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Slides and Demos from my MIX10 Session

The slides and demos from my MIX10 session "Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight" can be found here.  This package includes the following:  
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Two Silverlight TV Episodes on Silverlight for Windows Phone

I sat down with John Papa to record two Silverlight for Windows Phone videos at MIX.  Check them out: Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight   Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight
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Mix 10 Rollup Post

Piles of interesting stuff going on at Mix 10 this week. Here's a link rollup with all the details and downloads that you might care about. (As well as a few blatant plugs for my own sessions.) First: Watch Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes on demand. See recorded...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client

To continue our series , let
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Mix 2010: Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone Video Now Online

See it here…...( read more )...(read more)
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New Seesmic applications on Silverlight 4 and on Windows Phone

A few months ago, at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, in Ray Ozzie's keynote , Seesmic introduced a preview release of its Twitter application on Windows ( Seesmic for Windows ). Seesmic has a very active community and got a lot of feedback...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services

OData is an emerging set of extensions for the ATOM protocol that makes it easier to share data over the web. To show off OData in RIA Services, let
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Silverlight TV 16: Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty Talk about Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10

  While at MIX10, John catches up with Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer to discuss their favorite features in Silverlight 4 on this episode of Silverlight TV . Along with calling out and discussing why they're each impressed with their favorite features...(read more)
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Free Webinar on March 18th

The live streaming of the Olympic Winter Games presented challenges of tremendous scale and complexity, ultimately delivering more than 45 million live streams over 710 million page views! Online Olympics viewers enjoyed a vastly improved quality of experience...(read more)
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Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone

Here are two great blog posts on Expression Blend 4: The first is by Kenny Young, Wizard of Layout on the Expression Blend team. Kenny describes dynamic layout, transitions and layout morphing in Expression Blend in great detail. A detailed sample project...(read more)
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Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I

At Mix, in Las Vegas, we just introduced Blend 4. One of the new features that got great excitement is path-based layout. Let me tell you a bit more about it Path-based layout opens many interesting creative possibilities, way beyond just laying out things...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing Data from Entity Framework

To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application.  The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources.  From a SQL Database, from Oracle...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client

To continue our series , let
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index

With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all-but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the key features of the platform and tools that make Silverlight a fantastic platform for building business applications.    I
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Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template

To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code.  The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template.  It describes a prescriptive...(read more)
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Designing for the Windows Phone

Learn how to get started building Windows Phone applications using Expression Blend....( read more )...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW

At Mix10 this morning in Vegas ScottGu announced that Silverlight 4 and RIA Services RC are available for download now!  These bits work great with VS2010 RC .  We have some great videos, and updated samples already posted on http://silverlight...(read more)
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Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

Silverlight TV is here at MIX10 where Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and Silverlight just became the best match since peanut butter and chocolate! Mike Harsh , Program Manager for the Silverlight team working on WP7, joins John Papa to demonstrate the WP7 device...(read more)
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Silverlight TV 15: Announcing Silverlight 4 RC at MIX 10

  John and Adam discuss Silverlight 4 RC , following up the MIX10 keynote announcement of Silverlight 4 RC by discussing what is new and what materials have been released on the Channel 9 learning center website. They cover their picks for some of...(read more)
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New in the Silverlight 4 RC: XAML Features

Today, the Silverlight 4 RC was announced and made available to the masses.  But you may be asking yourself: what
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MIX10

To say that MIX day 1 was a big day for Silverlight is a bit of an understatement. You can watch the details of it yourself up here on the visit mix website; Watch the keynote and if you then want to follow up and grab Silverlight 4 bits then visit; Silverlight...(read more)
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Recap of MIX10 Day 1

We kicked off MIX10 this morning to a packed house of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative consumer-facing and enterprise Web and desktop applications. Attendees come from around the world and represent top web sites...(read more)
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