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Tip of the Day – Routed Events

Source Code A routed event is is bubbled up the user interface tree whether or not it is handled by the object that receives the event. For example, if we return to a previous example in which we had a … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day – Great Silverlight Programmer utilities

Personally, one of the reasons that I opted to move to Microsoft tools long ago  was I got tired of LightSpeed telling me that the problem was the debugger and Periscope telling me it was the editor, and XYWrite telling … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day: How the Silverlight Videos Are Made

Creating A How Do I Video – Step By Step Let me bring you behind the scenes and tell you how I create a video. I'm very open to suggestions, but remember that my goal is to create great videos … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day: Core Silverlight Presentations From Mix08 – Part 1

Amazingly, all of the Mix sessions will be available online, absolutely free.  What follows is, in my personal opinion, the core presentations on Silverlight 2 that are currently posted. More are on the way but these three will get you … Continue reading →

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Silverlight 2 Tutorials – Source Code

"Why are you showing images of the source – I can't copy and paste!" I've received a number of emails asking this question and I have a number of answers <smile> After a lot of experimentation, I'm convinced that images … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day: Tutorial Image Distortion and what You and I can Do

Some of the images in the Silverlight 2 Tutorials are not what you or I would hope for.  There is no excuse, but there is an explanation and a work around, and a fix going forward. The explanation It was … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day: Silverlight 2 Videos and Tutorials Available

Updated 18:33 Pacific time (UTC -8). Even as Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 2, Beta 1, we also posted and made available the first of the new Silverlight 2 How Do I videos and the first of the … Continue reading →

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Mix08: Silverlight and the Olympics

1200 Hours on 5 broadcast channels. 2200 Hours live on line for 17 days. Then all of it, video-on-demand – Interactive & Immersive.   Demo shows high quality video connected to data – who are the players, what are their … Continue reading →

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Blogging from the Mix08 Keynote

Background: Last year Mix07 was my first exposure to Silverlight – followed by a personal decision to create a bushiness based on Silverlight, followed by new joining Microsoft. So I am incredibly psyched to be back. Add to that getting … Continue reading →

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Scott Guthrie

My first posting of the Road Map to the Silverlight 2 Tutorials was linked to an earlier draft, which is why it was taken down (these things happen). Unfortunately, RSS being what it is; before one can sat "Stop the … Continue reading →

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Silverlight 2 Tip of the Day is Back – Tutorials are Launched!

First, thank you for your incredible patience!! This is the first of the new Silverlight 2 Tip of the Day series, as promised, and as an opening salvo, I'm trilled to provide a link to the Road Map to my … Continue reading →

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Taking the market for granted – Not

Sometimes when I'm writing a reply to a comment, I realize it deserves a new blog post. Here you go….   >>  I think that you're being optimistic in thinking that Silverlight is an automatic choice, even with SL 2.0. … Continue reading →

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