Pete Brown reveals his MSDN Silverlight Facebook Application called MSDN East Coast News. "It is an app which serves three main goals: Showcase what your local east coast evangelists have been blogging about, and the events they have planned; Show Silverlight combined with Facebook and Get Silverlight on more desktops" Pete explains.
Shawn Wildermuth introduced his Dirty Little Secrets - 10-15 min screencasts on different topics from Silverlight like data access, software design and anything that might help the Silverlight developers. Sounds cool, right! And here it is the Episode 1 - how to create a Slide-Out Panel in Silverlight 2.
Jesse Liberty announced the results from his What topics are important to you? survey. "It was extremely helpful to me in planning the videos, tutorials and blog posts I'll be creating in coming months." - he said. The survey is still open so you can participate here.
Article Series: Developing a Casual Game with Silverlight 2 - a six series explaining in details different aspects of making games. The first one is already available. Here is the list of all modules covered:
- Module 1: Getting Started – Architecture / framework
- Module 2: Movement and collision detection
- Module 3: Design – Sprites, boards and dialogs
- Module 4: Animations and sound
- Module 5: Initialization and Deployment
- Module 6: Advanced concepts (Physics, Multiplayer, Optimization)
Don't miss the new demo from Telerik - the JobBoard application. It is based on their own Silverlight controls and it looks really nice and functional. Waiting to see more controls from them soon.
Shine Draw continues his series of tips Flash vs. Silverlight. Check the Image Advance Carousel and Colorful Fireworks again implemented in both platforms. Source code is also include as always.
In Silverlight and WPF - Sharing Library Projects Mike Taulty demonstrates how to share a library projects between Silverlight and WPF.
Bill Reiss working hard on some cool text stuff. See a demo of what he's doing here. He promised to put all this in CodePlex so be ready for some goodies.
Mike Snows with two tips: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services and Making it Snow in Silverlight.
Mountain Pass Tower Defense! is a really cool Silverlight game. So, build your own defense system and Kill 'Em all....
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