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)
Publication date: 2010-03-17
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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
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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)
Publication date: 2010-03-17
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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)
Publication date: 2010-03-17
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Open Source Media Framework: Introduction and overview
Discover the Open Source Media Framework and how it can dramatically lower the time, costs, and risks of creating your video and media players.
Publication date: 2010-03-16
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Skinning a Flex 4 desktop application with MXML graphics
Create and use a custom application skin with Flex 4 and MXML graphics.
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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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Introducing Expression Blend for Windows Phone
Windows Phone is an amazing platform to use and to design applications for. We are very proud to make a preview version of authoring for Windows Phone available with Expression Blend 4. Downloads will be available around 10:45am today at http://developer...(read more)
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Docs for Silverlight 4 RC now available
See the online MSDN docs or get the Silverlight 4 RC Offline MSDN Documentation CHM . The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot...(read more)
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Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development
So the news is out! Silverlight IS the platform for Windows Phone 7 Series development! Sweet. We also made available an update to Silverlight 4 that you might be interested in too! You may be wondering how you get started. If you are new to Silverlight...(read more)
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Silverlight 4 RC & Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP!
Go download the Silverlight 4 RC! Runtime (PC, Mac)
Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
Expression Blend 4 Beta
Silverlight Toolkit
WCF RIA Services Just a few of my favorite new SL4 RC features since the Beta: Full screen pinning (watch videos...(read more)
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Introducing Blend 4
It feels like it was only yesterday when we boarded the plane to fly to Las Vegas to Mix 2009, where we announced Blend 3 and SketchFlow. Thank you all so much for the wonderful reception you gave to Blend 3, by the way.
I can hardly believe it is time...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15
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Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (RC)
Not too long ago, at PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta. Silverlight 4 beta added a ton of new capabilities over what we had with Silverlight 3. Today, we announced the Release Candidate for Silverlight 4, bringing Silverlight 4 one step closer to...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-15
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