Silverlight News

Silverlight 4 MSDN Offline and Online Docs Updated - Jul 14, 2010

"Just uploaded new versions of offline and online MSDN documentation. The offline CHM is great for fast offline access and best of all, it's just Silverlight docs. You won't get any other technologies mixed up in your search results, index, etc."

Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released - Jul 14, 2010

"Its time to start building more applications and games for Windows Phone 7. Developer tools beta for Windows Phone has been released. Few important updates in the beta are..."

File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability - Jul 10, 2010

"You all know that, Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with COM APIs. In my earlier posts I already mentioned various Interoperability functionalities of Silverlight."

Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer - Jul 9, 2010

"Yesterday (7-Jul-2010), the Silverlight Media Framework v2 was released on Codeplex (yeah, it’s Open Source).  If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a Silverlight framework encapsulating the best practices for media playback for Silverlight applications."

Silverlight is the way to go... - July 8, 2010

"Okay, I am totally biased toward Silverlight; I could tell you a million reasons why you should be building Silverlight apps, all of which you can take with a grain of salt due to my bias as part of the Silverlight developer content team."

Silverlight PivotViewer Control is Here! - Jun 29, 2010

"Many of you have been waiting in anticipation for the Silverlight PivotViewer to build collections and embed them on your website, and today this control is available to Silverlight developers."

Silverlight powers the new Windows Live Hotmail - Jun 24, 2010

"With the public beta availability of the new Windows Live Hotmail on June 15th 2010, the service’s more than 360 million active users can enjoy several key features that are powered by Microsoft Silverlight, mostly around sharing documents and photos"

Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released - May 18, 2010

"The final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services is now available for download."

Silverlight 4 Ships Today! - 15th April, 2010

"We shipped today!  WAAHOO!!!  And this time, we’ve packaged up all the dev tools (including the runtime) in one package."

Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications - 16th April, 2010

"Each release of Silverlight it is the goal to make sure existing Silverlight applications continue to work.  Since I think what this means causes some confusion I’m going to do my best to explain what we mean by this."

VS 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension v2 - April 14th, 2010

"I’ve come to appreciate the new Visual Studio 2010 code editor IntelliSense features like Pascal case lookup and the narrowing list that is presented as you type.  Unfortunately, these new code editor features did not make it into the XAML Editor."

Silverlight Manic Miner - April 13th, 2010

"This game has been around for a while on Silverlight but I love this classic ZX Spectrum remake."

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released - April 13th, 2010

"The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available.  Today's release is a big one – and brings with it a ton of new feature and capabilities."

Silverlight 4 to be Released April 12th - Mar 23, 2010

"Join us for the Launch of both Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010! And get three days of get in-depth sessions from the best speakers in the industry!"

An exclusive interview with Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty - Mar 10, 2010

"Earlier today I had a chance to have an exclusive interview with both Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty! The focus was obviously Silverlight, but I had a good mixed bag of questions so hopefully there is something for everyone to find a little interesting!"

Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog - Mar 11, 2010

"The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs – namely AssemblyCatalog, TypeCatalog and AggregateCatalog. They’re pretty easy to understand and I made a screencast on the topic here."

Avoiding Uninstall/Reinstall when Debugging Out-of-Browser Apps - Feb 19, 2010

"Every few weeks I muck around with an out-of-browser application with the Silverlight 4 Beta.

Every few weeks I have to look up what I need to do to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling my out-of-browser application every time I debug.  Since I’m one of those people that remembers things once I write them down, I thought I would blog about it. The steps are simple."

Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide - Feb 17, 2010

"After helping a few customers with Silverlight install issues, I think it may be helpful to publish a Silverlight deployment troubleshooting guide and keep it up-to-date, so here you go."

Why do I keep getting prompted to install Silverlight? - Feb 17, 2010

"A few people get prompted repeatedly to install Silverlight while visiting web sites like nbcolympics.com"

XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio - Feb 15, 2010

"XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In or a Visual Studio 2010 Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor.  Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools,  DataForm, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML form layout time."