Silverlight 1.1 comes with an built-in JSON serializer which can serialize common data types like string, numbers and arrays. It includes a object serializer, too, I think it is nearly the same as in ASP.NET AJAX or Ajax.NET Professional. I modified my IsolatedStorage demo and added a new method called...

As you may have read on my blog I have added an animation to the gear example from Mike Harsh. Now, the gear community is here! Read Bryant Likes's Blog post about the gears: First the SDK team created an article about generating reflections in WPF/E . Then today I read [via Mike Harsh ] about Michael...

In one of my last posts I wrote about the Silverlight Surface demo of the "photo table". If you had a look on the live demo you only see images, no video. I have added this because it is a very great idea to do it with Silverlight and the high media support inside. I setup a online version and the source...

You may have read my post about how you can build Silverlight Web applications with Visual Studio .NET 2005 instead of using the next verison codename Orcas. Until this time I used always a Virtual PC which was sometimes a little bit slow. Today I was thinking about how I could do this with Notepad....

Could Silverlight 1.1 assemblies be generated with Visual Studio .NET 2005? Well, if you read the GetStarted page of Silverlight you see only upcoming Visual Studio codename Orcas as development platform. Bryant asked this in the Silverlight forum and got a great answer from Scott Louvau . He replied...

The source code of the 3D engine called Balder is available on CodePlex , now. The state of the source code is not 100% yet, but people can download it for now and have a look at how you could do a simple 3D engine. A live demo of the 3D engine is available online. Read more at the Blog'A'Little blog...

(English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.) Am kommenden Donnersten, den 26. Juli 2007, veranstalten wir einen kleinen, kostenfreien Workshop zum Thema Microsoft Silverlight . Danke an Thomas Müller, der...

The last weeks I was a little bit busy because of some projects and other work I had to do at home. But today I will publish some new links about Silverlight: New Visual Studio Version for Silverlight (2nd beta) How Silverlight Update works , (my old post: WPF/E Plugin Update ) Introduction to Microsoft...

While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers . The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth connection is enough. Combining this project with...

The new beta of Silverlight 2 introduces Sockets. The security model enforced by the System.Net.Sockets namespace in Silverlight 2 allows for a connection only back to the site or host of origin. So Silverlight 2 applications will be allowed to connect only to the host from which they were downloaded...