Gizmox announces the release of version 6.2.1 of its SDK. The Visual Webgui SDK now incorporates both the DHTML and the Silverlight and enables to work with both .NET 2.0 and 3.5 on the same machine. In addition, the new release includes the new wrapper feature announced earlier . Here is a more detailed...

Fabrice Barbin ( Groove MVP ) has developed an extraordinary tool with Groove and Silverlight. It is a 'Nabazgame' that can be played amongst members in a Groove space. This is very promising - it opens up the ability to use Silverlight to develop Groove applications. (Click image below for Fabrice's...

I was looking for an interesting starting point to getting my hands dirty with Silverlight. Deepzoom caught my attention. It is basically a Silverlight component that let's you zoom in and out into an image. While there are some examples out there that utilize and showcase it, most of them are pretty...

When we last left our heroes , we talked a bit about cutting up a single image for the purpose of serving tiles to a MultiScaleImage (Deep Zoom) in Silverlight. The motivation in this case is to offer some other means of serving the images, like from a database, instead of the mess of files that Deep...

I've been trying to put together a couple of articles on rolling your own Deep Zoom viewer, fed by a database with images all cut up for you. The image cutting I've got, the data I've got... but the MultiScaleImage control is not working as expected. There are a couple of articles out there already that...

I've been thinking a lot about Silverlight lately, for a lot of reasons. What really put me to task was my boss asking me what its impact is and if he should care about it. That certainly changed my approach and purpose for thinking about it. As one typically does, I started by Googling around for opinions...

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

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...

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'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...