Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

  I had a great time discussing Silverlight with Craig Shoemaker on his PodCast Pixel8.   Craig is a terrific interviewer; well informed, passionate, smart, Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider, developer, podcaster, blogger, co-author of Beginning ASP.NET with AJAX,  and very … Continue reading →

I’m very proud and excited to announce that I’ve been invited to be a monthly guest on the Sparkling Client Silverlight Podcast. Details to follow very soon, but our initial shows include a discussion of Templates on September 23rd and … Continue reading →

Due to a family emergency I had to postpone today’s Webcast, and I apologize for the inconvenience. I did want to assure you that we have already rescheduled, that we will record the Webcast,  and that I will be recording … Continue reading →

I’m very pleased to announce that the Silverlight Tutorials are now available in Japanese with more on the way soon.  (All tutorials in VB and C# soon as well)   -Jesse

A personal note on two threads coming together. In 2004 I watched Senator Barack Obama give the Keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention and two weeks later I placed an Obama for President bumper sticker on my car that … Continue reading →

Back in June I posted a blog entry on how to get started with Silverlight; it seems it is time to update that as the world changes very quickly and we have many new resources. Each of us has our … Continue reading →

I’m incredibly pleased to say that we have implemented a comments section for each tutorial, just as we do for each video Please leave your comments and I will subscribe to the comments list and try to respond as quickly … Continue reading →

In much of the writing about animation in Silverlight, one question that seems to  recur is this: why bother with a linear key-frame animation if it is less intuitive and more complex than a simple from-to animation Let’s back up … Continue reading →

I haven’t really written much about transforms in a long while. We looked at them in depth during the Silverlight 1.0 time frame and then more or less took them for granted ever since. A Transform is just a change … Continue reading →

When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words … Continue reading →

I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce we’ve posted three new videos: Graphics and Brushes (never hurts to “brush up” on the fundamentals and I try to bring together what we were doing in 1.0 with what Blend brings to the party. Using … Continue reading →