Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

  In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom … Continue reading →

Today I had the pleasure of presenting a web cast on building an application with more than one page and passing data among those pages. I have 2 videos on this topic, so if you missed the web cast and … Continue reading →

A quick note to thank so many of you for your excellent suggestions. The following topics are definitely on my list (though not yet in any particular order) and I have quite a few more to look into:   Creating … Continue reading →

The next phase of my Silverlight Tutorials will concentrate on more advanced topics. I’d like to invite you to tell me what topics you’d like to see covered; what is most pressing, most confusing or least accessible?  Feel free to … Continue reading →

  I recently finished Part 2 of Page Switching in which I demonstrate how to pass parameters between Silverlight pages (this video is in production and should be available soon.) A reader asked if I could provide the essential information, … Continue reading →

  I normally do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon, I thought it reasonable to mention that it is … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce the release of what may be one of the most unusual books I’ve ever written, Programming .NET 3.5 Briefly, it was our theory; generated long before I started work at Microsoft, that while there was good … Continue reading →

I just released Learning ASP.NET 3.5 which is very exciting, through I must quickly and freely admit that my co-authors did a fantastic job shouldering the bulk of the task of the massive re-write to bring this book fully up … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code.   This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding … Continue reading →

There is a posting going around about how some part(s) of Microsoft are using Flash or some other not-Silverlight technology and how even Microsoft doesn’t believe in Silverlight, blah blah blah.  I’ll leave it to people who have investigated and … Continue reading →

Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I’ve been plagued by crashes, and it turns out that TechSmith, the wonderfully responsive folks … Continue reading →

A brief review of the Silverlight Twitter blogs I’m following or using… SilverlightNews – very popular and closely connected with one of the premier Silverlight aggregators: Silverlight Cream. Silverlight Events with a Twitter feed and a web page all managed … Continue reading →