Archives
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First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2
Last week I did a First Look at Silverlight 2 post that talked about the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta1 release. In the post I linked to some end-to-end tutorials I've written that walk through some of the fundamental programming concepts behind Silverlight and WPF, and demonstrate how to use them to build a "Digg Search Client" application using Silverlight:
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First Look at Silverlight 2
Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008
This is part one of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple search client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 2: Using Layout Management
This is part two of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid
This is part three of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel
This is part four of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data
This is part five of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple Digg client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios
This is part six of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple search client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 7: Using Control Templates to Customize a Control's Look and Feel
This is part seven of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple search client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight.
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Silverlight Tutorial Part 8: Creating a Desktop Application using WPF
Our goal with this last tutorial is a little different than the previous seven tutorials. We actually aren't going to be running code in Silverlight with this tutorial - instead we will be using WPF and .NET 3.5. We'll be taking the existing search application code we've written to run inside Silverlight in the browser, and re-use it to also run as a Windows desktop application.
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Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page
I'll be using this page to link to Silverlight 2 articles and posts (both ones I write as well ones by others). Check back often for updates as I'm just getting started.
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.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap
A few months ago I did a .NET Web Product Roadmap blog post where I outlined some of the product plans we have to build on top of the web development features we’ve shipped with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.
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Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update
This past December we released the first preview of a new ASP.NET MVC Framework as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Release. I also wrote a number of blog posts that provide more detail on what the ASP.NET MVC framework is and how you can optionally use it:
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VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available
One of the things we are trying to do with VS 2008 is to more frequently release public patches that roll-up bug-fixes of commonly reported problems. Today we are shipping a hot-fix roll-up that addresses several issues that we've seen reported with VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 web scenarios.
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Feb 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, WPF
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
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MIX08
MIX is a Microsoft web development conference we hold in Las Vegas each year.