Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

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I’m about to release a tutorial and a few videos on Styles and Templates. To set the stage, I wanted to discuss one aspect of templating in Silverlight that is in some ways revolutionary. The designers of the Silverlight 2 … Continue reading →

They went away this week (visiting my in-laws) and I stayed home to catch up on videos, tutorials and etc.  I’m not quite sure I realized how much time I was spending in front of the computer – nor how … Continue reading →

[Updated 7/3] If you are using Camtasia (wonderful product) to create your screen captures and you do a lot of editing (especially zooms and call outs and cuts) you run the risk of overloading the project and causing Camtasia to … Continue reading →

Another in a series of ruminations about how to Present Silverlight. One of the brighter Silverlight coders and MVPs asked me tonight “what is all this about your changing how you present at conferences and web casts.”  In answering him, … Continue reading →

  David Silverlight (isn’t that the second best name you’ve ever heard?) runs Community Credit whose slogan is “We give stupid prizes to smart people.”  The idea is to recognize and reward folks for participating in the geek community, and … Continue reading →

Wow it is hard to respond to a community that you can’t see or poll and that is shifting by the day. Take this question, just for a moment: at what level should we be targeting our web-cast presentations? They … Continue reading →

SilverlightShow is featuring a brilliant Twitter tool written by Emil Stoychev that you can download here – you can grab the HTML or you can download the source. If you just get the HTML and plop it into your blog … Continue reading →

When you work in public, and you invite people to tell you what they think, they will. It often isn’t pretty, but you better listen up. My previous posting elicited an email (name withheld since it was an email and … Continue reading →

    Every day (honest) I am asked for a path through the learning material, even though the Getting Started page offers an explicit path. And that is not surprising. We all have our own way of learning. Here is … Continue reading →