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Silverlight Annotations - Problem on Macs

Seems that compatiblity is not quite complete yet, but not far away:

http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2007/07/15/SilverlightAnnotationInSafariForWindows.aspx

Author of a new Silverlight book asks for help

http://cornucopia30.blogspot.com/2007/07/silverlight-11-in-action-book.html

Microsoft luring UK students with Silverlight

Kind of made my stomach turn :)

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/students/studentportal/default.mspx

Auto-code generation for Silverlight Controls

http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2007/07/13/auto-code-generation-for-silverlight-controls.aspx

Market adoption proves the "why" of RIAs

Ryan Stewart's new post about Rich Internet Applications:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=452

Visual Studio 2008 in 2007?

Microsoft's new Visual Studio 2008 may just appear in 2007 and have be released again in Feb 2008:

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/07/13/MS-visualstudio_1.html

As a side note, rumor has it that VS Orcas (vs 2008) Beta 2 will be available this month.  I guess we will have to wait and see!

Video about the Silverlight Airlines demo

This is one of my favorite demos being a persont that use search a lot for flights.

http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/microsoft-silverlight-airlines/

Using Silverlight in a Groove Space

Using Microsoft Groove?

http://mindjetlabs.com/cs/blogs/synergist/archive/2007/07/16/Using-Silverlight-in-a-Groove-Space.aspx

Newest Skills Hurdle

I think most developers can feel the pain of staying current with the vast array of technology flowing out today.  It is much like trying to get a drink from a fire hose.

http://reddevnews.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=1837

Preparing for Silverlight 1.0 RC

Tim Sneath posted about the RC versions being released within the next few weeks, I am waiting for 1.1 Betas to come out:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/13/preparing-for-silverlight-1-0-rc-and-beyond.aspx

Silverlight Video answer for PhotoAlbum

http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2007/07/13/Silverlight-Video-on-my-PhotoAlbum-website--Going-in-holidays.aspx

New videos on Silverlight.net

For 1.0 there is:

Working with silverlight Host Object

How to build a silverilght Control

For 1.0 and Blend:

Create a Video Player using Plend - Part 1

http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx#video206

Accessing ASP.NET App Services from Silverlight Part 3

Mike continues the series with the new part 3:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2007/07/18/accessing-asp-net-application-services-from-silverlight-part-3.aspx

Project Silverlight 1.1 now at part 16!

Yep, LiquidBoy has posted part 16 of his series of create a iTune app in Silverlight 1.1a:

http://advertboy.wordpress.com/tag/project-silverlight-11/