Friday, November 20th, 2009
So as most of you probably know by now, Silverlight 4 has been announced and a beta is already released, you can head off over here to find out what’s new and to download the bits you need like Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, etc. One big warning though, ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Most of you knew it was coming and I’m really excited that its out now so I can talk about it. Silverlight 3 really is very cool and adds amazing performance improvements and additional features that people have been wanting. My personal favourites are: Hardware ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
After many months of beta testing Microsoft Silverlight 2 it has been officially announced that it will release today, the 14th of October 2008. A release build was expected to emerge sometime in November so it seems the team is very confident with the RC0 developer-only build that emerged ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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