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If you haven’t yet registered for the MSDN Roadshow events taking place this week in Roanoke and Baltimore, you’re almost out of time. I’ll be storming Roanoke tomorrow with my road trip buds Zhiming Xue and Ashish Jaiman for a full day of web development
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I was keen on Silverlight more than a year ago, but unfortunately I've stopped studying it since I just had to work in other areas. It seems like now is the time to pick up where I left since Scott has announced the release of SL 2.0 R. Share this
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If you’ve been working with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 you’ll be happy to know that the release candidate was just released. You can get it at: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/sl2rc0.aspx Scott Guthrie has a detailed post on the new features but here’s
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This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship. We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update
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Clipping paths provide a way to hide sections of an object based on different geometries. You can apply rectangles, ellipses or even create your own custom paths to a target object and hide specific areas from view. I enjoy experimenting with
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It’s amazing how much cool stuff is out there to learn! There’s never a dull day in the technology world if you enjoy learning and challenging yourself to grasp that next “big concept”. I’m excited to be involved with two workshops covering Silverlight
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Disclaimer: Everything in this post is pure conjecture by me, done by simply poking around my system and talking to myself. I don't work for the Live Mesh team, nor do I know anyone on the team. Anyone could have written this. I was talking to Harry recently
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Arranging controls on a user interface in a flexible manner is key to building successful applications. Silverlight 2 provides three main controls that can be used for layout management: · Canvas Control · StackPanel Control · Grid Control In this
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I fired up my iMac this morning and ran over to www.NBCOlympics.com full of excitement to see the video experience that I've heard Microsoft and NBC talking about for the past few months. I've never installed Silverlight on a Mac before, and I was intentionally
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The Channel 9 Wiki has a listing of Silverlight user groups. If you’re looking for a group, check it out. If you run a group, make sure it’s listed so folks can find you (and while you’re online, make sure you sign your group up in Codezone , and add
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Wait a minute…I hear you say… Silverlight doesn’t support 3D! Well, no, not directly. But there are ways to get around this, and Robby Ingebretsen highlights a few : A couple of weeks ago, I spent a little time trying to get my finger on the pulse of
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Bunch of stuff I’ve been meaning to blog about recently, in no particular order: The SideShow Team Blog announces the availability of a beta release of SideShow gadgets for Windows Media Center . View guide information, schedule recordings, control media
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Frank La Vigne is just going to town on developing cool solutions around Community Megaphone . First it was his Windows Live Writer plug-in, and now he’s created a cool Silverlight front-end for Community Megaphone: You can click on any state and get
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Since yesterday there is an update available for Silverlight 2 . This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. This update also improves support for Firefox 3 . Microsoft Support kb955011 More details on Silverlight and
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My one-hundred-and-twentyfirst podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. We chat about
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