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...