Great news for all Silverlight developers! On April 12-14 2010 the Microsoft ASP.NET and Silverlight Conference and Expo would be hosted in Bellagio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas!!!
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Microsoft ASP.NET and Silverlight Conference and Expo 2010
March 4th, 2010Travel Around The Globe With Silveright Apps And BingMaps
January 20th, 2010BingMaps.com has just added two new Silverlight applications Local Events and Destination Maps.
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Silverlight 3 Books
January 11th, 2010As you all folks know, there is no practice without theory. You can’t hammer a nail if you have no idea what is and how to use a hammer. Of course you can take a chance and experiment a little and I’m sure you’ll be lucky enough to figure out the process on nailing something. But it’s not that simple when it comes to programming. So I guess it will be rather useful for you to fluently read some books about Silverlight and its possibilities. I know that it’s much easier to surf the web for free Silverlight tutorials, but have you ever dreamt to be that guy who creates and writes tutorials; to be the leader but not a common follower? Remember that even programming geeks and gurus sometimes leaf through the pages to keep up with the fast growing software and hardware development. You should know that all the secrets are there in the books! The secrets to succeed… to become a guru!
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Silverlight 4 beta release!Microsoft accelerates production
November 30th, 2009On November 18, 2009, the day all geeks touched down in LA to become a part of PDC (Professional Developers Conference), Microsoft was in a rush to unveil the beta version of Silverlight 4. It’s been 4 month since Microsoft presented Silverlight 3 and now we are witnessing the 4’s issue release. The motives for Microsoft’s accelerated cross-platform development are shaded. Is it a well-planned project of upgrading web application framework with a glace of web-developers and web-designers’ feedbacks, or is it simply a marketing trick to make Silverilght a household word – we really find it hard to answer. The best way to reveal the truth is to analyzing of “what’s so fresh” in Silverlight 4 beta. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft To Team With Intel
November 3rd, 2009In its attempts to implement Silverlight RIA technology into vatiety of platforms, Microsoft teamed up with world’s largest semiconductor chip maker Intel to announce Silverlight to be run on Intel Atom-Based systems preferentially on Moblin OS (open-source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and nettops).
According to Intel’s officials Moblin will support Silverlight 3. During a keynote address at the event, Renee James, Intel’s corporate vice president and general manager of the company’s Software and Services Group, and Ian Ellison-Taylor, Microsoft’s general manager for Client Platforms and Tools, announced the news of negotiations over Moblin’s enhancement with SIlverlight being set with Microsoft. The demonstrated. Also the speech gradually turned into presentation of IIS Smooth Streaming on Atom-based devices running both Windows 7 and Moblin.
In addition Silverlight was stated to be one of the technologies supported in Intel’s recently announced Atom Developer Program.
Play with MS SIlverlight
October 26th, 2009In case you might be interested in the possibilities of MS Silverlight we would like to recommend you to try out the games developed with a help of Silverlight 3. Take a little break from your casual routine and enjoy this not sophisticated and at the same time interesting games. They would cheer you up. But don’t forget and old saying: ‘Business before pleasure’:). Your boss wouldn’t appreciate your spending too much time on pleasure of relaxing and entertaining. Be a good worker and stay responsible. Well, in case, there is no one above you – enjoy yourself! Read the rest of this entry »
Updated Toolkit For MS Silverlight Release
October 22nd, 2009Microsoft releases its 5th version of MS Silverlight Toolkit developed specially for Silverlight 3. All Toolkits’ controls were updated to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010. There also was some changes in charting. Now with 5th Silverlight Toolkit all classes of charting are available; Palette’s type was changed from “IEnumerable Style” to “IEnumerableResourceDictionary”. The new feature LegendItemStyle was introduced to make customization of LegendItem more convenient. The Drag and Drop feature was updated to support common items controls such as LightBox, TreeView, DataGrid,etc. Alongside other Silverlight Toolkit binaries, Microsoft implemented the new System.Reactive assembly.
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List of Silverlight tutorials
October 19th, 2009Here it comes! The first list of the finest Silverlight tutorials!
Here we provide links to interesting and most informative Silverlight related websites :
1. http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials/ Of course it wouldn’t be right not to mention Silverlight official website! There you’ll find lots of tutorials completed by professionals and lots of other useful tips;
2. http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/05/02/15-excellent-and-useful-microsoft-silverlight-tutorials-resources.html – Here you’ll find 15 excellent expanded Silverlight tutorials;
3. http://www.ajaxline.com/20-most-interesting-silverlight-tutorials – Ajaxline.com claims to have 20 most interesting Silverlight tutorials. To find out the truth you’ll have to try it. We’ve checked all of them, and they are really awesome!;
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Silverlight Tutorials
October 15th, 2009
We, at Silverlight-templates.com are looking for comprehensive Silverlight Tutorials. We’ll publish them on our site and surely provide links to primary resources.
In case you might want to share your own Silverlight Tutorial or want to share the Silverlight Tutorial that was helpful to you, please comment this article and provide links to informative Silverlight Tutorials.
Publishing your tutorials on this blog would be your free promotion to the whole Silverlight community. Thus we’ll help thousands of people who need assistance with Silvelight.
We promise to do our best to list every Silverlight Tutorial we find on the web!
Microsoft Expression Studio 3
October 13th, 2009After you’ve read some reviews news and tutorials you might wan’t to try Microsoft Sliverlight in action. Naturally, you’ll need some special tools to start your own expierence and that is what this article about. So we are going to talk about Microsoft’s new suite of tools for designing and building web and Windows client applications and rich digital media contents – Microsoft Expression studio 3.
So let’s see what we get in the box. Expression studio suit consists of:
1. Microsoft Expression Web 3
2. Expression Blend™ 3 + SketchFlow
3. Microsoft Expression Design 3
4. Microsoft Expression Encoder
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