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I came across SilverlightShow this morning. It's an independent Silverlight community, and the goal of the site is to "help Silverlight developers to find solutions to common problems, to stay up-to-date with the latest news , to learn the best practices
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This is the last Silverlight user group meeting of the year. Hope to see you all there! Time: 6:30PM, Tuesday December 2nd, 2008. Location : MSN Office Downtown Toronto, 222 Bay St. Toronto, ON Agenda : 6:30 – 7:30: Animations and Databinding in
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Earlier this week, we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2 ! This is an important milestone for us in terms of providing rich media and interactive experiences on the web. Scott Guthrie has a very comprehensive blog post on the improvements of Silverlight
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Now the words are out about TechDays and the first stop at Toronto is just around the corner. I'm really excited about the conference because I took up an exciting challenge for myself as a presenter at the Wed Developer track. The challenge has two favors...
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Late last week, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 2 Release Candidate . This is pretty exciting news as it represents a significant milestone towards the go-live of Silverlight 2. The RC release of Silverlight 2 represents a
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Back in April Qixing wrote a post about how Deep Zoom could provide an innovative way to present slides. Apparently others have found this idea interesting as well as the Microsoft Office Labs team in Redmond has released a plug-in called pptPlex
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One of our great partners out of Quebec, RunAtServer Consulting , has just created a great, three-day course on Silverlight 2 and they will be conducting it in various cities in Quebec. The details of the course can be found here and here , but it is
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This is it! Day 5 was the last day of our training, and we were scheduled to present our project at 3:30 in the afternoon. The atmosphere in the training room was very intense, and nobody felt there was enough time. From the design side, I needed to restyle
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Day 4 involves a lot of hard work (9 am - 12 am). It feels like the crunch time before final projects back in grad school. At the start of the day, we reviewed each other's progress and decided the underlying messaging framework for two Silverlight
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John and I started parallel working in Day 3 and chatted back and forth on each other's progress using Office Communicator . On the Design side , I first focused on creating graphical elements in Expression Design. For each of our application scenario:
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Last Friday, we released both Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview . This was a major milestone for us. Many features people were asking for in Silverlight and Expression Blend at last week's Silverlight User
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Following my post on Silverlight 2 resource , here's a list of Silverlight 2 "How-Do-I" videos that have been added to Silverlight.net . 1: Using the Silverlight 2 Canvas (35 minutes, 42 seconds) 2: Using Silverlight 2 Grids
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Woodgroove Financial online demonstrator has been gaining quite a bit popularity within the financial industry to show what future rich interactive web banking applications could be like. I decided to talk to the architects behind the inspirational demo:
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DevTeach 2008 is coming to Toronto. What: Building Next-Generation, Business-Oriented, Rich Internet Applications using Silverlight 2.0 Cost: 399.00$ CDN Make plans to stay an extra day after the conference to take advantage of this opportunity to join
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One of the first and most common questions I get about Silverlight is "how does Silverlight compare to Adobe Flash and AiR?" Although I wrote a post last year talked about Flash vs. Silverlight, with Silverlight 2 Beta release last month and
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