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• A Tool to Help Set Style on User Controls in Silverlight 2.0

  As we have seen so far (when using Silverlight 2.0 and the new user controls), getting at the default XAML for a control isn't always easy to find or change. Most people need to find that information, then start with a copy of the control's default visuals. Read More... Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:03 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, Styling, Silverlight User Controls

• Popular Silverlight Surface Demo Updated to Silverlight 2.0

  Over at Michael Schwarz's Blog, he has updated the Silverlight Surface 2.0 demo to include support for multi-scale images with Deep Zoom.. This is a real treat to check out, and with the new code updates this demo is getting to be cool enough that you Read More... Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:22 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Surface, Silverlight 2.0, demo update

• Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid Walk-thru

  Over at Scott Morrison's blog he has a great entry on how to setup and use the datagrid control in Silverlight version 2. The walk thru includes code samples in VB.NET and C#. This is a great tutorial all the way from setting the items source property Read More... Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 7:34 PM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, Silverlight 2.0, DataGrid, VB.NET

• Semi-colons in your SL 2.0 Webservice Work Around

  It always helps to read up on blogs if you want to know the latest problems people are finding out there. Over at IanG's Blog, he has documented a bug in Silverlight 2.0b1, apparently if the service you wish to access has a semicolon in its URI, Silverlight Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:35 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, semi-colon, web service, workaround

• Sockets in Silverlight 2.0

  Sockets in Silverlight 2.0 Over at Marc Holmes Blog, there is a great example of using sockets with Silverlight. This enables real-time push data communications from within the Silverlight Plug-in. Into the browser. The code is also available for download Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:24 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, TCP, Sockets, Push Data

• ListBox and DataGrids In Silverlight 2.0

  ListBox and DataGrids in Silverlight 2.0 Over at the UX Musings Blog there is a great tutorial on how to start wiring up ListBox and DataGrid controls to data in Silverlight 2.0.. Corrina Barber did a great job with this tutorial and she actually gives Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:21 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, ListBox, DataGrid

• A Carousel Control For Silverlight 2

  Over at Jaime Rodriguez's Blog , he has developed a Carousel Control for Silverlight Version 2. The source and the control sample is available at Jaime's Blog.. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:08 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, cool 3d-like Sample, User Control

• Silverlight 2 + WCF + LINQtoSQL=A Powerful Combination

  Over at the Swiss MSDN Team Blog, there is an excellent Silverlight tutorial video called " Silverlight 2 Beta1 + WCF + LINQ to SQL = a powerfull combination ". In this 15 minutes video they show you how to use the combined power of Silverlight, WCF and Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:44 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, Silverlight 2.0, LINQtoSQL, WCF

• Styling Controls in Silverlight 2.0 and Blend 2.5

  Styling your controls so they fit within the confines of the page is important to keeping your overall design's integrity. It's very easy to do this in WPF, and now it's just as easy to do this in Silverlight 2.0 with Blend 2.5.. Let's look at how we Read More... Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:55 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, Blend 2.5, Styling, User Controls

• Neat Features of Expression Encoder 2

  Expression Encoder 2 offers some significant advantages over the first version. The new functionality of the "Overlay" feature is pretty spectacular.. You can import many different video formats, and some new ones for overlay that were not expected.. Read More... Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:46 PM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: XAML, Silverlight 2.0, video ecoding, Expression Studio 2, Expression Encoder 2, overlay

• Deep Zoom Image Composer for Silverlight Releases to Preview

  by Don Burnett Over at the Expression Blend blog, Microsoft released a tool for Silverlight 2.0 to preview release called the Deep Zoom Composer . The user guide has also been released . So what does this do for you? Well if you are developing HD photo Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:13 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Mix 08, Silverlight 2.0, MultiscaleImage, Deep Zoom

• Scott Gutherie Introduces us to Expression Blend 2.5

  Well it looks like we are going to see not only a Blend 2.0 aimed at currently released products but also a Blend 2.5 beta in the near future. Over at Scott Guthrie's Blog he's got the scoop on Blend 2.5 and not only that he's got a great HOW-TO article Read More... Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 2:53 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight 2.0, Scott Guthrie, Blend 2.5

• A First Look at Silverlight 2.0

  Over at Scott Gutherie's Blog , he has released a series of first articles (and code samples) on Silverlight 2.0.. Since this information is released publicly I thought it would be nice to talk a little bit about it here and the important things for our Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 5:05 AM by Don Burnett | 0 Comments Filed under: Digg Application, Silverlight 2.0, First Look, Must Read