As you may know, I've been tracking the learning process through this "diary" of learning Silverlight with periodic blog entries. I recently began working with Silverlight 1.1 (Alpha) in anticipation of my presentation at Tech Ed, and while…( read more )…(read more)
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View Comments Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Ballmer announced that we are opening Popfly to a public beta today…( read more )…(read more)
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This morning the Popfly team announced a new Beta and have removed the invitation-only restriction on that site. Just sign in to Popfly.com with your Live ID. You can create your own gadgets, mashups and web pages using Silverlight powered tools. No programming…( read more )…(read more)
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Lots of articles today, so I'm posting first the ones submitted to me: One correction on Ken Dopierala's latest mousewheel article… he broke the mousewheel out separately, to make it easy to use and I blew past it…; Pete Brown has a two-part…( read more )…(read more)
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Busy Day in Silverlight — This is Part 2: Michael Cameron of MC's Sandpit posted a must-read two-parter on Collisions in 1.1 with great demos; Jesse Liberty continues his 1.1 excursion by revisiting Drag and Drop; and while not directly Silverlight…( read more )…(read more)
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Hello, In about 2 hours, I will be presenting on Silverlight 1.1 at the IndyTechFest in Indianapolis, IN. My presentation that I am giving is available here. This presentation is ever-so-slightly different than the ones I have given in the past. During…( read more )…(read more)
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I really like Sara Ford's Visual Studio Blog "Did You Know" … giving out quick little useful Visual Studio tips. It takes a quantity of time to produce a good-quality Article with all the bits in place. Even Tutorials are getting backed…( read more )…(read more)
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Hello, I am excited to announce we are VERY near opening up the early adopter program for my upcoming "Silverlight 1.1 in Action" book. In celebration of this event, I have been given TEN (10) coupons for one FREE Ebook. In order to provide…( read more )…(read more)
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This Tooltip is probably very obvious to the majority of folks reading, but there may be a couple programmers just starting out that will find this useful. If you want to grab an object you can use for your sender.findName() code without passing a valid…( read more )…(read more)
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I found a couple things this weekend, but today was a very rich day for us, so there's lots to look at: Silverilght Journal from the 'Data Farm'; Jesse Warden introduces us to Scale 9 for Silverlight; Ken Dopierala continues with Scrollbars…( read more )…(read more)
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