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Friday, June 27, 2008 6:15 PM

"Look What You Can Do with Silveright 2" Part 6: Adaptive Streaming and More

The last part of webcast series didn't focus specifically on one facet of Silverlight 2, but rather highlighted various aspects: media improvements Adaptive Streaming, Server-side playlists, DRM, Accessibility and UI Automation, OpenFileDialog, Isolated
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:40 PM

"Look What You Can Do with Silveright 2" Part 5: Testing Framework

In the fifth part of our series, we examined Unit Testing in Silverlight 2. Not only did we release the source code to many Silverlight 2 controls, we shipped over 1500 unit tests that target them. We also shipped a very robust Silverlight Testing Framework
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Attachment(s): Part5.zip
Monday, June 23, 2008 12:19 PM

"Look What You Can Do with Silveright 2" Part 4: Web Services Support

Today we discussed consuming Web Services in our Silverlight 2 applications using ASMX Web Services, WCF Services and REST. This webcast was based on a blogpost by Tim Heuer . The attached code is modified from his source code to work with Silverlight
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Attachment(s): Part4.zip
Monday, June 23, 2008 9:43 AM

Ooooh looky, XNA on CNN.

We all have our start-up routines, the boot order we go through as we sit down at our computer in the morning. Mine includes reading CNN.com. Today, one of the headlines in the Tech section caught my eye, "Indie video game designers break through". I
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Friday, June 20, 2008 2:08 PM

"Look What You Can Do with Silveright 2" Part 3: Introducing Deep Zoom

Today we covered Deep Zoom, based on Seadragon technology, which allows the users of our Silverlight application to navigate large amounts of visual information (images) regardless of the size of data and bandwidth available for downloading it. A really
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:33 PM

"Look What You Can Do with Silveright 2" Part 2: WPF UI Framework Continued

Today we continued our discussion on why I love Silverlight 2 by examining Layout Managment using Grid, StackPanel and Canvas. We also took a look at binding controls to data ( see Jesse Libery's video ) and styling/skinning controls. Attached is the
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Attachment(s): Part2.zip
Monday, June 16, 2008 3:16 PM

"Look What You Can Do with Silveright 2" Part 1: Overview of Silverlight 2 and WPF UI Framework

Today we went over the architecture of Silverlight, the new features in Silverlight 2 and started our discussion in the WPF UI Framework. We took a look at creating a Silverlight app in Expression Blend and VS2008. Attached to this post is the code.
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Attachment(s): Part1.zip
 
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