Chris Koenig talks about his presentation at the OKC Developer Group meetings. His topic was Reach End Users With Next Generation Web Apps. Except the advancements in VisualStudio 2008 and .NET 3.5 he also refers to Ajax and Silverlight. In his post you can find his presentation and the source code of his demo.
Shawn Wildermuth shares some interesting thoughts about the Flash-Silverlight topic regarding the NBC and the streaming of the NFL games.
Here is another great tip from Mike Snows under the number 37. This time Mike shows how to dynamically load and display Silverlight applications.
John Papa wrote a little tip about LINQ to XML and values checking.
There are already some libraries for Silverlight effects. Tim Heuer highlights two of them - the first one is SvLite Effects from Cellbi and the second one - Silverlight.FX from Nikhil. A really great reference by Tim!
Tim Heuer discuss some very interesting examples of the Surface tehcnology and the Surface SDK in his post Some cool Surface examples.
Here is one more tip. This time it's from the DevCorner's blog and it's about how to define control style dynamically.
Silverlight 2 - Binding Images to Uri's - A very useful post by Mike Taulty about binding the Image's Source property to an Uri.
Deep Zoom Developer Resources - The Expression Blend team has referenced some of the documentation, that will be exceptionally useful for everyone that has entered the DeepZoom quest.
Project Rosetta? That's a web site that shows you how to take advantage of skills you have already developed and used in Flash and build Silverlight applications. There will be articles and tutorials that will help you doing this. For more information check out the post of Adam Kinney Project Rosetta, From Flash to Silverlight or visit the official site ProjectRosetta.com.
Soon we will enjoy the H.264 and AAC support in Silverlight! More about this you can learn from the post of Tim Heuer - H.264 and AAC support coming to Silverlight.
Flash vs Silverlight: Random Expand Rotator - Another effect done in both Silverlight and Flash by ShineDraw.
Take a look at this custom Slider control made by Corey Schuman. There is also a source code available!
Create a Simple Progress Bar Control In Silverlight 2 - A nice step by step article about how to create a custom progress bar control in Silverlight 2 Beat 2.
The registration for the Day of Silverlight 2 is now open. The event will be held in the Microsoft office in Tampa, Florida. For more information check out the post of John Papa.
The Silverlight: Write and Win contest is in progress, participate by writing an article or by submitting it to SilverlightShow from your blog in few easy steps as explained in ‘Submit Article Directly from Your Blog’. And here is one more article that was submitted today. It's form Matthew Serbinski and it's called Silverlight and Drupal: Popular Content.
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