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I sat down with John Papa to record two Silverlight for Windows Phone videos at MIX. Check them out: Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

The slides and demos from my MIX10 session "Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight" can be found here . This package includes the following: · Sildes · .snippet files · Projects o BrowserAndPhone – A VS 2010 project that includes...

Big thanks to Mark Reynolds of Techsys Business Solutions who did most of the heavy lifting for this port. I made one additional change to get the slide thumbnails working since the usage pattern for WritableBitmap changed since the beta. The new code...

The MIX team works fast. The video recording of my talk is already published. Slides - Launches slide deck in Slidentity Demos Video

I’ve been working on Silverlight 3 since July of last year, when we started planning the key features in the release. It’s really exciting to have the blog ban lifted and be able to talk about the new functionality of the platform as well as show off...

If You Want To Develop Silverlight 3 Apps Dev Runtime, SDK and Tools Blend 3 Preview Silverlight 3 Toolkit .NET RIA Services If You Want To Run Silverlight 3 Apps Windows Developer Runtime Mac Developer Runtime

As Tim blogged about earlier this morning , last weekend we released a new update to SL 1. This update addresses top customer issues and includes the following list of fixes: Reduced power consumption PCM is used for audio (Fixes this issue...

Joe Stegman and I are giving a two part, back to back talk titled Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 at MIX today. In this talk, Joe and I are building a video search site. I've put up the demos and slides from my part of...

As a few folks have noticed , the Silverlight Essential Training I recorded for Lynda.com is available free on Lynda's site . 4.5 hours of video training on Silverlight v1.0, 100% free. You can watch all the videos and download the exercise files free...

In the midst of all the work our team has been cranking on for Silverlight v1.1 (controls, databinding, layout, templates, styling and a package based app model, phew!), we've also been working with customers to address the top set of issues folks have...

The folks at Netika who created a set of UI controls for Silverlight v1.1 have taken those controls and built an app that mimics some PowerPoint 2003 functionality. More information and source code is available on the Netika blog . Click the image below...

Microsoft is releasing the source to the .NET Base Class Libraries as well as the top three presentation technologies in the framework, ASP.NET, Windows Forms and WPF. This is huge. I’ve been on the Silverlight team for about two years and most...

MSN's new Election '08 site is using Silverlight and Live Search to display candidate information organized by issues. Its a very efficient way to navigate this information. Click the image below to visit the MSN Election '08 page.

The good folks at Jackson Fish have built a very slick Silverlight front end for Live Search called Tafiti . Tafiti lets you search the web, blog feeds, images, books and news. It also has deep linking support so that you can drive it to specific queries...

Another very polished Silverlight application was launched recently. It aggregates new feeds and music videos in a very slick user experience. For instance, if you click the login button, the background is dimmed and the media is paused as the login UI...

MLB.com has just launched a Silverlight based video player as a companion for articles. Click the image below to see an article using the new Silverlight player.

We’ve been working like mad to get Silverlight v1.0 ready to ship. We’ve improved perf, added a small set of features and fixed over 600 bugs since the MIX ’07 beta was released. The RC will be publically available very soon, but to prepare, Tim Sneath...

The team has been obscenely busy shipping Silverlight v1.0 and working on Silverlight v1.1 so I haven't had much chance to post lately, but this stopped me in my tracks. Via Tim's blog I saw this implementation of Windows Forms on top of Silverlight by...

For the few folks who don't know, Dave Campbell is a very prolific Silverlight blogger and frequent poster to the Silverlight.net forums. Dave has a collection of two dozen (and growing) Silverlight samples with in-depth walkthoughs and code explaining...

Last year (well, really early this year), Scott created a version of Conway's game of life in Silverlight . Now he's created a physics simulation of a swinging rope using an algorithm he picked up from Gamasutra . Note that this sample is written using...

Chris Cavanagh , physics modeler extraordinaire , has created a Silverlight based physics modeler . This is a fun sample to play with but I noticed in his blog post that he's using the HtmlTimer. This class is a wrapper on the javascript setInterval method...

David Anson has created an XPS viewer using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. This app is a very cool idea and really highlights the possibilities of the XAML ecosystem. David's blog post has more information on how this app was created and he's also posted...

Jeff has been working to build an ASP.NET 2.0 sample app to search and index comic books called MyComix. The design for this was done by Kevin Goldman . Recently Jeff added a Silverlight based cover viewer for each comic that lets you flip the book over...

Ernie has created a Silverlight plug-in for Lutz Roeder’s Reflector . Reflector can already be used to view Silverlight v1.1 CLR assemblies, but this plug-in enables you to look at the code for any Silverlight app (managed or javascript) simply by providing...

Dave has put together a great set of Silverlight controls written in C# that include layout containers a textbox with text selection. The controls in the package are: Layout framework LayoutControl and LayoutContainerControl base control...