Jeremy provides a quick walkthrough to demonstrate clean design-time view models. These are view models that provide design-time data for your application, but don’t embed that date in the final product. The release DLL and XAP files will only contain...

In 2000, Brazil based New Age Software launched its ERP application and received disappointing feedback from customers about how the front-end was time consuming to install and the interface was difficult to learn and operate. As a result, New Age Software...

Silverlight TV 70: Ever wonder how to use sockets or what they're good for? In this week’s episode of SLTV, Peter Smith of the Silverlight networking team joins John to discuss these topics and demonstrate how sockets work by using them to play...

TF1, the most popular network in France, in partnership with Microsoft and Akamai, has just published its first Windows Phone 7 application featuring Silverlight , IIS Smooth Streaming and Media Player Framework . Users in France can now download the...

Check out John Papa’s blog to watch his Silverlight bootcamp about MVVM and “Hooking Up” from MIX11. In this tutorial, John demonstrates tips on MVVM concepts and walks through designer and developer scenarios. Read full post and watch demo here: MIX11...

On 13 th April at the MIX11 conference , Scott Guthrie announced the immediate availability of the Silverlight 5 Beta. The Beta is a major step towards the final release of Silverlight 5 later this year and includes many of the features we already...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Gill Cleeren presents 'Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?' In this recorded webinar Gill discusses how to build professional LOB applications...

Silverlight TV 69: In this week’s episode of SLTV, Jobi Joy, UX Architect with IdentityMine , joins John to discuss some of the lessons his company learned while contributing to the very popular and successful IMDB and Twitter Windows Phone applications...

As we drive toward MIX, we wanted to share our thoughts on the role of plug-ins in general, and Silverlight in particular, in the context of HTML5 and the future of the web. As we have been more vocal about our commitment to and investment in HTML5 as...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Brian Noyes presents 'WCF RIA Services Validation'. In this recorded webinar Brian discusses the following topics: Quick review of the update process of WCF RIA Services...

Silverlight TV 68: In this week’s episode of SLTV, Paul Stubbs, of Sharepoint Sideshow , joins John to discuss some new features the Sharepoint team have released for Visual Studio to make Silverlight development easier. Paul walks through the new...

Do you want to deliver live video that can adapt to changing network conditions in real time? Would you like to easily broadcast live feeds to multiple screens, including iOS devices? If the answer to those questions is yes, please join us at StreamingMedia...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Gill Cleeren presents 'Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight'. In this recorded webinar Gill discusses the following topics: 1. Parts of Windows Azure 2. Why does a...

Silverlight TV 67: Recently, UX legend Bill Buxton was in town and stopped by to share what he's been up to. In this week’s episode of SLTV, Bill discusses how integrated devices with things that "just work together," UX, and touch might all be...

Are you a developer who wonders “How do we test the XAML?” Have you ever handed off XAML to a designer or another developer, who has accidentally removed a data-binding or other critical element, and then handed it back? In this week’s guest blog, Silverlight...

We are proud to announce that Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 is now available for download. LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality Silverlight business applications for the desktop and the cloud. If you are new to Visual...

Hello Silverlight Community, I am the product manager for Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™. Today, we are making Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 publicly available for download. If you are new to Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 here...

If you have trouble using bit.ly or logging on Windows Phone 7, check out this week’s episode of Silverlight TV where John Papa talks with Shawn Wildermuth about Phoney, a new Open Source Project that will be showcased at MIX11 on April 11 th ....

If you're building Silverlight 4 applications then you've more than likely heard the term "commanding" used at a talk, in a forum or in talking with a WPF or Silverlight developer. What is commanding and why should you care about it? In a nutshell...

Silverlight TV 65: Do 3D and graphics get you going? The folks at Archetype created an amazing 3D application that we first showed in the keynote at the Silverlight Firestarter in December, 2010. In this week’s episode of SLTV, Danny Riddell, CEO...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Emil Stoychev sits down with Silverlight MVP Jeremy Likness at the MVP Summit 2011 that took place in Redmond, Washington from February 28 – March 2. In this interview, Jeremy shares more...

Silverlight TV 64: In this week’s episode of SLTV, Nick Kramer of the Silverlight team joins John on Silverlight TV to discuss the application model, 64bit support, and security features with Silverlight. Nick dives into some of his favorite features...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Silverlight MVP Emil Stoychev presents 'Building Line-of-Business Applications with Silverlight and WCF Data Services'. In this recorded webinar Emil discusses the following topics: 1. WCF What...

Wondering what all the hype is about MVVM and whether or not you should integrate it into your Silverlight projects? In this post, Dan Wahlin walks through the fundamentals of what the MVVM pattern is and why you should learn more about it. Read full...

Silverlight TV 63: In this week’s episode of SLTV, the Steve Lasker of the Silverlight team joins John on Silverlight TV to discuss data and business features with Silverlight. Steve dives into some of his favorite features and shows off a great...