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WPF+SL2 Silverlight Clients

Screencast of Twitter cleitns in WPF and SIlverlight:

http://www.aeoth.net/blog/2008/08/02/screencast-wpfsl2-silverlight-clients/

One Perspective on Silverlight

Matt Davey writes about his impression of Silverlight:

http://www.ddj.com/web-development/209900978

Set as "Start Page"

http://weblogs.asp.net/hpreishuber/archive/2008/07/31/set-as-start-page-silverlight-xaml.aspx

ASMX Services & XmlSerializer

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2008/07/31/10659.aspx

DataBinding & DataTemplates in Blend

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

Show/Hide a Border and other Border fun

http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/07/30/show-hide-a-border-and-other-border-fun.aspx

Silverlight Desktop Application Launcher

Simple tool to launch Silverlight apps from your desktop.  Surely Microsoft will move more in this direction in the near future (hoping...)

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2008/07/silverlight-desktop-application.html

Switch SilverLight UserControl

http://littletalk.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/switch-silverlight-usercontrol/

Silverlight and Drupal

http://aquaseal.cilon.com/silverlight/connecting-drupal-and-silverlight

Asynchronous is Evil!

Here is a good post about people complaining about Silverlight not supporting synchronous web requests.  If you are one of those you should read this.  If you are not and what to know what the fuss is all about, give it a read:

http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com/2008/07/omg-silverlight-asynchronous-is-evil.html

A quick look at Silverlight with IronRuby

http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2008/07/quick-look-at-silverlight-with-ironruby.html

Earn money with Silverlight Streaming

Got this in MSDN Flash today.  They are working on embedding ads into Silverlight streaming content.  Kind of a Google Adsense for Silverlight content but from Microsoft:

http://silverlight.live.com/

NFL to Silverlight - Showing Love

Silicon Alley Insider reported yesterday that an announcement would be made announcing NBC live coverage of Sunday Night Football during the 2008 season over the web. That’s right. Streaming games, multiple camera angles, instant in-home replay, statistics and more:

http://technosailor.com/2008/07/28/nbc-nfl-deal-puts-adobe-one-more-step-back/

Controlling your Treadmil with SL?

Check this one out:

http://pagebrooks.com/archive/2008/07/28/controlling-your-treadmill-from-silverlight---part-1.aspx

Silverlight Write and Win Contest Winners

http://www.silverlightshow.net/news/Silverlight-Write-Win-the-Winners.aspx

Layout Fundamentals Part 2 - Layout Containers

Here is part two of the Layout Fundamentals by Dave Relyea:

http://blogs.msdn.com/devdave/archive/2008/07/26/layout-fundamentals-part-2-layout-containers.aspx

More Polygon Physics with Silverlight

http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Home/tabid/67/rssid/2/Default.aspx

New Nibbles Tutorials

If you have not been to NibblesTutorials lately, you might check them out:

http://nibblestutorials.net/

Watch out for the 360 panarama sample though, can make you motion sick :)

Another blog to check out

If you have not been there before, you might check out:

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

Lots of good stuff there!

New Silverlight Game Contest

$1,000 first place!

http://www.teamzonesports.com/home/SilverlightGameContest

List of articles to keep you busy

Here is a list of artcles by Dan Wahlin:

Getting Started with Silverlight
Using Microsoft's Silverlight Control in a Web Site
Understanding Silverlight's createObject and createObjectEx Methods
Silverlight XAML Primer 1: Exploring Canvases
Silverlight XAML Primer 2: Rectangles, Ellipses, Lines and Text
Silverlight XAML Primer 3: Working with Image Brushes
Silverlight XAML Primer 4: Working with Linear Gradients
Silverlight XAML Primer 5: Working with Radial Gradients
Silverlight XAML Primer 6: Using Inline XAML with Silverlight
Silverlight XAML Primer 7: Embedding Media into Silverlight
Silverlight XAML Primer 8: Working with XAML Events
Silverlight XAML Primer 9: Using the Silverlight Downloader Object
Working with Events in Silverlight
Silverlight XAML Primer 10: Creating a Silverlight Downloader Progress Bar
Silverlight XAML Primer 11: Getting Started with Animations
Silverlight XAML Primer 12: Using Linear Keyframe Animations
Silverlight XAML Primer 13: Starting and Stopping Animations
Silverlight XAML Primer 14: Using Color Animations
Silverlight XAML Primer 15: Enhancing TextBlock with Runs and LineBreaks
Introducing Silverlight 2.0
Socket Support in Silverlight 2: Part I
Socket Support in Silverlight 2: Part II
Creating Your First Silverlight 2 Application
Getting Started with Silverlight 2 Controls
Using Silverlight 2 Layout Controls (New!)
Using the StackPanel Control (New !)

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2008/07/22/my-latest-silverlight-articles.aspx

CLR Inside Out

Here is an article for you from MSDN Magazine.  It helps you understand what is and is not included in the Silverlight CLR and why:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc721609.aspx

Four new QuickApps released

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/07/25/new-windows-live-platform-quick-applications-released.aspx

Telerik Announces Q2 2008 Release

RadControls Beta for Silverlight:

http://www.pr-inside.com/telerik-announces-landmark-q2-2008-release-r722794.htm

Tip: How to add Sound, Music and Video to an SL app

http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/07/25/tip-of-the-day-22-how-to-add-sound-effects-music-and-video-to-your-silverlight-app.aspx

IDV Virtual Earth / Slverlight Demo

http://virtualearth4gov.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!369B39F890CE30C1!1245.entry

Tall Skinny Data Columns

Multiple narrow tall columns wrapping data:

http://michaelsync.net/2008/07/23/tall-skinny-data-columns-using-improved-wrappanel-for-silverlightmatt-perdeck

GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming

http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/07/23/gamefest-2008-silverlight-game-programming.aspx

Desktop Silverlight Apps

Need for desktop power!

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2008/07/desktop-silverlight-applications-part.html

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2008/07/silverlight-desktop-applications-part-2.html

Open Source Virtual Earth Wrapper

http://michaelsync.net/2008/07/23/views-opensource-virtual-earth-wrapper-for-silverlight

InitalizeError #2103 - Invalid or malformed application?

Have you run into this error?  Check this out:

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/alex_golesh/archive/2008/07/22/quick-silverlight-tip-quot-initializeerror-2103-invalid-or-malformed-application-quot-what-is-it-and-how-to-deal-with-it.aspx

Silverlight Listbox Basics

The basics on how to create and use the ListBox control in Silverlight 2.0:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mahesh/SilverlightListBox07212008115956AM/SilverlightListBox.aspx

Convention Coverage a Click Away

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_9953394

Secure your client side code?

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1131194.htm