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Start downloading! Silverlight Beta 2 Released!

New features, more controls now in base with over 100+ expected soon..

And remember it has a *** GO LIVE licence!

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-beta2-released.aspx

http://www.widgetslab.com/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-beta-2-is-out-better-faster-and-stronger/

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/06/06/what-s-new-with-silverlight-tools-beta-2.aspx

Silverlight V2 Beta 2 and DeepZoom updated

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-0-beta-2-and-deep-zoom-composer-update.aspx

Free new DataGrid Control for Silverlight

DevExpress announced they will be offering a FREE DataGrid control soon for Silverlight 2.0.

Features:

Data Grouping against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Data Sorting against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Comprehensive Summary Computation support against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Column Movement
Column Resizing
Column Auto-Width
Row Editing
Row Preview (with animation)
Template Support (for cell content, cell editing, row preview and headers)
Auto Height Support for cells, headers, and totals.
Virtual StackPanel Row Container (simply means we are able to handle an unlimited number of rows)
Focused Row and Focused Cell
Multi-Row Selection
Cell Text Wrapping
Vertical/Horizontal Lines
Multiple column types/editors

It is free and comes with FULL SOURCE CODE!

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Components/Silverlight/Grid/

Great articles on Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and more

You need to visit this blog and browse through the articles, there are number of new ones just waiting for you:

* Getting started with Silverlight 2
* Important change to Sockets in Silverlight 2
* Silverlight 2 Beta 2 updates for web services
* Silverlight Streaming adds video upload fix
* A new Silverlight control - TabControl
* Silverlight and the VisualStateManager
* Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier

http://timheuer.com/blog/

Move Over, AJAX, ARAX Is Here

Ruby fan?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Move-Over-AJAX-ARAX-is-Here/?kc=EWKNLEDP060608A

Data and Silverlight 2: Data Binding

Here is another quality article:

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/data-and-silverlight-2-data-binding/

Integrating MVC with Silverlight

http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/archive/2008/06/04/integrating-mvc-with-silverlight.aspx

Another "Getting Started" tutorial

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/chakkaradeep/5155

Silverlight and Ruby on Rails?

http://stuff.techwhack.com/3751-silverlight-ruby-on-rails

Silverlight Tips

Here is a good resource on SL:

http://iftekharahmedamit.blogspot.com/2008/05/silverlight-tips-tricks-tutorials-and.html

Silverlight V2.0 Beta 2 - This week!!!!

Looks like Beta 2 will be out this week..  Great news!

Beta 2 also comes with a Commercial GO-LIVE license!

Expression Blend 2.5 and tools for VS 2008 should be out in a new June preview.

http://michaelsync.net/2008/06/03/news-silverlight-2-beta2-will-be-coming-this-week

Deep Zoom - Some practical ideas

Here is a demo showing ideas on how to use Deep Zoom for may than just showing a collection of pictures:

http://adamkinney.com/blog/335/default.aspx

CrossDomain issues with Web Services in SL

Running into an ProtocolException using web services?  Check this out:

http://anoriginalidea.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/problem-calling-a-web-service-from-silverlight-2/

Top 10 Silverlight Real World Implementations

Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia
NBC Beijing Olympics
Microsoft Videos
WWE / ECW X-Stream
Microsoft Health Common User Interface
Torque TV
Microsoft Popfly
Wish43
RobotChamps
Microsoft Live@edu

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2008/05/top-10-silverli.html

One cool watch!

http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2008/05/24/beauty-with-silverlight.aspx

Sending Email in Silvelight 2

Michael Sync has a tutorial showing how to send email with SL:

http://michaelsync.net/2008/05/25/tiptrick-sending-email-in-silverlight-2-beta1

Expression Blend for Developers

Here an article not to miss..

http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials/ExpressionBlendforDevelopers.aspx

Nine Silverlight 2 Features Not to be Missed!

1. HTML DOM Integration
2. JSON Serialization
3. Styles and Templates
4. Local Storage
5. Databinding
6. Generics
7. ItemsControls
8. Layout Management
9. WebClient
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Putting It in Practice

http://www.devx.com/RIA/Article/37982?trk=DXRSS_LATEST

DevExpress Silvelight Grid preview

http://www.devexpress.com/Home/Announces/AgDataGridPreview.xml

Drawing Shapes in Silverlight

http://apusay.blogspot.com/2008/05/drawing-shapes-with-silverlight.html

Images in Silverlight

http://apusay.blogspot.com/2008/05/images-in-silverlight.html

Deep Zooming Tutorial

http://agkdesign.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/deep-zooming-with-silverlight-2-tutorial/

Dr Dobbs: Silverlight and Local Storage

http://www.ddj.com/windows/208300036

Using the HyperlinkButton control in Silverlight

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Using-the-HyperlinkButton-control-in-Silverlight-2-Beta-1.aspx

Webcam in Silverlight 2 - MacGyver style

http://jonas.follesoe.no/PermaLink,guid,7f8857dc-5f37-4a8a-bd35-fd4b624af45b.aspx

Providing a great SL Install Experience made Easy

http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/jackg/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3

Dave Relyea's Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/devdave/default.aspx

Silverlight / Flicker example

HUGE update to WPF coming

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx

Silverlight for the Enterprise - Fundamentals

http://geekvalley.blogspot.com/2008/05/silverlight-for-enterprises.html

Using Yahoo Pipes as a Silverlight Cross Domain Proxy

http://jonas.follesoe.no/PermaLink,guid,52d330a9-2931-40dc-9320-01195b24996a.aspx

Deep Zoom continues to make waves

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/05/12/bbc-embraces-silverlight-for-radio-1s-big-weekend

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/05/10/bbc-silverlight-zoom-and-wow.aspx#52654

Deep Linking in Silverlight

Here is an intersting article by Miroslav Paskov:

http://blogs.telerik.com/MiroslavPaskov/Posts/08-04-30/History_Enabled_Script_Manager_and_Silverlight.aspx

MSDN Flash Article: ASP.NET Silverlight Server Controls

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/12/msdn-flash-article-asp-net-silverlight-server-controls.aspx

Playing with the Button Control

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Using-the-Button-control-in-Silverlight-2-Beta-1.aspx

Timeline change from Flash to Silverlight

http://designwithsilverlight.com/2008/05/10/timeline-infographics/

Dynamically Creating User Controls with Events

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/05/07/dynamically-creating-user-controls-that-fire-events-back-to-you.aspx

Why is Microsoft So Slow to Adopt Silverlight?

Microsoft IS planning large adoption of Silverlight!

http://blog.dennyboynton.com/post/Why-is-Microsoft-So-Slow-to-Adopt-Silverlight.aspx

Type Converters allow property attributes in Complex Types

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/01/02/did-you-know-that-type-converters-allow-you-to-use-property-attributes-in-complex-types.aspx

Using Sockets with Silverlight

Here are a couple good articles:

Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets

Part I

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2008/04/10/pushing-data-to-a-silverlight-client-with-sockets-part-i.aspx

Part II

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2008/04/13/pushing-data-to-a-silverlight-client-with-sockets-part-ii.aspx

Animation in-depth with SL 2

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/silverlight/AnimationInDepthWithSilverlight20Beta1.aspx

How to create SL app from an Excel Graph

http://www.wpf-graphics.com/HowTo_Sl_Excel.aspx

Wired Article: Hard Rock's Dinosaur memorabilia

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/view-rock-memor.html

More Silverlight 2.0 demos

Here are a couple new demos, "My Travel Management" and "Patient Journey Demo".

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/05/08/great-new-silverlight-applications.aspx

Write Silverlight and win an XBox

Only until May 15th so Hurry!

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/05/08/create-silverlight-games-win-xbox.aspx

Silverlight 3.0?

Here is an intersting post by Todd Anglin about a survey from Microsoft of what features developers feel should be added to Silverlight.  Looks like Microsoft is planning to have Silverlight apps run drom the desktop!!! Yeah Baby!

http://weblogs.asp.net/toddanglin/archive/2008/04/01/what-s-cooking-for-silverlight-3-0.aspx

Silverlight Tips and Triks Page

Information to help you get going with Silverlight

http://manddar.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/silverlight-tips-and-triks-link-page/

DrawingBrush and Deep Clone in Silverlight

Ever desire to have DrawingBrush in Silverlight?

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/05/06/drawingbrush-and-deep-clone-in-silverlight.aspx

Making use of your JSON data in Silverlight

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/05/06/use-json-data-in-silverlight.aspx

Silverlight Behaviors

http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=194

Building Adv 3D Animations SL 2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc500570.aspx?pr=blog

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo

Want to play with EntitySpaces inside Silverlight?

http://www.entityspaces.net/blog/2008/05/05/EntitySpacesAndSilverlightDemoPart1.aspx

Expression Studio 2 adds Expression Encoder

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/05/01/expression-studio-2-adds-expression-encoder-silverlight

Popfly Game Maker

Easily build / share and modify games!

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Popfly-Meets-Game-Maker/

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/05/02/game-creator-alpha-microsoft-popfly-does-silverlight-games/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/microsoft-introduces-popfly-for-games-in-silverlight/

Silverlight as an IM client

http://silverlightbiz.blogspot.com/2008/05/silverlight-as-instant-messaging-client.html

Stand alone Multiplatform Silverligh App

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/05/02/stand-alone-multiplatform-silverlight-application.aspx

Skinning an ebmeddable SL2 media player

Good article on how to skin the media player:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/05/02/creating-a-skinnable-silverlight-media-player.aspx

Error Reporting in SL: Ruby and Python

http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2008/05/error-reporting-in-silverlight-ruby-and.html