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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:...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 03/17/2010
Slides and Demos from my MIX10 Session
The slides and demos from my MIX10 session "Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight"...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 03/17/2010
Slidentity Updated for Silverlight 3 RTW
Big thanks to Mark Reynolds of Techsys Business Solutions who did most of the heavy lifting for this...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 07/27/2009
Slides, Demos and Video for my MIX '09 Session - Building Out of Browser Experiences with Microsoft Silverlight 3 MIX09-T45F
The MIX team works fast. The video recording of my talk is already published. Slides - Launches...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 03/19/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta Sample - Slidentity - Presentation Creation App
I’ve been working on Silverlight 3 since July of last year, when we started planning the key...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta is Live! – Out of Browser, Perspective 3D, Effects, ElementName Binding and more!
If You Want To Develop Silverlight 3 Apps Dev Runtime, SDK and Tools Blend 3 Preview Silverlight 3...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 03/18/2009
Third Silverlight v1.0 Servicing Release is Live
As Tim blogged about earlier this morning, last weekend we released a new update to SL 1. This...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/07/2008
Slides and Demos From My MIX 08 Talk
Joe Stegman and I are giving a two part, back to back talk titled Building Rich Internet...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 03/05/2008
Free Silverlight v1.0 Training on Lynda.com
As a few folks have noticed, the Silverlight Essential Training I recorded for Lynda.com is...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 01/10/2008
First Silverlight v1.0 Service Release is Live
In the midst of all the work our team has been cranking on for Silverlight v1.1 (controls,...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 11/20/2007
Netika builds a PowerPoint-alike in Silverlight
The folks at Netika who created a set of UI controls for Silverlight v1.1 have taken those controls...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 10/17/2007
Source code for the .NET Framework!
Microsoft is releasing the source to the .NET Base Class Libraries as well as the top three...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 10/03/2007
MSN Election '08 Site Using Silverlight
MSN's new Election '08 site is using Silverlight and Live Search to display candidate information...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 08/24/2007
Tafiti.com - Searching in Silverlight
The good folks at Jackson Fish have built a very slick Silverlight front end for Live Search called...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 08/21/2007
MediaPreview.TV - Beautiful Silverlight v1.0 App
Another very polished Silverlight application was launched recently. It aggregates new feeds and...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 08/09/2007
MLB.com is using the Silverlight v1.0 RC
MLB.com has just launched a Silverlight based video player as a companion for articles. Click the...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 08/06/2007
Silverlight v1.0 RC is Almost Here
We’ve been working like mad to get Silverlight v1.0 ready to ship. We’ve improved perf, added a...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 07/17/2007
WinForms on Silverlight
The team has been obscenely busy shipping Silverlight v1.0 and working on Silverlight v1.1 so I...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 06/26/2007
Dave Campbell's Getting Started With Silverlight Article
For the few folks who don't know, Dave Campbell is a very prolific Silverlight blogger and frequent...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 06/08/2007
More Silverlight Physics - K. Scott Allen's Swinging Rope
Last year (well, really early this year), Scott created a version of Conway's game of life in...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/30/2007
Chris Cavanagh's Silverlight Physics Simulator
Chris Cavanagh, physics modeler extraordinaire, has created a Silverlight based physics modeler....
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/24/2007
David Anson's Silverlight Based XPS Viewer
David Anson has created an XPS viewer using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. This app is a very cool idea...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/23/2007
Jeff Prosise's 3D Comic Book Cover Viewer
Jeff has been working to build an ASP.NET 2.0 sample app to search and index comic books called...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/22/2007
Ernie Booth's Silverlight Plug-in For Reflector
Ernie has created a Silverlight plug-in for Lutz Roeder’s Reflector. Reflector can already be used...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/19/2007
Dave Relyea's C# Layout Controls
Dave has put together a great set of Silverlight controls written in C# that include layout...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/17/2007
Building a Silverlight Skateboard
As Sean noted in this blog post, he commissioned a handful of Silverlight skateboard decks based on...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/17/2007
Roxio Buzz Now Supports Uploading to Silverlight Streaming
Roxio Buzz is a viral video editing and upload application written in WPF. This app makes it easy to...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/16/2007
Scott Barnes on Custom Silverlight Controls
Scott has a great post about the things he learned while creating his first Silverlight control....
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/15/2007
Electric Rain Harmony Converts SWF files to XAML
Electric Rain recently announced a new product they're working on called Harmony. This app will take...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/14/2007
Updated SilverlightPad - Now with Javascript Editing and Preview
I had this idea about a month ago, but I was too busy prepping for MIX to put it together. Take...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/14/2007
Samples Updated for Beta 1
I’ve updated all the samples hosted on my site to work with the builds of Silverlight released at...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/11/2007
Samples from ScottGu's Silverlight Post
I’m sure that most folks interested in Silverlight have seen Scott’s in-depth post from Monday. If...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/11/2007
RobU's post on the Compact Framework port of Silverlight
I missed this post in all the MIX excitement last week but it is a great read. Rob talks about the...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/10/2007
Dr. Popper Game in Silverlight
Bill Reiss has created a Silverlight version of his Dr. Popper game. This game is written using...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/08/2007
Joe Stegman's MIX slide deck and demos
Joe has posted the materials from his MIX talk. The slide deck is here. The corresponding video...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/07/2007
Lutz Roeder's C# Silverlight Samples
Lutz Roeder, of Reflector fame, has created 3 Silverlight sample apps written in managed code and...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/04/2007
Silverlight C# Controls
I mentioned on Monday that one of the really powerful aspects of managed code integration into...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/03/2007
Kevin Gallo and I are Interviewed by Ryan Stewart
Monday afternoon at MIX, just minutes after Lee took this picture, Ryan Stewart intereviewed Kevin...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/03/2007
MIX '07 Session Recordings are Up
Wow, that was fast. It's been 16 hours since I gave my talk yesterday and the session recording is...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/02/2007
Silverlight Airlines Demo and Source Online
David Anson has posted the source for the Silverlight Airlines application that was shown at the MIX...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/02/2007
MIX '07 Keynote Demo Videos
Videos covering some of the coolest demos shown at yesterday's keynote have been psoted to the MIX...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 05/01/2007
Silverlight Including .NET Support - Download it Today
Last year at MIX we announced that we were integrating .NET development into Silverlight and today...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/30/2007
Telerik RadControls for Silverlight
Telerik has created a set of UI controls based on the February CTP of Silverlight. They've got live...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/26/2007
3D Performance Demo in Silverlight
bubblemark.com has created a very cool 3D demo using Silverlight. This was posted 2 weeks back but I...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/23/2007
Microsoft Silverlight
Phew. No more “WPF/E”. I sure won’t miss that name. From now on the technology will be called...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/16/2007
ScreenEdit.com Hosting WPF/E for Video Playback
Hugo Ortega has posted a video about the UMPC-based Audi keyboard he’s been working on. This was a...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/12/2007
Scott Guthrie's WPF/E Overview and Demos
Tucked away in a multi-topic post, Scott has posted an incredible overview of WPF/E. His slide deck...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/10/2007
Gavin Gear's XAML-> Javascript String Converter
Gavin Gear of the Ink team has created a WinForms app that takes a XAML string and turns it into a...
Author: Michael Harsh Date: 04/06/2007