Databinding is a somewhat advanced topic, typically covered in the second or even the
final third of most Silverlight books. We’re going to tackle it in the next couple mini-tutorials because
A two minute special podcast recording the purchase of my new Windows Phone. 
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Do not read your slides aloudKey: Everything on your slide must be there for a reason. That includes animation, colors, gradients, text, fonts, etc. If you can’t say clearly why you added it, take it out.
In the previous mini-tutorial in this series you created a form in which you placed a prompt and text box for the first name using Expression Blend and drag and drop. It was probably not obvious that as you created columns and rows and as you dragged controls onto the form, Blend was creating Xaml code for you that represented your design.
This review is very tough to write. First because I’ve not read every Silverlight 4 book that is out there (and many are not yet released) and second, because the one I keep finding answers to my questions in was written by my boss: Pete Brown. That said, the three books reviewed here are so truly tremendously excellent, I can’t not write about them.
Talking with Charlie Kindel about Best Practices for Windows Phone Design
(Part 1 of a 2 part discussion)
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Part 2 of the full stack video series with Jon Galloway
Following PDC10 last week there has been much speculation in the press and online about Microsoft’s commitment to the Silverlight platform.
So let’s set the record straight: Silverlight is not dead, in fact Silverlight is more important and strategic to Microsoft than ever.
Talking with developers at the PDC Windows Phone Workshop – A Special Podcast
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Open Expression Blend (which you downloaded in mini-tutorial #1) and select New Project. In the New Project dialog box, select Windows Phone in the left pane, Windows Phone Databound Application in the upper right, and name the application WPFS3.
The art board should display the outline of a simplified phone, with the default names for the application, the page and a number of two line items. To see what this looks like in the phone emulator, press F5 (that is, run this project before we even begin work on it).
You can write for Windows Phone using either Silverlight or XNA. Here are some general guidelines to help with understanding the strengths of each of the two platforms (from the Windows Phone 7 Developer Portal).
I’m incredibly pleased and proud to launch The Full Stack with Jon Galloway.
