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Learning Silverlight

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight (this post) Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project It’s been a while since I dived into Silverlight and rolled my sleeves [...]

Silverlight Masterclass

A while back I took a training course on the then new Microsoft RIA toolset offerings. The platform then was definitely not what it is today and now I would consider the MS offering a very solid platform for building RIAs upon and is now pushing Adobe for new and faster innovation. As a developer [...]

The Silverlight Problem

As anyone who regularly reads this blog will know, I’ve been looking into Silverlight of late. Nothing commercial as yet, just to fulfill my own geeky interests (if anyone is looking for Silverlight development get in touch). Throughout this experimentation and research I’ve also discussed Silverlight with other developers and designers from various small and [...]

Silverlight Adventures – part 2

Continuing from my previous post on learning Silverlight (sorry for the VERY long delay i’ve been very busy lately)… 5 – The tools (cont) Okay so downloads required were as follows: Silverlight Runtime .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio Orcas Visual Web Developer 2008 – due to the massive download required i opted for the Express [...]

VS 2008 and .net3.5 beta 2 released

Scott Guthrie just announced the next beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5, this is a big release and details some great new features. Check out his blog postd and give it a try. I have been playing with the beta1 and Silverlight and am thoroughly impressed see my findings here and i’ll be [...]

Silverlight adventures

After my initial enthusiasms about Silverlight along came proper work and other such distractions and I somewhat halted my research. However I’m doing a brief presentation on it at a new tech user group in Southampton (12th July) and so thought best to brush up on the latest – nothing like last minute preparation! I [...]

Expression Training Day 1 – Afternoon

Okay so it’s time to get our hands dirty and actually play with one of the tools: Expression Web! To be honest this was kind of an anti-climax for me. Expression Web is a good HTML editor. That’s about it. I’d go so far as to say a very good HTML editor if you do [...]

Expression Training Day 1 – Morning

We started the day with a few presentations by Jon Harris and Andrew Shorten on what the Expression offering is all about, where it has come from and where things are headed. This was good and it was refreshing to see a Microsoft presentation pressing all the right buttons in terms of user experience and [...]

Sliverlight Training @ Microsoft – why would I want to do that?

This week I am on a training course titled “Creating engaging user experiences with Microsoft Expression” “Delivering Rich Online Experiences Using Miscrosoft Expression, ASP.Net, AJAX and WPF” (edit: surprisingly I couldn’t remeber the exact title without the material in front of me, this is now the real course title and a better indication of the [...]