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• Building Business Applications with Silverlight?

  I'd love to hear feedback and thoughts you have about building business focused applications with Silverlight.  What is motivating you to consider Silverlight?  if you have already started to evaluating, what is easy or hard about it? Related, Blaine recently posted a survey on his blog about much the same thing focused on gathering data for Prism 2.0   Please take the survey! Thanks! Read More... Posted Sep 05 2008, 01:22 AM by Brad Abrams Filed under: Silverlight

• Visual Web Developer support for out of band releases.

  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... Posted Aug 27 2008, 05:31 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: ASP.NET, VWD, Silverlight, Dynamic Data

• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5

  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... Posted Aug 26 2008, 01:13 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Visual Studio, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, msnow, silverlight resources, Beta 2, Mike Snow

• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 4

  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... Posted Aug 14 2008, 02:51 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Tips and Tricks, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, msnow, silverlight resources, Mike Snow

• Effects and Transitions for Silverlight

  Another installment of Silverlight.FX additions to enable creating declarative views - this time, pre-packaged, declarative effects and transitions... Read More... Posted Jul 29 2008, 11:49 PM by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog Filed under: Silverlight

• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 3

  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... Posted Jul 25 2008, 03:09 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, silverlight resources, Beta 2 Silverlight

• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 2

  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... Posted Jul 17 2008, 05:19 PM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog Filed under: Visual Studio, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, msnow, silverlight resources, Mike Snow

• Are you a Silverlight rockstar? Get a killer job.

  A great agency in Seattle, ramp group is looking for a rockstar Silverilght developer -- see JD below. Good luck! Silverlight 2 Developer Ramp Group Bellevue, WA www.rampgroup.com Key skills: .Net Framework, C#, Silverlight 2.0, XML Are you interested in working on a project which will revolutionize the advertising industry, creating market efficiencies in terms of matching publisher page inventory to advertiser demand across multiple ad networks, standardizing advertising attributes, and lowering the barriers of entry to new classes of advertising businesses? If you are a developer with a creative spirit and often have ideas for enhancing the customer experience, this is a great opportunity for you. Ramp Group is looking for .Net / Silverlight... Posted Jul 14 2008, 03:31 AM by Brian Goldfarb's Blog Filed under: ASP.NET, Misc, Silverlight

• Updated Silverlight Control Tutorial for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

  I've finally gotten the Silverlight Control tutorial sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. There have been some non-trivial changes to how controls are written between Beta 1 and Beta 2. My goals were to do more than a straight port. I wanted to take advantage of some of these changes as an example of how to use the new functionality, and I wanted to address some feedback I've gotten from the original post. Some of the ways I chose to do things in the original post were overly complicated, and I took this opportunity to streamline things a bit. The result is the same functionality with a lot less code. The major change centers around the Visual State Manager. When my team and I first started working with Silverlight, we found the... Posted Jul 09 2008, 04:13 PM by Shawn Burke's Blog Filed under: Silverlight

• Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

  DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight.  Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services.  So far the application is in WPF, but they are planning to create a Silverlight version as well.    Watch the web cast for a full demo. A few things I thought was cool: They use visual clues effectively to direct the users attention (for example per-entity model pop-ups) They multiple-module editing model.  Many records can be edited at the same time.  There is great navigation and notification support to manage all of this. Dirty tracking seems nicely done.   Billy, we are all looking forward to playing with... Posted Jul 07 2008, 11:00 AM by Brad Abrams Filed under: WPF, Silverlight