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I came across a great post about updated Silverlight 2 roadmap. Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap. When exactly will Silverlight support all the codecs that a standard Windows Media Player support? ...

Corrina Barber has publish four different Silverlight control skin sets that looks very nice and shows the power of skinning in Silverlight.         See online previews of each skin: http://www.corrina_b.members.winisp.net/skins/bubbly/Testpage.html ...

Today I updated my Surface Demo (original source from Silverlight examples). Well, there are only some small changes since last beta 1.1. So I have added a DeepZoom control (MultiScaleImage) to the demo: See the online demo here.

The next beta of Silverlight 2 is available online since yesterday. Another announcement appeared in the news is that Silverlight (maybe only version 1.0 for now) will be available on Windows Mobile 6  and Nokia S60 and S40. Last evening I could add an Silverlight 2 control on my .NET Micro Framework device talking to my Web server that is ...

You may have noticed that the Silverlight web site at Microsoft.com has been updated. Well, I looks nicer than before, I like it. The system requirements are available here. For those of you that are trying to watch the virtual launch event (Heroes Happen Here) of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 at ...

Using Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To generate the AJAX client-side JavaScript proxies the AjaxPro library checks for all public methods inside a specified type that are marked with the ...

To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight to be able to develop and show some demos. While visiting some web sites from Microsoft I got a small popup showing me that I can get a better experience on that site when I install ...

More than half a year ago Dave Campbell, Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF. A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect: The example above is built with rectangles in the first line of boxes. The second line is done with the Path XAML element. ...

Simone has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers. The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX with about 73.7% followed by the AJAX Control Toolkit which is used by almost half of the .NET developers that are using AJAX. The second mosed used ...

While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers. The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth connection is enough. Combining this project with WPF or Silverlight would be the answer of one of ...