Microsoft Silverlight content

Silverlight, HTML5 and the future

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:34:20 GMT

The Silverlight team today posted some information about what the future holds for rich Internet apps and where we have come with SIlverlight, where we see HTML5 playing a role and how Silverlight will be a part of the future of this next evolution of...(read more)

Guidance on Making Silverlight Apps Accessible

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:48:06 GMT

Accessibility is about making your applications usable by people with limitations that prevent or impede the use of conventional user interfaces (UIs). Karl Erickson just wrote a QuickStart with a bunch of tips to help you make your apps more accessible...(read more)

The Future of Silverlight

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

There's been a lot of discussion lately around web standards and HTML 5 in particular. People have been asking us how Silverlight fits into a future world where the <video> tag is available to developers. It's a fair question—and I'll provide...(read more)

New Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010)

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:44:36 GMT

Today we released an update to Silverlight 4 (update build is 4.0.50826.0) along with an updated SDK. We appreciate our customers’ patience on working with us to help identify and verify necessary updates to this service release. You can find all the...(read more)

Making your Content Scrollable

Microsoft Weblogs — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:10:14 GMT

Learn how to use the ScrollViewer control to allow users to scroll through large pieces of content....( read more )...(read more)

Adding the Mockup Controls to the SketchFlow Asset Tool

Microsoft Weblogs — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:55:11 GMT

Expression Blend 4 comes with a sample that includes a set of useful mockup controls that help creating common mockups quicker and easier. You can very easily add the mockup controls to your asset tool in SketchFlow so that you have these controls always...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 039 for 8/30/2010

Microsoft Weblogs — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:33:12 GMT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #39. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...(read more)

Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:26:00 GMT

So I think I’ve mentioned before I have been working on a Windows Phone 7 application. It’s been a real learning experience as oftentimes as a writer, I get to know my feature areas very well, but don’t create full-blown applications using several features...(read more)

Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes

Microsoft Weblogs — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform]

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:46:47 GMT

The WPF platform offers RenderTransform and LayoutTransform . Silverlight - being considerably smaller and a bit simpler - has only RenderTransform . Which is usually enough - except when it's not! :) So I wrote LayoutTransformControl a while back in...(read more)

Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:38:10 GMT

A few times, we have been asked how to use a URL to directly navigate to a given sub-page of a SketchFlow prototype. My colleague Chuck Hays from the SketchFlow team posted an answer to this question here, on the Expression forums. Many thanks to Chuck...(read more)

10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:45:36 GMT

Another talk I really enjoy doing is the "10 things" talk. I recently gave this talk at DevLink 2010 in Nashville. This covers 10 things that every Silverlight and WPF developer should have in their core skillset. It's a semi-beginner topic for accomplished...(read more)

Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7)

Microsoft Weblogs — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:25:28 GMT

Prior to working at Microsoft, I had some customers who wanted to dual target both WPF and Silverlight . Since then, Windows Phone 7 has been added into the mix. With all these similar technologies, all using xaml, multi-targeting applications can be...(read more)

Expression Is Hiring

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:09:35 GMT

The mission of the Expression team at Microsoft is to deliver great tools that enable designers and developers to create outstanding user experiences. We are currently working on a number of really interesting and challenging things – and we have some...(read more)