February, 2011

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...

The Mono® Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, announced the preview availability of Moonlight™ 4, an open source Linux implementation of Silverlight. The release gives Firefox and Google Chrome users on Linux access to the...

OData (Open Data Protocol) is a web protocol for querying and updating data build upon web technologies such as HTTP, AtomPub and JSON. OData can be used to expose and access data from a several types of data sources. This post will show how to expose...

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) is a pattern that is popular in Silverlight applications because it specifically addresses the power of data-binding and allows for a clean separation between presentation and business logic. There is a common misconception...

Silverlight provides several different options for validating data. In this post, Dan Wahlin focuses on one of the options related to IDataErrorInfo and shows how the interface can be implemented by classes to support validation and allow Silverlight...

The Silverlight team is pleased to announce that the Silverlight 4 GDR3 is now live on Microsoft Update and Microsoft.com . Users will get the update when performing update scans over the coming weeks and all install redirections from websites that feature...

Microsoft MVP Kunal Chowdhury provides step-by step instruction on how to pin/unpin any Windows application to the Windows 7 taskbar directly from a Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application. Read Full Post: Interoperability with Windows 7 Taskbar using...

Are you still using Windows Media Encoder? Are you unfamiliar with Microsoft’s next generation media technologies? If so, then please join us for a Streaming Media webinar, “Migrating from Windows Media Encoder to Expression Encoder,”...

Enterprise video is increasingly being recognized by industry experts, such as Gartner, as an important strategic technology. Accordingly, the Expression Encoder and IIS Media Services Team attended the new Business Video Expo, part of ITEXPO East 2011...

Silverlight TV 61: Thinking about writing a touch intensive Windows Phone 7 application? In this week’s episode of SLTV, David Kelley of Wirestone shares his experience in creating rich experiences with Silverlight. David has been involved with...

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...

Silverlight TV 60: Did you ever want to write a game with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? In this week’s episode of SLTV, Ryan Plemons, Senior Developer with Terralever , shares his journey in optimizing the Silverlight based Zero Gravity game...

Silverlight TV 62: In this week’s episode of SLTV, the Silverlight 5 Triad joins John on Silverlight TV to discuss their Silverlight 5 roles, some ways they receive feedback from customers, how they interact with each other, and to talk about some...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Telerik Windows Phone Evangelist Evan Hutnick explains how you can start utilizing the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 in your mobile Silverlight applications today. See how the RadAnimation...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Brian Noyes presents ‘Querying & Updating Data from Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services'. In this recorded webinar Brian discusses the following topics...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Gill Cleeren presents ‘Build a Silverlight 4 Application end-to-end’. In this recorded webinar Gill discusses the following topics: Building the...