So in case you are in the habit of navigating the MSDN table of contents to locate the Silverlight content, you should know that the Silverlight node has moved out of the Web Development node, to the .NET Development node. We thought this was a more intuitive...

So as these things usually go, while doing something completely unrelated to the application I recently built, I found another way to load static XML content into your Silverlight/Windows Phone application. Instead of adding a file and setting its Build...

Ach du Lieber is an expression in German. It's what you say when you can't believe something really lame has just happened, usually to you. Something like, you are trying to set up your Silverlight application for proper localization, but you keep running into gotchas that you really would have been expected to have been dealt with better by your development process, and your toolset in particular. This blog post runs through some of these localization gotchas. And, because I'm a nice guy who doesn't want everyone to share ALL my pain, it also includes a gotcha-avoiding checklist for localizing XAML in applications.

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There's a new Silverlight Visual Effects QuickStart that was just published. This offers quick instructions on how to add visual effects like drop shadows, mirror images, and blurs to your Silverlight content.

Recently, there was an article in EWeek about the various platforms for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, including Silverlight. It was an interesting article but one thing I found a bit worrisome is the author’s conclusion that Adobe has put...

Hot off the press QuickStart on WCF RIA Services . Lots of screenshots and code. Should be pretty tasty.

Accessibility is about making your applications usable by people with limitations that prevent or impede the use of conventional user interfaces (UIs). Karl Erickson just wrote a QuickStart with a bunch of tips to help you make your apps more accessible...