SL resigned for NBC 2010 Olympics coverage
"Microsoft and NBC Universal (NBCU) have announced they're teaming back up for the 2010 Vancouver Games. The win for Microsoft's Silverlight platform comes on the heels of Major League baseball dumping it for Adobe Flash, but CBS is happy to Silverlight to streaming HD video." - [More]
http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/microsoft-silverlight-resigned-nbc-2010-olympics-coverage/2009-03-19Using SL2 with ADO.NET Data Services - Data Points
"ADO.NET Data Services makes it tremendously easy to expose data and allow updates over HTTP using its RESTful (Representational State Transfer) abilities. Your Silverlight applications can take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services to send and receive data using the unique URIs that map to entities. You can also use LINQ queries in the Silverlight client to interact with the entities on the server by using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library. " - [More]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd569758.aspxSL3 Activity Control
"All of this presents a fairly common problem: what should you do with your UI while data is being loaded or work is being done in the background? If the amount of work done or data to load is small and completes quickly, it would probably make sense to leave the experience uninterrupted for the user. For larger amounts of work, however, leaving the user with an unresponsive UI or worse with a responsive UI that doesn’t work properly because data is in the midst of being reloaded is less than ideal." - [More]
http://www.davidpoll.com/?p=4Building Amazing LOB apps with SL2
"Today at Mix09, I finished my talk on building business applications with Silverlight 3. The full video for the talk will be up shortly, but I wanted to go ahead and post the source code for the demo and a full demo walk through. " - More
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/03/17/mix09-building-amazing-business-applications-with-silverlight-3.aspxDundas Data Visualization Dashboard
"This is a Dashboard design that makes use of Dundas’ new Dundas Chart for .NET – Silverlight Add-on (which is now in beta, but coming to version 7.0 of Dundas Chart)." - [More]
http://www.dashboardinsight.com/dashboards/live-dashboards/dundas_silverlight_demo_dashboard.aspx