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Ryan Stewart's "Demo of Silverlight on Linux running outside the browser coming in June" mentions about the progress of the Moonlight project:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=402

Twofour digital WebTV solutions to use Silverlight!

http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=62173

C# Limitations in Silverlight?  VB not limited..

http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/VB-JScript-Compiler

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-01-2.html

Automated Silverlight Application Testing Part1:

http://artoftestinc.blogspot.com/2007/05/automated-testing-of-silverlight.html

Michael Schwarz's Running managed JavaScript in Silverlight:

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/05/31/running-managed-javascript-in-silverlight.aspx

Convert Ink to xaml:

http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2007/06/01/silverlight-convert-ink-to-xaml.aspx

Silverlight and JSON by Michael Schwarz:

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/06/01/silverlight-and-json-isolatedstorage-example.aspx

Applied Silverlight course announced:

http://pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2007/06/01/47612.aspx

Michael Schwarz's "Silverlight 1.0 and OnLoad":

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/06/01/silverlight-1-0-and-onload.aspx

Yet another great post on Michael Schwarz's site for a listing of Silverlight Exmples:

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/06/04/silverlight-examples.aspx

"Why XML in Silverlight is Significant":

http://aspadvice.com/blogs/davidwalker/archive/2007/06/04/Synergist-_3A00_-Why-XML-in-Silverlight-is-Significant.aspx

Tips on configuring IIS 5.0/6.0 to server Silverlight apps by Chris Craft:

http://www.cjcraft.com/Blog/2007/05/08/HowToConfigureIIS50AndIIS60ToDeploySilverlightApplications.aspx

Longhorn server to help serve up Silverlight streaming video (first time I heard of Silverlight to be called a "Streaming platform"):

http://www.beet.tv/2007/05/new_longhorn_se.html

Popfly updated, lots added:

http://www.brethorsting.com/uidesign/2007/06/come_get_your_fresh_updated_popfly.html

An interesting post on the Frankarr blog with some good links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/archive/2007/05/30/spreading-the-word-about-silverlight-to-bandt.aspx

Silverlight controls in Orcas Beta 1 and silverlight SDK:

http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2007/05/28/silverlight-and-controls.aspx


Microsoft and Facebook, Popfly and more:

http://wavesmash.blogspot.com/2007/05/microsoft-and-facebook-announce.html

Cool swinging rope effect blowing in the wind By K. Scott Allen:

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2007/05/28/10897.aspx

Talk about SEO, Ajax and Silverlight:

http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=163

More Silverlight controls?  New DLR controls:

http://ironpython-urls.blogspot.com/2007/05/silverlight-components.html

http://vistasmalltalk.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/silverlight-components-scrollviewer/

How about Silverlight and F#?  Here is the game of Life using Silverlight and F#:

Robert Pickering's blog posts:
http://strangelights.com/blog/archive/2007/05/25/1584.aspx
http://strangelights.com/blog/archive/2007/05/28/1585.aspx

The game:
http://www.strangelights.com/fsharp/silverlight/life.aspx

Catching up on what has been happening, I found:

Delay blog posted Silverlight XPS viewer - http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/05/22/lighting-up-the-xml-paper-specification-proof-of-concept-xps-reader-for-silverlight.aspx

At Web.Next there is a posting: "Silverlight:Convert Text to Path" - http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2007/05/22/silverlight-convert-text-to-path.aspx

Watch out for the Toucan Silverlight sample..  It has a catch tune once you get "2" it... :)  - http://www.hoffmancentral.org/sample/silverlight.htm

Microsoft's ASP.nET Futures Releases has a few new Silverlight controls: - http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=8598

Karsten Januszewski post three new Expresion Blend labs - http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/22/three-new-expression-blend-hands-on-labs.aspx

This video (using Silverlight) may not have a lot of information, but should embed the word "remix" into your mind as did "Developers, developers, developers..."  -  http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1937

Here is a nice "getting started" page - http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/ejadib/archive/2007/05/19/Silverlight_3A00_-Where-to-start_3F00_.aspx

This was kind of interesting, Jeff Prosise's 3D comic book cover viewer: http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2007/05/22/jeff-prosise-s-3d-comic-book-cover-viewer.aspx

Not sure if I have posted this before, but "Silverlight Hello World in C# from VS 2005 could be interesting for some who do not want to use the Orca's! - http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/archive/2007/05/02/silverlight-hello-world-in-c-from-vs-2005.aspx

Abhishek Kant has a post on "Posting a Silverlight Streaming video on your blog":

http://www.abhishekkant.net/2007/05/posting-silverlight-streaming-video-on.html

Here is another post on making a Vista Sidebar Gadget using Silverlight by Ben Hall:

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/05/vista-sidebar-gadget-using-silverlight.html

Also on his blog is a post giving his impression of JavaFX:

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/05/what-is-javafx.html

Also of interest on his blog, a post on how to add Silverlight syntax to Visual Studio's Intellisense:

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/05/silverlight-10-intellisense-in-visual.html

You might also check out this part 1 post of building a search application in Silverlight.  In this first installment the post describes how to work with the HTML input within Silverlight:

http://blogs.msdn.com/vivekd/archive/2007/05/28/part-i-search-application-html-silverlight.aspx

I managed to miss a few items lately.  It appears that Opera will now gain Silverlight support in Addition to Firefox and IE:

http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=8538

Tim Sneath's Ten reasons to use Silverlight:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/introducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx

For those that have not heard, you can get 4 GB of storage for your files at:

http://silverlight.live.com

And a bit more on steaming and the Expression Media Encoder at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/30/silverlight-streaming-is-now-live.aspx

And..

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/05/01/mix-session-overview-silverlight-creating-and-delivering-amazing-video-experiences-on-the-web.aspx

And..

http://www.seanalexander.com/2007/04/19/Top10QuestionsAboutExpressionMediaEncoder.aspx

For those of us jumping in the Silverlight pond, Telerik looking into Silverlight also:

http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight/overview.aspx

You might also check out Joe Stegman's VideoSearch sample with source:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/archive/2007/05/10/updated-videosearch-sample.aspx

Laurence Moroney's article: "Get started building a deeper experience across the web" that apears in the June 2007 MSDN Magazine:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/Silverlight/

There is also a post that has many of the links I have posted in past along with some new ones such as the client-side SVG to XAML converter:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SilverlightSamples.aspx

Microsoft is at it again.  They are in the alpha version of a thing called "Popfly".  It is supposed to be a tool for people to build mashups, gadgets and web pages and share those resources with others.  On the surface it sounds a little useless, but when you look a little deeper, it has the power to really be a serious service.  First, you should watch the Popfly screencast at:

http://www.popfly.ms/Overview/Default.aspx

The first part of the video just seems a bit fluffy, it is nice to know it is built with Silverlight, there is a lot of power there.  I would like to have all their controls :).

After a bit, the linking of blocks kind of reminds me of Biztalk server or even the old dream of COM.  You simply have blocks of functionality and you link them together.  It is interesting how you can link those blocks together by combining multiple blocks as a data source to feed a another block.  That was pretty cool, even though the linkage was Javascript.

The sharing aspect is a different world from my mindset.  The open forum where people can modify and build new blocks out of your parts and then share those could really end up with some power down the road.  I am sure there are commercial aspects in there somewhere, but as just an open community, it will be interesting to see what comes down the road.

After watching the integration with Visual Studio, I can see where this would have great potential on corporate intranets with the power of collaboration.  Having a good collection of functionality blocks could offer a great deal of services for the employees.  It could take some of the workload of the developers in the corporation for custom reports and data mining.

Of course, in my world, I wonder where the commercial aspects of this come into play.  Developing and providing blocks, applications, web page enhancements?  What about a payment system, who would you handle licensing, marketing, etc?  It is alpha and I am sure this questions will come up later down the road.

It is good to see what can be down with Silverlight and be cross platform!

Cool Physics modeler on I found on Mike Harsh's blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2007/05/24/chris-cavanagh-s-silverlight-physics-simulator.aspx

Embedding fonts in SIlverlight - http://wpf-e.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2B248D261D0E0035!122.entry

Atlas team blog has a few posts about SEO:

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/05/24/search-engine-optimization-for-silverlight-and-ajax.aspx

http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=163

http://blogs.msdn.com/jhawk/archive/2007/05/23/searching-enabling-silverlight-and-ajax-web-applications.aspx

Handling Zip files with Silverlight on the Mossy Blog -  http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/05/27/did-you-know-silverlight-allows-zip-assets.aspx

along with "Wirting Silverlight with Coldfusion (my question is who would want to?) - http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/05/27/writing-silverlight-with-coldfusion.aspx

CJCraft's blog has a post about Custom clock block for Popfly - http://www.cjcraft.com/Blog/2007/05/26/MicrosoftPopflyChrisCraftsCustomClockBlock.aspx

along with a Popfly cheatsheet - http://www.cjcraft.com/Blog/2007/05/26/MicrosoftPopflyCheatSheet.aspx

Silverlight and C# in Oracas Beta 1 post by Charlie Clavert - http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2007/05/21/silverlight-and-c-in-orcas-beta-1.aspx

Another quick overview of Silverlight - http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2007/05/23/silverlight-excitement.aspx