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There are some great people with Silverlight and many of them are sharing a ton with the community through blogs, twitter, forums, videos, articles, books, training, and speaking engagements. Different folk tend like different mediums, so it is great that we have so many options to share information on Silverlight. Years ago I used to read books to find my information. Then as the web grew, I started reading a ton of articles. That grew into blog reading for me, and in the past few years watching...

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John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations. Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter ( @john_papa ) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv     Are you developing...

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Lately there has been a lot of buzz speculating on the future of the web including HTML 5, Silverlight, and other web technologies. Brad Becker, Director of Product management at Microsoft, has posted some valuable insight into the value of Silverlight and the role it does and will play in the web (including where it and HTML 5 will play key roles). I highly recommend that anyone considering the future of web technologies go check out the article and leave your comments on the site. For those who...

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Today we released a new update to for Silverlight 4 (4.0.50826.0) and a new SDK to go along with it.  Tim Heuer posted a summary here and you can check out the full details at KB2164913 . I summarized the key elements below. Here are the relevant highlights: SDK feature to enable Add New Row capabilities in DataGrid control Improving startup performance of Silverlight applications Adding mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac platform Various media-related fixes around...

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Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on Silverlight TV to announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The new themes include: Jet Pack Cosmopolitan Windows 7 AccentColor She also takes a deep look at the cosmopolitan theme and shows how you can customize it, if need be. Tsitsi wraps up by demonstrating some tips you can use to maintain...

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On this episode of Silverlight TV , Dinesh Kulkarni shares his top tips for creating streamlined and performant WCF RIA Services applications. He walks through some key decision points while creating domain services (server side) for a Silverlight and RIA Services application. Among the tips Dinesh discusses are some of the benefits of creating the minimal number of entities, operations, and amount of data required for your application. He also discusses how to connect RIA Services to: Entity Framework...

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I just received my confirmation that I will be presenting at the PnP Symposium being held in Redmond from Oct 18-22, 2010. Here is a ton of information that the PnP team has released about the event as written by Don Smith … The Patterns and Practices (PnP) Symposium is shaping into a killer event. We have rock star keynotes confirmed and many well-known speakers who spend all year looking forward to this event and are pretty excited about their sessions. Please feel free to share these updates...

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I ran into some issues installing the Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta this weekend on my PC. I had been cleaning up my hard drive of old installs so I likely had a bit of a mess. I had just installed a fresh copy of Expression Suite 4 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and the Silverlight 4 Tools. I tested those and everything worked great … so far so good. Next step was to install the Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta . Here is where I ran into this problem … “Setup has detected that this computer...

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Being that I’ve just set the Silverlight TV schedule for August and parts of September 2010 I wanted to share it with everyone. We have some great guests who have some awesome content in the lineup over the next month. Check this out! 8/12/2010 – You are already a WP7 Developer - Jesse Liberty (just aired yesterday) 8/19/2010 – Top Tips for WCF RIA Services – Dinesh Kulkarni 8/26/2010 – Announcing New Silverlight Themes – Tsitsi Gora 9/02/2010 – Animations and States – John Stockton 9/09/2010 – Top...

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It has been said that if you know Silverlight then you are already a Windows Phone 7 developer. Jesse Liberty joins John Papa this week on Silverlight TV to explore that statement and demonstrate the side-by-side creation of both a Silverlight application and a Windows Phone application . Watch as Jesse cracks open Visual Studio 2010 and creates two similar applications: one for Silverlight and one for Windows Phone 7. He does this all from scratch so you get to see every step along the way. Relevant...

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