Recently I've developed my photoblog using Silverlight 1.0 and I found some trouble working hardly with animations. My concern was the coordination of different animation running in a scene. I found often difficult to create sequences of animations where a storyboard start running when another storyboard...

Christophe Lauer has an interesting post (en français) that emphasizes how well-positioned .NET developers are to take on all sorts of platforms. For example, Silverlight job offers are just starting to show up on the radar in the Indeed.com Job Trends where Adobe Flex remains the leader. As Christophe...

A weekend a couple of months ago I coded a quick and dirty spike on a C# library to wrap the Silverlight Streaming REST APIs. Using this library you can add, replace and delete File Sets (Applications) and files in your Silverlight Streaming account. You can also retrieve information that is not directly...

I'm always excited to publish new authors on SingingEels.com, especially with fun topics like Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX. Michael O’Brien, who hails from Dublin, Ireland has contributed the following articles: Creating Your First ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Application Getting Started With Silverlight Great articles...

I am a software developer and architect (currently using Microsoft technologies) so of course I was interested to watch the sessions from the MIX conference that just happened last week in Las Vegas. Incidentally, I visited the on-demand web site for MIX using my default browser (Safari on Mac) and of...

I love Silverlight. If you are reading this text, you know why. Looking at the various demos makes me want to work in Silverlight. When Microsoft.com offers me their download center in Silverlight I click the yes please option. The eye candy makes me happy to be a user. Even the moving backgrounds are...

If you've already tried getting into Silverlight and stopped via frustration from not knowing some basics, then hopefully this article will rekindle your desire to dive in. This article simply covers the various layout options you have and some simple XAML nuances: Silverlight Basics - XAML and Layout

Hey everyone -- just got out of the Tech·Ed 2008 keynote and learned that this was Bill's last keynote as chairman of Microsoft... kind of cool to witness. Was a good session, outlining SQL Server Data Services and some other stuff -- but nothing "new", per se. But hopefully we'll see some good stuff...

In case you haven't already seen it, this is the drool-worthy thing using Silverlight 2. Gasp! http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/