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Sudoko Helper

If you have ever been stuck in a Sudoko puzzle, here is a good helper for you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/08/21/time-for-a-little-fun-and-games-silverlight-helps-play-sudoku.aspx

Breeze Designer

3D Modelling tool now supports Silverligth:

http://www.naskhan.com/2007/08/21/new-3d-silverlight-tool/

Communicate between Flex and Silverlight?

Not sure why you would want to, but here are the details:

http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/08/20/communicate-between-flex-and-silverlight-using-javascript/

Dojo Adds Silverlight Effects Support

http://drawk.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/dojo-adds-silverlight-effects-support/

Enhance you file uploads with Silverlight

Josh Twist shows you how to use the OpenFileDialog and other extras to upload multiple files and enhance the user experience:

http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Enhance_your_file_uploads_with_Silverlight.aspx

Silverlight soon to run in Opera

Seems there are problems getting Silverlight to work in Opera but from the sounds of this post, it should be soon:

http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/08/23/whats-happening-with-silverlight-for-opera/

Microsoft's Partner Site using Silverlight

Microsoft on the move to use Silverlight.  Here is a page with a few Silverlight components:

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/digitalwpc/#

MSN Election Guide

New Silverlight/AJAX page for browsing search results for the different candidates based on different issues.

http://election.msn.com/podium08.aspx

Silverlight 30 Day Sprint

Matt Casto decided to get serious about Silverlight.  Follow his journey on his "Silverlight 30 Day Sprint":


http://mattcasto.blogspot.com/2007/08/silverlight-30-day-sprint-day-1.html

Silverlight 1.0 Released and Linux support

A little slow on this post as have been greatly busy on another project, but had to point out a post on Scott Guthrie's blog:

Silverlight 1.0 Rleased and Silverlight for Linux Annouced:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/09/04/silverlight-1-0-released-and-silverlight-for-linux-announced.aspx

Silverlight Controls - The path to reusable XAML

Excellent article by Justin-Josef Angel[MVP]:

"We, as developers have not been given proper tools and instructions on how to develop reusable Silverlight objects. Let's see if we can start right now. We're going to see there're four ways right now out there trying to do reusable Silverlight"

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/justinangel/archive/2007/08/14/Silverlight-Controls-_2D00_-The-path-to-reusable-XAML.aspx

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Just a reminder, anyone can add listings to:

http://www.SilverlightCity.com
http://www.TheSilverlightDirectory.com

And if you know of good articles, demos, applications, blogs, etc for WPF, be sure to add a few listings to:

http://www.TheWPFDirectory.com

AJAX, Flash, Silverlight, or javaFX, must we choose?

Article by Ric Smith:

http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/417624.htm

Python Silverlight fan?

If so you might be interested in a few posts:

• Opening Files with Silverlight and the OpenFileDialog


• Silverlight Web IDE 0.2.0


• IsolatedStorageFile in Silverlight


• Using System.Windows.Downloader with Silverlight

At: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_08_18.shtml#e803

Silverlight Downloader works both with file system and online

For V1.1 Alpha Refresh in C#:

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/08/silverlight-downloader-which-works-both.html

Silverlight Adventures - part 2

http://danny-t.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/19/silverlight-adventures-part-2/

Hello Silverlight!

A getting started with Silverlight article by Azam Sharp:

http://thedotnetguy.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=245

Should I wait for V1.1?

Post by Jesse Liberty talking over waiting for Version 1.1 of Silverlight or get going now:

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2007/08/17/should-i-wait-for-1-1.aspx

Silverlight + ASP.NET AJAX = Good Times

AdoGuy creating a graph:

http://adoguy.com/2007/08/18/Silverlight_ASP_NET_AJAX_=_Good_Times.aspx

Silverlight Cream adding on!

Silverlight Cream a posting topic of news about Silverlight by Dave Campbell is now expanding out to a website form instead of just blog entries:


http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2007/08/19/114775.aspx

More on MediaPreview.TV

Don Burnett is excited about the new media site and has posted some of his thoughts about it at:

http://blog.donburnett.com/2007/08/silverlight-video-site-supreme.html

Video:implementing silverlight controls in 1.0

New screencast showing how to implement and consume custom controls in Silverlight 1.0 using the createFromXaml method:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/19/implement-user-control-in-silverlight-user-controls.aspx

Silverlight Examples

An updated list of Silverlight Examples:

http://silverlighting.blogspot.com/2007/08/silverlight-examples-michael-blog.html

JavaScript Intellisense Bug in VS 2008 Beta 2

INtellisense breaks on split files:

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/08/javascript-intellisense-bug-in-orcas.html" target="_blank">http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/08/javascript-intellisense-bug-in-orcas.html

Giving the term Web 2.0 A Whole New Meaning

Jesse Liberty comments about an article by Rockford Lhotka one Silverlight:

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2007/08/17/giving-the-term-web-2-0-a-whole-new-meaning.aspx


http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/08/javascript-intellisense-bug-in-orcas.html" target="_blank">http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/08/javascript-intellisense-bug-in-orcas.html

Standalone Silverlight PhotoViewer WepPart

Just released to CodePlex with source code:

http://binaryjam.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/standalone-silverlight-photoviewer-on-codeplex/

Managed Programming in Silverlight 1.1 (Part I)

An introduction to Silverlight 1.1:

http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,2171874,00.asp

BBC iPlayer, Silverlight, DRM and PlayReady?

Article talking about DRM with the BBC iPlayer:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/silverlight_iplayer_playready/

Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo app

Brad Abrams has a post about Steve Marx new demo application:

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/08/16/cool-new-asp-net-3-5-and-silverlight-demo-application.aspx

Emotions Alive at Blitz

http://visitmix.com/Blogs/Joshua/emotions-alive-at-blitz/

Mark Johnston on Partner TV about Silverlight

http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/2007/08/15/silverlight-interview-with-me-on-partner-tv.aspx

What skills do you need "Before" learning Silverlight

Do you need specific skills before you begin Silverlight development?

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2007/08/15/what-skills-do-you-need-before-learning-silverlight.aspx

New Silverlight Videos

New Silverlight videos appeared at Silverlight.net/learn.  They include:

For V1.0 -

• Create a Video Library Player part 1 & 2


• Workign with Media Element Events


• Making Sense of Keyframes


• Drad and Drop Functionality in Silverlight


• Use Silverlight with Web services

http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx#video225

Some Silverlight Demos to check out

Ian Griffith posted some Silverlight Demos he used at Applied Silverlight course.  They are up to be viewed even if you did not attened the course:

http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2007/08/15/oslodemos

The .NET Show Final Episode

While this has been posted around the Silverlight world as this video is of Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander talking about Silverlight, it appears to be an older video.  Scott mentions just getting back from Mix and they talk about Silverlight V1.0 beta.  Still intersting to watch:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode.aspx?xml=theshow/en/episode063/manifest.xml

Thougths on Web 2.0, etc

More thought from John Carroll about Silverlight and Volta:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1738

The UX Revolution

Greg DeMichillie ponders Silverlight and its acceptance:

http://reddevnews.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=1878

Andy's Fridge

Andy Beaulieu decided he needed a demo for a talk in a few months, so he built "Andy's Fridge" which is an unusual beer database.  Well done! Even comes with source code:

http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Home/tabid/67/EntryID/79/Default.aspx

Microsoft Expression Blend 2 August Preview Refresh

It appears there is another version of Blend 2 out.  Not sure what I have, it says I have 180 days remaining and is version 2.0.1075.0.  It seems to create a Silverlight project okay, so maybe it is the update.  

Here is more info on the Blend 2 August Preview Refresh Again version:

http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2007/08/14/expression-blend-2-august-preview-bits-have-been-refreshed.aspx

The publish date on the download though is August 14th, so mine must be out of date.

*Note* After installing, it now has a version number in the about box of: 2.0.1077.0.  So it is newer than the one I downloaded at the first of August.

Webcasts you might not want to miss

There are some webcasts coming up soon for ASP.NET and .NET 3.0+:

http://dotnetguts.blogspot.com/2007/08/webcasts-on-aspnet-and-net-framework-30_15.html

Flowers-For-You.com.my

http://www.flowers-for-you.com.my

Site built using Silverlight.  Animation can be a bit of a pain, but at least it is a good starting point.  Here is a review of the site (where I found out about it):

http://kokchiann.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/malaysian-florist-site-adopts-silverlight/

Project Astoria for data service

http://silverlighting.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-project-codename.html

http://silverlighting.blogspot.com/2007/08/project-astoria-team-blog-create-your.html

Silverlight and Javascript Interaction

Here is a good useful read:

http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/08/15/silverlight-and-javascript-interaction/

MediaPreview.tv

Silverlight media site:

http://mediapreview.tv/