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Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 9

Silverlight Tip of the Day #66 Title: How to copy XAML for Silverlight from Expression DesignerSilverlight Tip of the Day #65 Title: Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to your ControlsSilverlight Tip of the Day #64 Title: Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web ServiceSilverlight Tip of the Day #63 Title: How to Monitor...

Silverlight 2 has been Released!

Today I am very proud to announce that Silverlight 2 has been officially released! Grab it today at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted. This is a phenomenal release that provides a powerful solution to creating rich web application. At the link above you can install: Breaking ChangesMake certain to upgrade your beta 1 and beta 2 ...

A simple Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo

I wrote a simple Silverlight demo of using data grid control to display stock quotes from a web service.  Here's the demo Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo Part 1/4: Basic Design (This one include the project zip file) Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo Part 2/4: Basic stock quotation Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 8

Silverlight Tip of the Day #57Title: How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight ControlSilverlight Tip of the Day #56Title: Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight.Silverlight Tip of the Day #55Title: How to Apply Styles in Silverlight – Part ISilverlight Tip of the Day #54Title: How to Develop with ...

A simple Balloon shooting silverlight game.

The following is a step by step walkthrough of designing a simple Balloon shooting silverlight game.  Hope you enjoy it.Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 1/4, DesignSiverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial Part 2/4, Create Silverlight project, add balloon user control Siverlight 2 Beta 2 Balloon shooting tutorial ...

Silverlight Version 2 RC0 has been Released!

Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 –> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Also, included below is a link to a patch that will upgrade Blend.Visual Studio 2008 ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 7

Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 Title: Font Support in SilverlightSilverlight Tip of the Day #45: Title: Text Formatting with the TextBlock controlSilverlight Tip of the Day #44: Title: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services. Silverlight Tip of the Day #43 Title: Making it Snow in Silverlight. Demo...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 6

Silverlight Tip of the  Day #39 Title: How to Create a Zoom Toolbar. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Zoom%20Toolbar/iframe.html Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 Title: How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience. Silverlight Tip of the Day #37 Title: How to Dynamically Load and Display ...

Visual Web Developer support for out of band releases.

Recently we have received a few requests from customers asking whether our out of band (OOB) releases (Silverlight, Dynamic Data Wizard, Model View Controller and Web Deployment Project) are supported in Visual Web Developer (VWD) Express or not. This blog post lists all the OOB releases that we have shipped during the last year and what ...