By Don Burnett I have always loved comic books as a kid. It wasn't until I was an adult that I saw the Japanese versions of comics, as full graphics novels. Now they are making the transition to online as many publications have (including the New York Times Reader).  Now here's a neat way to read Mangas and even create them yourself.   ...

Microsoft has launched it's new Art and Technology web site. The site features great examples of people doing amazing things with Silverlight, WPF and Expression Studio. The site not only has some great case studies but it features a ''sandbox'' section where you can get up and personal and learn about the technology, along with a gallery ...

By Don Burnett Here is a list of some of the major changes between  Beta 1 and Beta 2 of Silverlight 2.0. If you are a developer or even designer you might find this to be a very useful list to be aware of. The full list can be found at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=120655&clcid=0x409. This is a more collapsed version of the ...

Over at Brad Abrams blog, he has a super article on Role based Security in Silverlight applications for those who wish to write applications that include server based authentication... The article goes in depth about using the ASP.NET server authentication services in Silverlight and branches into areas such as personalization. This is a good read ...

A beta version of Times Reader for Mac users will be released this month. In building Times Reader for the Mac we’ve focused on providing the core set of features that have made the PC version popular. These include the easy-to-read paginated format, the ability to view the paper offline, a seven-day archive, text search, the ability to adjust the ...

Over at Simple-Talk.com, Steven R. McCabe has a great article about working with LINQ and using it to create a DAL/Entity layer for your application. There is no mention of Silverlight or WPF, but the article talks about things such as CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations with LINQ and explains the subject very well with code ...

Well last time I saw someone trying to do 3D in Silverlight, it was in wire frame, and didn't look so great, so you can imagine my surprise when I checked Kosh Land (catuhe.com) and saw a 3D viewer running non-hardware accelerated 3D with animating and moving in real time around the viewer world and getting over 20 frames per second on my Core 2 ...

As an internal lab project, just to see Silverlight and Expression Media Encoder's flexibility, one of the developers at Vertigo.com decided to re-implement the Don Bluth Arcade Classic ''Dragon's Lair'' in Silverlight just to see if it could be done.. This video is the story of that, and it's very cool to see the flexibility of Silverlight and ...

Nokia today announced that it has reached a deal with Microsoft to put Silverlight, Redmond's so-called ''Flash killer,'' on its S60 Symbian OS-powered smartphones, as well as Series 40 devices and its range of Linux-based Internet tablets. Read the full story from last110: ...

I am looking for a WPF guru and I'm hoping that you can help! What we're looking for is a solid WPF developer to help develop graphic intensive UIs for a travel booking site and also for a digital download service. I could bore you with intangible, touchy-feely descriptors like  ''Must have outstanding attention to detail'' but instead I'll ...