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...

So if I use the word excellent in the title that usually means that I am NOT talking about my blog.  Follow this link to a great tutorial on using 2D physics in Silverlight: http://www.ashishware.com/Silverlight_Physics.shtml The simple game of pushing...

Many game types use drag and drop, shape selection, memory, as well as other learning games, also other games use drag and drop to allow purchases of powers, power-ups, etc.  Here is a simple process of dragging and dropping.  It is presented...

A paper that was just posted comparing Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 has just been posted: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2011/06/13/html-5-vs-silverlight-5.aspx Nicely done, and saves me from doing the same thing.  It is definitely worth...

Wow, check out this sample of a 3-D realtime engine.  This is just freaking awesome! http://babylontoolkit.codeplex.com/ Download this immediately, that is if you are experimenting with Silverlight 5.  Otherwise, ignore it! It contains (and...

This is a long video, and if you are good at speaking and listening to English, then consider download the WMV and speeding it up to 1.4, I find that I pay more attention to videos when I do that: To get to the links for the WMV: http://files.ch9.ms/mix...

First order of business, begging you to sign up for the free Azure 30 Day pass: PLEEEZE sign up for the Azure Free Pass, using one of those free LiveIds you can get, no credit card required. Make something useful or clever, get promoted. Go on, do it...

So you want to be about to count your clicks, you can now in Silverlight 5! This means that for old people who I know always do that double click thing, so now you can make stuff just for them. Someone beat me to doing a short video, below, nice job...

My manager would really like for you to use this free Azure Account.  Seriously.  No credit card required, just an email. There are other managers looking for you to use this offer: The one that is going to hire you. Microsoft is offering free...

What is new in Silverlight 5? XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse Double (and multi) click support GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API Low-latency sound effects and WAV...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has 3 classes that allow you to use multimedia in your applications. The classes are: Soundplayer: Lightweight and easy to use, will run on Windows XP MediaPlayer: No visual interface, cannot display videos...