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Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 Available

Start your preparations for the final release of Silverlight 2 with this release candidate of the Silverlight tools and developer runtime.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available

Silverlight 2 provides a framework that makes building rich Web applications much easier. Get the latest information from the Silverlight community site.

Silverlight Around the World

Visit the Silverlight Showcase to see how over 200 websites around the world are using Silverlight to deliver next-generation Web experiences.

Scott Guthrie’s blog

Scott Guthrie is the Microsoft vice president responsible for the CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, and IIS.

Scott Guthrie's Blog

October 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data
Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Amazon EC2 Su... more
jQuery and Microsoft
jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (a... more

Method~of~Failed

Tim Heuer is a former Microsoft developer evangelist and current Program Manager for Silverlight.

Method of Failed

Update your Silverlight Gallery Samples!
Did you know that the Silverlight community site has over 150 Silverlight 2 Beta 2 samples submitted by the community?! These range from short samples of specific functionality to full-fledged applications that people can use. I recently spoke of 2 o... more
Silverlight 2 UI Templates
One of the things I hear a lot about it wanting well-designed control templates/styles for developers to use in Silverlight (and WPF). As someone with that missing creativity gene, I agree. While we wait for some of these galleries to emerge (and des... more

Adam Kinney's Blog

Adam loves talking about UI platforms like Silverlight, WPF and Microsoft Surface from a developer and designer perspective.

Adam Kinney's Blog

Quake in Silverlight with 3D and Texture Mapping
QuakeLight, a Silverlight-based version of the classic game Quake, is a new project from Innoveware Solutions. Reading through Innoveware's news stream you can see that they just started working with Silverlight around 2 months ago and they already... more
Barnes Begins Project Nexus
Late last night, Scott Barnes introduced Project Nexus where the goal is to provide a vicarious experience for those who wonder whether the tagline "learn once, apply anywhere" really fits Microsoft's Rich platform story.  Can you r... more

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Jesse's business cards really do say Silverlight Geek.

Jesse Liberty's Blog

Tutorial & Video Info
I've received quite a bit of mail this week about advanced tutorials, so here's a quick note of what is planned. As you know we have RTW on the way, but I believe these plans will not be held up by that. 1. All the existing tutorials will... more
Is seeing demo programs on the Mac or Firefox Important?
Please take a moment to fill out this 4 question survey on whether we should be demonstrating cross-platform and cross-browser capabilities in Silverlight. Thanks. ... more

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