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Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:05 PM

Tips and Tricks for searching for Silverlight content on MSDN

Because of the nature of Silverlight 2's API library, and its relationship with the APIs in the .NET Framework, finding content in the MSDN library using Search can be frustrating. (Even more frustrating than usual, that is :-P ) Following are some tips
Posted by wpfedevcon | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:11 PM

WatermarkedTextBox Control Removed for Beta 2

Just a quick note that one of the breaking changes from beta 2 was that the WatermarkedTextBox control was removed. To find out why and how to work around this breaking change, check out Kathy Kam's blog WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 . -
Posted by wpfedevcon | 0 Comments
Monday, June 09, 2008 6:34 PM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Offline Docs (get 'em)

You want to get a CHM file of all the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 MSDN docs? Get it here . Using this file you don't have to deal with the delay of online browsing and when you do a search, you are only searching in Silverlight content. Note that these docs
Posted by wpfedevcon | 0 Comments
Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:18 PM

Silverlight 2, Beta 2 is here!

Check out the Silverlight page on Microsoft.com for install links and Silverlight.net for quickstarts, videos, tutorials, forums and links to the documentation. If you want to go straight to the documentation, find it here: Silverlight Documentation .
Posted by wpfedevcon | 0 Comments
Friday, June 06, 2008 11:16 PM

DataGrid Control Beta 2 Changes

The DataGrid Beta 2 breaking change list came in a bit too late to make the official documentation . We'll add that for the next doc refresh, but until then, you can see the DataGrid-only breaking changes list here , or the complete, updated list of all
Posted by wpfedevcon | 7 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:54 PM

Breaking Changes for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (corrections and additions)

With Silverlight 2 Beta 2 coming out there were a number of changes that will break applications written for older builds of Silverlight. We published a document that listed these changes and how to fix them ( Breaking Changes Between Beta 1 and Beta
Posted by wpfedevcon | 12 Comments
Attachment(s): UpdatedBreakingChangesWord97to2003.doc
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:33 PM

What's new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2?

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 includes a number of incremental improvements based on customer feedback. Changes include improvements to controls, templating, Deep Zoom, performance, further compatibility with WPF, and much more. For a full list of changes, see
Posted by wpfedevcon | 27 Comments
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:55 PM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Releasing Soon!

Well, the news is out. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will release sometime later this week. There are many new features and changes from Beta 1. Since I document many of the controls and oversee the control overview material, I'll tell you about some of the product
Posted by wpfedevcon | 15 Comments
 
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