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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
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
Beta 2 Month

Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s , one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls. This is so exciting, and so important, that my plan is to make it a central (but not quite exclusive) focus for the month of...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008
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
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
What is coming in the next few weeks?

A couple readers of my blog and folks eager to learn more about Silverlight 2 have written to me asking for 2 things: 1. Tutorials and Videos on the specific topics of interest to them (great, keep 'em coming) and 2. Greater transparency in my schedule of what I'll be releasing Normally, I don't...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-19-2008
Tutorial: Data From a SQL DB via WCF (using LINQ)

My 4th tutorial Displaying SQL Database Data in a DataGrid using LINQ and WCF is now available, as is the source code and a version of the tutorial in PDF For the moment, I recommend the PDF version as the images are clearer. We're fixing up the HTML versions of all the tutorials even as I write...

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