In 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! (more…)
Archive for October, 2009
Play with MS SIlverlight
Monday, October 26th, 2009Updated Toolkit For MS Silverlight Release
Thursday, 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
Monday, 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
Thursday, 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
Tuesday, 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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List of 10 best Silverlight websites
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Microsoft Silverlight is getting more and more popular, nowadays. That is why we have decided to make a list of top silverlight based websites to show you the possibilities of new Microsoft’s software package combined with designers imagination.
So here is comes – the list of 10 great examples how brilliant ideas could be professionally executed using Microsoft Silverlight: (more…)
Flash Versus Silverlight
Friday, October 9th, 2009
The main aim of this article is to discuss some of technical differences between Flash and Silverlight without any intend to show which among both products is better or worth. This is article does not promote any product and written in rather analytical mean.
Microsoft’s release of Silverlight cross-browser cross-platform plug in, set up a new wave of rumors on the topic of “who’s gonna to rule the Web?” – World’s community of web-designers and developers started to share their points of view towards choosing between Flash and Silverlight. Being a new product, Silverlight finds it hard to get its place on the international market, as it been thoroughly covered by grandpa Adobe Flash. But at the same time Silvelight contains features, everyone have always wanted to see in Flash. The simplest example is search engine optimization. Another interesting fact is that Flash can be developed on either OS X or Windows, while Silverlight requires you to be using Windows to develop any silverlight applications, and not just Windows, but the Visual Studio development kit for Windows which is not in the typical arsenal for web development. (more…)
Nokia Implements Microsoft Silverlight
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Rumours about Nokia’s plans to make MS Silverlight available for S60 platform that runs on Symbian OS, were finally approved by Nokia’s officials. What’s more, The world’s biggest cell-phone producer is targeting on its Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets to make them compatible with MS Silverlight.
Knowing the fact that S60 is commonly used on more smartphone’s, than any other, the Microsoft company is on its way to ‘bit a big chunk’ with their new product with a shiny name – Silverlight. As you might know, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering media experiences and interactive applications. Adding supports is one of the most important features of Silverlight, because it extends opportunities for developers to create multi-platform applications.
On March 5, 2008 the day of Microsoft’s sold out MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote. Silverlight was intended to be available for S60 developers later that year with initial service delivery anticipated shortly thereafter for all S60 licensees. Since then there were no fresh rumors over the Giant’s latest collaboration, but we hope to get brilliant results from what was planned to do.
Microsoft’s New Web Invader
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
On July 9, 2009 Microsoft released its latest version of their new cross browser plug-in called Silverlight 3.0 that has been already rumored to be Flash’s strongest competitor. At its core, Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser .NET plug-in that renders XAML (an XML-based language that may be used to define graphical assets, user interfaces, behaviors, animations, and more) and enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and RIAs for browsers. Silverlight supports the display of high-definition video files, and importantly, Microsoft took a pledge of sending them over the Net (for as you know streaming HD video could be sometimes really expensive) by thus opening new opportunities for smaller developers. Indeed, Microsoft promised reliable 700kbps throughput for media files, and free distribution of all content on its network for one year.