I like advanced UIs, so it’s just U and I! http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Getting-ready-for-Microsoft-Silverlight-Exam-70-506-Part-6.aspx

Deployment is serious stuff if you are in the military or a programmer, otherwise it’s just a word.  If you are in the military I have nothing to say other than to keep your batteries charged in your Nintendo when you are in transit.  For programmers...

  http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Getting-ready-for-Microsoft-Silverlight-Exam-70-506-Part-5.aspx Interacting with the host platform is a key component of the exam, and studying this carefully will help you pass the exam.

In this MSDN article HTML 5 is used to add an audio player to a web site and that web site could be yours! Start with: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/HTML5AudioXMLPlaylist/Default.html Then refer to this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library...

  http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Getting-ready-for-Microsoft-Silverlight-Exam-70-506-Part-4.aspx Data! Very important to know whether or not you are taking the exam.

I am not writing this one, Scott Guthrie wrote a series of tutorials, and as far as I can tell it works just as well with Silverlight 5, it is pretty basic and I would recommend it for anyone who is beginning in silverlight. Get started at the following...

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Getting-ready-for-Microsoft-Silverlight-Exam-70-506-Part-3.aspx What are routed events? Work through this tutorial and you will know! There will be a test!

  http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Getting-ready-for-Microsoft-Silverlight-Exam-70-506-Part-2.aspx We all like that enhanced UI, so it’s important whether or not you take the exam.

  HTML 5 is emerging as an important technology so you better learn how to use it.  If you know HTML right now, then you should know about the differences between the HTML 4 and HTML 5 because it is different. One way to do this is to use the...

  If you like to take exams, and who doesn’t? This would be a good first exam to take. To prepare (and no guaratees) zoom over to: http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Getting-ready-for-the-exams-Part-1.aspx Even if you would rather be laying out...

Dan also says the Moon is made of cheese and that HTML 5 is ready for Prime Time.  Ummm, must be reading my blogs. In this blog at: http://bit.ly/oTnlz9 , Dan answers the questions: Is Silverlight Dead? Is HTML 5 ready for prime time? But he doesn...

The blog Eternal Coding does an excellent job of comparing Silverlight 5 versus HTML 5.  Of course the boils down to XAML versus HTML 5. It is a great read, you might want to print it out and take it to the beach (I still can’t bring myself to taking...

If you are doing Silverlight you are likely thinking about HTML 5, here is a great introduction from Dan Wahlin! http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2011/05/06/getting-started-with-the-html-5-canvas.aspx Lot’s of code that work and a great way to show...

I t’s summer time, and you should be thinking: I CAN MAKE AN AWESOME Game company.  Ok, get started with Silverlight: http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/ Freaking Awesome!

Hey yo, let’s go!  Hey! Yo! Let’s! Go!  It’s time to take a look at the Imagine Cup projects and vote for the best projects!  Get involved! Save the world!  Sort of. Do it now, go to the People’s Choice award at: http://imaginecup...

What if there was an operating system that was built brand new and this O/S has an architecture that automatically utilizes multi-core and many core systems.  This could be an improvement for many of the game platforms.  In fact aging architectures...

Let’s start building a game.  Game Title: A game title is critical, this is a working title, likely to draw fire from the Angry Birds.  So in the real world I would need a plan of action if I was hit with a suit.  In this case my plan is...

HTML 5, Windows 7, Windows 2008 and future version of Windows Operating System, what is the future?  XAML, will it go away?  Should I crank down on HTML 5 and ignore Windows Presentation Foundation 4.0?  Should I buy Gold? Ok, here my blather...

You have secretly played Farmville, getting your online friends to join you in the game (making sure that your real physical friends don’t know you are addicted to Farmville).  Or you play Mafia Wars.  More likely though, you play the poker...