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
Publication date: 2010-03-16
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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)
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Start preparing for the Silverlight Pivot control now
At MIX10 we just announced that Pivot, a new data visualization technology first demonstrated at PDC by Live Labs, is coming to Silverlight as a control this summer. Pivot enables users to see thousands of items at once and explore the relationships that...(read more)
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Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview available for download
Expression Blend 4 Beta is out in the wild and available for download! As a companion whitepaper, check out the Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview which provides a walkthrough of the new features. Here
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Pete Blois on Expression Blend, Windows Phone, Rooler
A month ago I recorded this video with Expression Blend PM Pete Blois . Pete is a great guy to talk with, especially if you're interested in Expression Blend. We chatted about Silverlight 4, Silverlight for Windows Phone (and the Blend designer for that...(read more)
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Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application
Silverlight for Windows Phone is one of the most exciting things to come along since the original release of Silverlight. Now I can take my same Silverlight/WPF skills and use them not only on the web, and on the desktop, but also on the Windows Phone...(read more)
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A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC
At MIX10, Silverlight 4 released an update, the Silverlight 4 RC (release candidate). A few things have changed since the beta which was released in November. If you haven
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Silverlight 4 RC Announced at MIX 2010!
If you
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Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language
Michael Smuga, Albert Shum and Chad Roberts have a talk at Mix about Windows Phone UI and Design Language. The talk is in Mandalay Ballroom A from 3:30pm to 4:30pm.
Like all mix videos, it will also be made available as online video at http://live.visitmix...(read more)
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New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services
I recently published two new interview videos on Channel 9, both with product team folks here at Microsoft. You'll also see that I've redone the video overlays to bring them in line with my site theme. Love it? Hate it? Let me know. Henry Sowizral The...(read more)
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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/14/2010
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #16, the last one before all the MIX festivities. Sending this one out a day early so I can make my flight on Sunday. In preparation for all the coolness at MIX, make sure you have your Silverlight/WPF/XNA development...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-14
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.toolbox
Woohoo, the site is live! .toolbox is a free online training program where designers and developers can learn to create Silverlight applications using Expression Studio and to apply basic UX concepts to their solutions.
I was lucky enough to get...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-13
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The MIX10 Trivia Application - Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET
Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing...(read more)
Publication date: 2010-03-13
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