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Friday, October 31, 2008 7:14 PM

Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications

I recently helped Ashish publish a whitepaper on SEO of Silverlight Applications . The paper talks about some of the best practices for search engine optimization of Silverlight content. You can use these practices to make your Silverlight content discoverable
Posted by niravi | 2 Comments
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Friday, October 31, 2008 2:31 AM

Different kinds of controls you can make in Silverlight

Silverlight 2 gives you the ability to create your own controls. The term custom control has been thrown around a lot in the Silverlight community, but it's not always clear what that means. Here are my thoughts. There are three types of controls that
Posted by Carole Snyder | 2 Comments
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:15 PM

Check out the great new Silverlight controls and themes!

I am sure you know that the Silverlight 2 release included new controls such as ComboBox and PasswordBox . However, you might have wondered where the tree control or additional layout controls are. If you need these controls and don't have time to develop
Posted by cherylws | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:32 PM

List of Silverlight bugs and Workarounds

There are a number of bugs in Silverlight that might give you grief. I've compiled a list of some of these bugs as well as their respective workarounds here: Silverlight Bugs and Workarounds . I published this list on a blog page rather than a blog post
Posted by snoutholder | 3 Comments
Friday, October 24, 2008 9:55 PM

Loaded event timing in Silverlight

The FrameworkElement.Loaded event in Silverlight has a timing difference versus the FrameworkElement.Loaded event in WPF. Specifically, in WPF, the Loaded event will occur after the template is applied. In Silverlight, the Loaded event is not guaranteed
Posted by Wolf Schmidt [MSFT] | 3 Comments
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:12 PM

Where is the Silverlight content?

The content is there, but it turns out there is a little problem with filtering when you've integrated the Silverlight help into the Visual Studio help collection. If you set any filters for local help in Visual Studio, the Silverlight documentation is
Posted by cherylws | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:01 PM

Silverlight Tools versioning

Heads up on a possible version number misunderstanding that has been mentioned a few times already during the early days of the Silverlight 2 release. General instructions: Don't panic! Specifically: If you install the Silverlight Tools , which is the
Posted by Wolf Schmidt [MSFT] | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:28 PM

Silverlight 2 is released!

As you may have heard , Silverlight 2 is now live and ready for prime time. Check out the Get Started page over at Silverlight.net to download the SDK. The Get Started page provides links to all the tools you'll need to start developing in Silverlight.
Posted by Karl Erickson | 1 Comments
Monday, October 13, 2008 10:08 PM

Make your JavaScript Silverlight applications work with Silverlight 2

In addition to behavior changes between Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 release, there were some behavior changes that will effect Silverlight 1.0 applications when Silverlight 2 auto-updates user's computers. Check out Laurence Moroney's blog
Posted by snoutholder | 3 Comments
Friday, October 10, 2008 11:55 PM

Silverlight Breaking Changes Between Beta 2 and Release (Updated Document)

As Silverlight RC0 and release come out, you will likely run into some breaking changes in your Beta 2 or older applications. The MSDN docs and SDK that is about to release has a breaking changes doc that lists most of these changes; however, due to these
Posted by snoutholder | 12 Comments
Attachment(s): BreakingChangesBetweenBeta2andRelease.doc
Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:26 PM

Who cares about offline help, anyway?

Silverlight is a web technology, right? So is it reasonable to assume that all of you have access to the web when you are developing your Silverlight applications? One question we’re trying to answer here at Microsoft is whether anyone will even notice
Posted by wpfedevcon | 24 Comments
Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:51 AM

Silverlight RC0 Offline Documentation Download

You can get the RC0 offline docs 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. One tip: If you are running Vista you might run into an issue when
Posted by snoutholder | 2 Comments
 
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