Friday, December 3, 2010

Announcing Silverlight 5

Announcing Silverlight 5

Announcing Silverlight 5

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:22 AM PST

Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight. Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices. In my keynote this morning we demonstrated a number of them, and highlighted both the developer productivity Silverlight 5 provides and the great new user experiences it enables. You can watch my keynote here . A Silverlight 5 beta will be available in the first half of next year, and the final release will ship in the second half of 2011. Premium Media Experiences We are seeing great adoption of Silverlight for premium media solutions. In the last few months we've seen...(read more)

How to: Create a New WPF Resource

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:40 AM PST

Did you know that you can use the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2010 to create resources such as brushes? Learn how in this topic.

Inspire Improvements to Windows Phone Documentation

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 09:54 AM PST

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We are doing a study to see how we are doing with our documentation. Your input will inform and inspire improvements and new features for developers. We're looking for developers...( read more )...(read more)

10 Things Developers Will Love About Silverlight 5

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 05:40 AM PST

During the Silverlight Firestarter Scott Guthrie gave a preview of Silverlight 5. Based on the list of new features it seems Silverlight 5 will be at least as significant of an update from SL 4 than SL 4 was from SL3. In this article I'm looking...( read more )...(read more)

The validation story in Silverlight (Part 1)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:59 PM PST

If one feature is important when it comes to building line-of-business applications, it certainly is validation of business rules. At all levels throughout the application, we need to validate that the data that is entered by the users to verify that...( read more )...(read more)

Laurent Duveau on Morse Code Flash Light WP7 Application

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:00 PM PST

The next Windows Phone 7 application that we bring to your attention is Morse Code Flash Light – one app created mostly for fun. Its author, Laurent Duveau, agreed to share some details about the app as well as some tips on developing for WP7. Q1...( read more )...(read more)
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