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What I’m Thinking About April

I've been getting a lot of mail on the lines of "When will we have Beta 2?" or "what is the release date for Silverlight" and since I can't answer those questions, and since I know that folks need to … Continue reading

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Did You Know… You Can Create A Silverlight Streaming Application in Minutes?

Three are many details to creating a Silverlight Streaming application, but in this post I'm going to try to boil them down to a recipe for fast success.  1. Create an account for yourself on the Silverlight Wiidows Live (alpaha) … Continue reading

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Linq and Lamda Expressions – How do you pronounce => ?

I believe it is a major stumbling block, when learning new technology, if you can’t say the syntax “out loud in your head.” — that is if you can’t read the code to yourself in a way that you can … Continue reading

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Did You Know… (2) you can easily re-format your code and XAML in Visual Studio

You might begin by opening the tools menu and selecting options followed by text editor. For each language, especially JavaScript and HTML and C# pay special attention to "new lines", the format choice (including insert attribute value quotes when typing), … Continue reading

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The Great Asynchronous Learning Experiment – Day 6

[Updated 11:50pm 9/11 to make this a bit more readable]  As you may know, I've become very interested in the idea of hypervideo. In my first HDI video on HyperVideo I hard coded the links to the markers in the movie … Continue reading

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What Skills Do You Need *Before* Learning Silverlight

Shadowman (is that his real name? Is Silverlight Geek mine?), asked the following in a comment connected to a previous blog entry: "What skills should a developer have before learning Silverlight?  In other words, should someone new to Silverlight be … Continue reading

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