away. I thought I'd take a few minutes to provide some guidelines that are intended to optimize your experience, not to restrict your...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-19-2008
Tip of the Day - Great Silverlight Programmer utilities

Personally, one of the reasons that I opted to move to Microsoft tools long ago was I got tired of LightSpeed telling me that the problem was the debugger and Periscope telling me it was the editor, and XYWrite telling me it was the compiler and... well you get the idea. Visual Studio 2008...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-09-2008
Tip of the Day: How the Silverlight Videos Are Made

Creating A How Do I Video - Step By Step Let me bring you behind the scenes and tell you how I create a video. I'm very open to suggestions, but remember that my goal is to create great videos but to create six of them a month.. Decide what focused topic I'm going to demonstrate. The topic needs...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-08-2008
Silverlight 2 Tutorials - Source Code

"Why are you showing images of the source - I can't copy and paste!" I've received a number of emails asking this question and I have a number of answers <smile> After a lot of experimentation, I'm convinced that images of code are a lot easier to read than typed in code....

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-06-2008
Scott Guthrie

My first posting of the Road Map to the Silverlight 2 Tutorials was linked to an earlier draft, which is why it was taken down (these things happen). Unfortunately, RSS being what it is; before one can sat "Stop the presses!" archives appeared in various places, and so that mistake will live...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-04-2008

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