-- Updated for ASP.NET AJAX Final Release and for the February WPF/E CTP. Live version now available -- So many technologies and so little time! It's hard to keep up with all of the great new technologies being released but over the holiday break I made some time to play around with the February...

What happens to a Silverlight control if the browser window is resized? What happens to the Silverlight control if its containing HTML is resized? What happens if the inner content of the Silverlight control is resized? This video demonstrates the answers to these questions, and then explains how we...

Need dynamic data in your Silverlight application? Want to create a nice interactive experience for users of your site? In my latest video, I demonstrate how to generate XAML dynamically on the server based on user input - and serving that content through AJAX via Page Methods .

How can you make one UIElement in Silverlight appear behind or in front of another? How can you provide transparency effects to shapes, text, or videos? How can you clip geometric sections off of visual objects? In this video, you will learn how to accomplish these tasks with common graphic properties...

In my latest video available at the Silverlight.net site, I briefly demonstrate the default error handling capabilities of Silverlight 1.0 applications, and then show how to intercept errors to provide custom error handling. [ watch the video ] [ download the code ] Technorati Tags: silverlight , error...

In this video, I demonstrate how easy it is to debug your Silverlight 1.0 applications in Visual Studio 2008.  As a new web site is constructed in the video, you will learn and use the interactive debugging tools of Visual Studio 2008. [ watch the video ] Technorati Tags: debugging , silverlight...

I gave a talk at Desert Code Camp toward the end of 2007 that discussed how Microsoft's Silverlight product could be integrated with ASP.NET AJAX to dynamically display albums obtained from an Amazon.com Web Service. It's taken awhile to get the video posted, but it's now available. The audio in the...

In my latest video, I demonstrate how to create a Silverlight application that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users.  You will learn how to make calls to an open source Twitter API via AJAX Page Methods, and display the results with faded text effects. [ watch the video ] [ download...

Silverlight 2.0 provides a new and exciting framework for building rich applications using C#, VB.NET or other languages that are capable of running on multiple operating systems and in multiple browsers. Scott Guthrie recently posted a great set of tutorials on Silverlight 2.0 that are an excellent...

In this video, I demonstrate how to allow your Silverlight applications to respond to mouse wheel events.  In a previous video , we learned how to create a cool “magnifying glass” effect for image viewing.  Using the mouse wheel, I will provide the additional feature of zooming...