Silverlight Tips of the Day

Silverlight Tip of the Day #8 - Silverlight Blogs and Resources

[Blog Mirrored from http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx]

The following is my list of Silverlight Resources including blogs, tutorials and more. If you know of any other good ones please let me know as I will keep this list updated on a regular basis.

Install The Latest Version of Silverlight with Silverlight Tools

• Silverlight Tools RTM: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en

Getting Started

• Main Site: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ 
• First Look at Silverlight: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx
• Tutorials: http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx
• MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404700(VS.95).aspx 
• Architecture: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404700(VS.95).aspx

Silverlight Blogs

• Alvin Ashcraft: http://www.alvinashcraft.com/
• Bill Reiss: http://www.bluerosegames.com/SilverlightBrassTacks/
• Brad Adams: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/
• Dan Wahlin: http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/default.aspx
• Dave Relyea - http://blogs.msdn.com/DevDave
• Delay: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/
• Einar Ingebrigtsen: http://www.ingebrigtsen.info
• Jeff Paries: http://designwithsilverlight.com/
• Jessie Liberty: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/
• Joe Stegman: http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/default.aspx
• Karen Corby: http://scorbs.com/
• Laurence Moroney: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/default.aspx
• Michael Palermo: http://weblogs.asp.net/palermo4/default.aspx
• Michael Sync: http://michaelsync.net/
• Neo: http://www.silverlightexamples.net/
• Nikhil Kothari: http://www.nikhilk.net
• Nikola: http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/default.aspx  and http://www.nokola.com/
• Peter Blois: http://www.blois.us/blog/
• Pete Brown: http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/default.aspx
• Seema Ramchandani: http://blogs.msdn.com/seema 
• Scott Guthrie: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx
• Synergist: http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/
• SDK Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/
• The MossyBlog Times: http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/
• Tim Sneath: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/
• Tim Heuer: http://timheuer.com/blog/
• VectorForm: http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/
• Web Services Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlightws
• Wilco Bauwer: http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/Silverlight.aspx

Other Silverlight Sites (Daily Silverlight Links, etc)

• http://www.silverlightshow.net/
• http://www.silverlightcream.com/
• http://mgalinks.wordpress.com/
• http://www.shinedraw.com/
• http://flexria.wordpress.com/category/silverlight/

Miscellaneous Topics of Interest for Silverlight

3D Engines:

1. Kit3d: http://www.codeplex.com/Kit3D
2. Balder 3D Engine: http://www.codeplex.com/Balder (Blog: http://www.dolittle.com/blogs/einar)

Game Programming:                     

• Silverlight Games 101 by Bill Reiss
• Refactor by Joel Neubeck.
• Silverlight Game Programming Tutorial by Matthew Casperson
• 2D Game Development by Mike Gold.
• Andy Beaulieu
• Silverlight Games by Roger Guess
• Developer Fusion

Secure Password sending: http://dnnsilverlight.adefwebserver.com/Samples/SilverlightXAML/tabid/56/Default.aspx
Silverlight Nuggets: http://silverlightnuggets.com/
Sockets: http://www.flawlesscode.com/
Web Services: http://dnnsilverlight.adefwebserver.com/Silverlight20/SilverlightWebservice/tabid/66/Default.aspx

Is your site not listed? Post a comment here and I will add it if it’s Silverlight focused!

Thank you,
--Mike Snow

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