10 Most Important Points From Dr. Tim Sneath’s and Scott Guthrie’s Silverlight videos on Channel 9
I started writing this post as two separate summaries, however these videos contain so much overlapping information, I decided to just combine them. If you want to watch the videos yourself you can find Dr. Sneath’s video here and Scott Guthire’s video here. Read more
10 Minute Tutorial - Silverlight: Using JavaScript to Call Scriptable Managed Code (C#)
My event handling tutorial walked through manipulating a Silverlight control using managed code. Today, we will learn how to access that managed code from JavaScript in an HTML page. The blandness of my last tutorial (a blue rectangle, whoopie) inspired me to spice things up for this tutorial and give you: animated, multi-color rectangles! Lacking the desire or the time to create the necessary XAML myself, I “borrowed” it from one of the samples embedded in the absolutely awesome SilverlightPad application.
Man, I hope that code is open source. 
In addition to snazzy animations, the application for this tutorial will also contain a couple of form controls that will manipulate the Silverlight content at runtime. The first control, a simple drop down, will allow the user to select the number of rectangles displayed on the screen. The second form control will act as a pause/resume button for the animation.
Okay, let’s get started! Read more
Silverlight 1.0 Released
Well, it’s about time!
Just kidding. 
Congrats to the Silverlight team. I know they worked their proverbial butts off to get this release out. And at a cursory glance, it looks very solid. I posted some links below that talk about the release in greater detail: Read more
Microsoft Showcases Tafiti Silverlight Tech Demo
Recently, Microsoft released a technology demo, named Tafiti, as a showcase for thier new Silverlight web browser extension. This demo allows the user to execute web searches and then browse the results in different data visualization structures and also save searches for later. While not meant to be a finished product, Tafiti supposedly represents the new possibilities in data visualization and user interaction that Silverlight unlocks. Read more
10 Minute Tutorial - JavaFX: Hello World
Over the past couple of months, I wrote a number of Microsoft Silverlight tutorials both to learn Silverlight and help other developers ramp up their Silverlight skills quickly. Now however, I’ll turn my attention to one of Silverlight’s competitors: JavaFX. If you read the JavaFX section of my introductory post, you already know that Sun has taken a very different approach than Microsoft in implementing a framework for developing easily deployed, highly-interactive, “rich” applications. So, I want to jump right in and create an application that will have everyone hanging on the edge of their seat with enthusiasm (or rolling their eyes and groaning in almost physical pain): Hello World. Read more
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