Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams reminder

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Just a quick reminder that there is still space available for the SA Developer .NET session Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams. Please take a moment and RSVP over here on the forum thread.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 now available

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Microsoft earlier this week announced at Tech-Ed North America 2008 that Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available for download this week. The new Silverlight 2 beta 2 control updates the version number from 2.0.30226.2 to 2.0.30523.6. This release is expected to break compatibility with Silverlight 2 ...

Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

For those of you that were at Tech-Ed or at his SA Developer talk, Angus Logan demonstrated publishing Silverlight content directly into the Silverlight Streaming service cloud from inside Microsoft Expression Encoder. He has just announced that a new preview version of the plug-in is available for download along with ...

Halo 3 Game Guide and Silverlight

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

I can't figure out if this post is about Microsoft's Flash killer, Silverlight, or the most anticipated game of the year, Halo 3. Tim Sneath posted about the new Halo 3 Game Guide that has gone live and its using Silverlight to get the message across. With the local ...

Silverlight 1.1 UserControl C# template code does not follow best practices

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Why does the Microsoft Visual Studio team not follow the best practices internally? When creating a Silverlight 1.1 UserControl under Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 it generates the following code by default. System.IO.Stream s = this.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Project1.UserControl1.xaml"); this.InitializeFromXaml(new System.IO.StreamReader(s).ReadToEnd()); Most developers would realise that this is ...