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Expression Studio 3 Available to All MSDN Premium Subscribers
Last week, Microsoft expanded availability for Expression Studio to all MSDN Premium subscribers with the release of Expression 3 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Previously, only subscribers at the Visual Studio Team System Team Suite with MSDN Premium Read More...
Xaml and Bing Maps – Part 2
This is the second in a two part series (link to Part 1 ) where I cover Xaml development with Bing Maps for Enterprise. In Part 2 below, I cover building this Silverlight Application. (Sample code attached to this blog post below. Please review the code Read More...
Check out the New York Times API Silverlight Toolkit
A nice blog post with links to the toolkit and background information over at the New York Times Open blog .  You can find the toolkit here created by my teammate Michael Scherotter . Read More...
Silverlight 2 for Mobile Announced at PDC
If you have been wondering about Silverlight for Mobile, watch this session. The session has a few slides up front with some commentary for a few minutes but then gets straight to some great demos and details on the future of Silverlight for Mobile. To Read More...
HostingCon 2008
I had an opportunity to attend HostingCon at the Navy Pier in Chicago this week. Microsoft was a Platinum Sponsor and had a pretty large booth that included an XBox 360 setup with Rock Band. The hosting community is a fun bunch of folks so it was a great Read More...
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 - Getting Started Quick Links
Silverlight.net has most of this content and it can be found there or through web search, but to hopefully save you time here are some quick links / tips: Where to get the tools: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ All tutorials/HOLs/Samples need Silverlight Read More...
Interesting Read on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF
Pete Brown has a great blog post here on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.  Pete makes some great points on what Silverlight 2.0 will bring to the table as well as mentioning what is available today with WPF. As Pete points out , writing applications in WPF Read More...
Silverlight + ASP.NET AJAX + WCF
I started working on a sample that demonstrated a Silverlight 1.0 application that leveraged ASP.NET AJAX to make web service calls written using WCF but like all good developers I searched the Net first to see what I could find that was useful. What Read More...
Excellent Example of how Silverlight Provides a Better Web Experience
This demonstration really shows the advantages of Silverlight over plain-ole DHTML. It provides a very smooth experience when zooming and panning by leveraging Silverlight capabilities. Read about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2007/08/21/silverlight-1-1-virtualearth-viewer.aspx Read More...
Simple Media Player in Silverlight (JavaScript and C# versions)
In my last blog post , I listed a pointer to a walkthrough to help learn Silverlight and Expression Blend located here . The walkthrough is for Silverlight 1.0, with the code in JavaScript. If you have not had a chance to play with Silverlight or Expression Read More...
Silverlight (formerly wpf/e) announced at NAB
I was going to post how excited I am to see a cool product name like Silverlight follow a somewhat confusing code name (wpf/e) but Brad Abrams beat me to it here :-). Here is a link to the press release for Silverlight. Jeff Wilcox highlights some key Read More...
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