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Silverlight Reading
Thought I'd put together a post of some good Silverlight blogs for your reading pleasure.  Awesome Silverlight SDK Blog Scott Guthrie Laurence Moroney Silverlight Cream Tim Heuer Jesse Liberty Read More...
Event Reminder
Just a reminder to all you WPF and Silverlight developers out there that I'm presenting at Nxtgen Cambridge on the MVVM pattern. We will look at how to design a WPF application and spend quite a lot of time deep in code. I have one more space in the car Read More...
Silverlight 2 RTM 14 October 2008
Yes, finally we’ll have an RTM product to build with.  I cannot wait to finally have a stable API and something we can push to customers. More info at the press release with news that the RTM will be available to download on the 14th.  No news Read More...
Unit Testing and INotifyPropertyChanged
I’ve been busy with a Silverlight project where our models are all implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. I’m not a big fan of INotifyPropertyChanged because of the need to raise the event with the property name as a string. This can lead to numerous spelling Read More...
Silverlight Visual State Manager Series
Karen Corby has an awesome set of 4 blog posts on Visual State Manager.  She discusses what it does, shows us how to use states, parts and transitions and is a very informative set of posts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Read More...
VBUG.NET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008
From Tim Leung: "We’re holding our VBUG annual conference at Thames Valley Park on the 4th/5th November. It’s £399 for non VBUG members and our international speakers include Ken Getz and Roy Osherove. The topics covered will include: Read More...
Silverlight Coolwall
I thought a little Christmas Silverlight is in order, so the guys at Dot Net Solutions have cooked up a "Christmas Cool Wall" in the spirit of the season.  Inspired by the Top Gear Cool Wall, our little application allows you to search Read More...
Getting Started with Silverlight
A great article by Michael O'Brien at Innerworkings on how to get started with Silverlight. One of the most talked-about aspects of Silverlight is its undeniable technical accomplishments. In an age of 50 megabyte downloads, Microsoft managed to squeeze Read More...
Using a Single Storyboard on Multiple Elements
On a secret little project I've been working on for the last two weeks I came across something interesting in Silverlight and WPF. When you're developing WPF applications, code and XAML re-use is paramount. Using templates is an absolute requirement to Read More...