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Recently we have received a few requests from customers asking whether our out of band (OOB) releases (Silverlight, Dynamic Data Wizard, Model View Controller and Web Deployment Project) are supported in Visual Web Developer (VWD) Express or not. This blog post lists all the OOB releases that we have shipped during the last year and what releases are supported in Visual Web Developer currently.   VS 2008 SP1 RTM VWD 2008 SP1 RTM Timeline Silverlight Refresh Supported Not Supported We have plans to add Silverlight Tools support in VWD Express for the Silverlight 2 release. Model View Controller Supported Supported N/A Dynamic Data Wizard Supported Not Supported Dynamic Data Wizard will support VWD Express with our next code gallery release...

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32   Title : How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.html Silverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title : Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Terrain%20Transititions/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #31 Title : How to Detect Alt, Shift, Control, Windows and Apple keys with Left Mouse Down in Silverlight Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Left%20Mouse%20Down/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 : Title : Fast Sprite Animation in Silverlight Demo : http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Fast%20Sprites...

I was chatting with Billy Hollis about how we often use new technology to do the same old thing and how I was seeing lots of folks doing this with WPF and Silverlight. He mentioned that he had done a video in UI Design with WPF. Check it out, its great for WPF and SIlverlight aficionados. DNR-TV Show #115 | 6/20/2008 Billy Hollis on Getting Smart with WPF Billy Hollis shows us some clever ways to make a clean, efficient user interface in Windows Presentation Foundation. Read More...

7 new Silverlight blogs have been completed. Check them out and let me know if you have any questions. Tip of the Day #23 – How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event Tip of the Day #24 : How to Apply a XAML Template to a Class 3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games Terrain Tutorial Part 1 – Creating a Scrolling Map Tip of the Day #25: How to Build the XAP File to the Debug/Release Folders Tip of the Day #26: How to Change the Output XAP File Name. Tip of the Day #27: How to Change the Mouse Cursor Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...

Tim Heuer has a great post where he talks about NBCOlympics.com and how things are going.  There is a great video talking about this and Silverlight , Eric Schmidt from Microsoft was interviewed about it..  Feel free to check out the video here...

I just read a really interesting article about how Microsoft is helping to bring the Olympics to the PC.  You can read the article here . One of the amazing things about this is that Microsoft got involved in January and was able to make all of this...

Mike Taulty recently uploaded and amazing collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts on how Silverlight works, controls, File IO, networking, UI design, data-binding, interacting with HTML pages, and more. If you want to learn about Silverlight, this set of screencasts should definitely help! Here is the full list of screencasts : Silverlight - Hello World Silverlight - Anatomy of an Application Silverlight - The VS Environment Silverlight - Content Controls Silverlight - Built-In Controls Silverlight - Width, Height, Margins, Padding, Alignment Silverlight - Using a GridSplitter Silverlight - Grid Layout Silverlight - StackPanel Layout Silverlight - Canvas Layout Silverlight - Databinding UI to .NET Classes Silverlight - Simple Styles Silverlight...

Another installment of Silverlight.FX additions to enable creating declarative views - this time, pre-packaged, declarative effects and transitions... Read More...

3 new Silverlight blogs have been completed for this week. Check them out! GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Tip of the Day #22 - How to add Sound Effects, Music and Video to your Silverlight App. Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...

6 new Silverlight tutorials are completed! Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight. Tip of the Day #16 - StoryBoard versus DispatcherTimer for Animation and Game Loops. Tip of the Day #17 - How to Animate a Rotating Image. Tip of the Day #18 - How to Set Browser Cookies. Tip of the Day #19 - Using Isolated Storage. Tip of the Day #20 - How to Increase the Isolated Storage Quota for your App. Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead  Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...