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Silverlight Does Steely Dan
22 October 07 09:41 AM
Carl Franklin , the master mind behind .NET Rocks and long time Visual Basic guru, is also an AMAZING musician and has put together this entire (re)production of Steely Dan's "Home at Last" in Silverlight . Carl recorded each track himself, including Read More...
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Spelunking the DOM with Silverlight 1.1
11 October 07 10:47 AM
If you missed it, earlier this week we posted Rod Paddock's followup article on Silverlight onto the Visual Basic Developer Center . In this article Rod walks us through creating and calling a web service in Silverlight 1.1 clients. If you're just getting Read More...
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Amanda Silver will be Presenting VB and Silverlight on Second Life!
30 July 07 11:24 AM
If you haven't seen or experienced Second Life it's pretty amazing. It's an online, 3D, digital world. Visual Studio has created an island where you can come listen to live Microsoft presenters in this virtual world's live presentation theater! Amanda Read More...
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Siverlight Javascript Compiler Written in VB.NET
25 May 07 03:40 PM
Paul posted an interesting tid-bit of news yesterday if you missed it, yes it's true, the JavaScript compiler they wrote for Silverlight 1.1 is written in Visual Basic! Score for the home team! :-) Read More...
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The Future of Visual Basic
14 May 07 10:36 AM
I'm here at DevTeach in beautiful Montreal ! And man, what great weather they are having so far. I'm in a t-shirt overlooking the Cathedrale Marie-Reine-Du-Monde and Dorchester Square. I just arrived last night and the pre-conference sessions are already Read More...
Go Into the (silver)Light, Carol Ann!....
10 May 07 04:05 PM
Are you confused about what Silverlight is and why everybody is talking about it like it will solve world hunger? Do you think the DLR is a new car by Acura? Then come see me give a FUNdamentals introduction to Silverlight tonight at the EastBay.NET UG Read More...
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Playing with Silverlight on the Mac
05 May 07 07:28 PM
So I'm here at my mom's house and we're writing our first Silverlight 1.1 application with Visual Basic. I have a Lenovo laptop running Vista and Virtual PC 2007 and she has a MacBook Pro. I was heading over today for dinner so I thought it would be the Read More...
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Visual Basic running on a Mac! Seriously.
01 May 07 02:49 PM
Have you ever dreamed of writing Visual Basic code that ran cross-platform AND cross-browser? Well wake up from your dream because last night at MIX Microsoft announced Silverlight 1.1 which includes a version of the .NET framework and the Visual Basic Read More...
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