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Sams Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours, Table of Contents

Community Blogs — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:38:59 GMT

I've been working since September 2007 (more or less) on an upcoming Silverlight book titled "Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours" at Sams. This book will be aimed at beginners with the technology (and maybe even beginners in programming...(read more)

Base Classes for User Controls

Community Blogs — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:33:43 GMT

I am still working with Siebrand Dijkstra and his people at School Master, BV and they've opened my eyes to another interesting development. In looking at their code, I convinced them that their interface might be better as an Abstract class that...(read more)

Silvelright Cream for August 20, 2008 -- #352

Community Blogs — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:59:59 GMT

Alex Knight on custom fonts, Adam Kinney with WPF demos, Shawn Wildermuth on Container Editing in Blend, Tim Heuer with Troubleshooting Webcast, Chris Koenig reports Silverlight on Skyfire Richard Costall and Pete McGann with Silverlight Manic Miner Game...(read more)

Blend Container Editing

Community Blogs — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:17:15 GMT

I love teaching the Silverlight Tour as pretty much every class I teach I learn something new. I get used to certain features of Blend that do what I need but because of some bugs, I have gotten too good at hand-editing my XAML . In my current class ...(read more)

Joining IdentityMine (and leaving Siemens)

Community Blogs — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:08:57 GMT

These last months have been amongst the most intensive I have ever been in my life. Since my last blog post, I have been extremely busy finishing writing my Silverlight book and starting the editing work. It is well underway, and we will publish later...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 19, 2008 -- #351

Community Blogs — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:53:35 GMT

Martin Mihaylov on Resizing the SL Object, Dan Wahlin on the Grid and a Flyout StackPanel, Robby Ingebretsen with a Particle Generator, Mike Snow on Terrain Part 2, Custom Mouse Cursor, and Transparent Draggable dialog, Mike Taulty with MessageBox(),...(read more)

Deep Fried Bytes Interview - Part 2

Community Blogs — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:25:06 GMT

URL : http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-10-a-... In this second part of my interview, Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff to talk about all things Silverlight . This episode gets deeper in to the good and bad of Silverlight 2 development today. ©...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2008 -- #350

Community Blogs — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:57:26 GMT

Koen Zwikstra updated SLSpy with Reflector, Alan Cobb on sizing the NBCOlympics videos, Page Brooks on a great carousel, Jeff Wilcox with a Unit Testing primer, Jonas Follesø with updated SL/WebCam and Sliding puzzle, Jesse Liberty compares animation...(read more)

Why I've been quiet...

Community Blogs — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:23 GMT

Breaking with a year and a half tradition, my WynApse.com site has been pretty quiet lately. I have kept up with the Silverlight Cream blog posts, but I always feel bad when I don't have much of my own product out there. After MIX this year, Bill...(read more)

Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or not) and My Silverlight Wishlist

Community Blogs — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:58:35 GMT

I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some baggage that just doesn’, and folks start picking apart the analogy and assuming it still applies to the...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 17, 2008 -- #349

Community Blogs — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:39:54 GMT

Bill Reiss announced a SL Game contest, Matt Berseth with Custom DataGrid icons, Palard Julien provides password control, Sean Blakemore on IOC and Moq, Somesegar describes the olympics process, Laurence Moroney with a fun app, Scott Barnes on RSS, Tim...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2008 -- #348

Community Blogs — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:45:51 GMT

SilverlightShow hosts another Contest, Anna Wrochna investigates overlaying, Denislav Savkov with Part 3 of the Weather control, and Shawn Wildermuth on VS2008SP1, SL2B2, and ADO.NET Data Services. From SilverlightCream.com : Ivan Dragoev and the SilverlightShow...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2008 -- #347

Community Blogs — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:23:42 GMT

SilverlightOnly Panorama Viewer, Alex Golesh on Isolated Storage, Mike Snow on moving the XAP, Changing the XAP name, and Changing the cursor, Corey Schuman on Drag and Drop, and Jeff Paries animation book. If you're also into WPF, checkout the 3...(read more)

Nine Questions by Me...

Community Blogs — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:55 GMT

URL : http://www.blogusmaximus.net/archive/2008/08/14... I was approached to answer nine questions for the ninequestions.net site. I was happy to get asked. Hopefully there is some info that you haven't heard already. Enjoy... © 2008 Shawn Wildermuth...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2008 - 2 -- #346

Community Blogs — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:57:37 GMT

Bart Czernicki comparing Silverlight to Flash, Jesse Liberty with 3 videos, and Dan Wahlin on Layout Controls. From SilverlightCream.com : Silverlight advantages over Flash Bart Czernicki takes a hard swing at comparing Silverlight to Flash. Definitely...(read more)