PDC 2008 - Silverlight 2 Wrap-Up(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 3 months ago

PDC (Professional Developer Conference) 2008 is over. There has been a lot of information released last week that you may have missed, particularly for Silverlight. This article summarizes all the resources released for Silverlight during the PDC in one single place. If you haven't heard about the new Silverlight Tools released last week, new Silverlight Control Toolkit, Silverlight 2 videos from the PDC, Silverlight 2 Mobile information, WCF REST Starter Kit check this article out. read more...

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Software Tools You Should Be Using and Blogs You Should Be Reading(blog.obishawn.com)

submitted by SuperJason(2740) 3 years, 3 months ago

Advice on how to become a great developer and not just a monkey programmer. read more...

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Silverlight 2 for Mobile - Why you should start using a MVC pattern(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 3 months ago

Silverlight 2 for Mobiles has been announced. Here is a quick post on how the MVC pattern can help your save you time and enable you to target the Mobile platform faster. read more...

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Silverlight & ASP.NET MVC vs Web Forms (Very High Level)(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 3 months ago

A high level Pros and Cons look at Silverlight vs ASP.NET Web Forms (based on pros/cons offered by ASP.NET MVC) read more...

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Tips, Tricks, and Hidden Gems In SQL Server 2005/2008(dbalink.wordpress.com)

submitted by Marlonr(694) 3 years, 3 months ago

Browsing stackoverflow for SQL Server tags has now become a habit that I do on my free time. For some reason I missed this interesting post about Hidden Features in SQL Server. read more...

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The Software Developer's Dream(itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com)

submitted by nsoonhui(1810) 3 years, 3 months ago

Tom Preston-Werner, one of the founders of GitHub , wrote an enlightening article about his decision to turn down 300K bonus from Microsoft in order to work on the GitHub project one year ago . A beautifully written article. I love it absolutely. read more...

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QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming...(adamkinney.com)

submitted by Reman(1970) 3 years, 3 months ago

QuakeLight - Silverlight Port of Quake... 3D with Silverlight - w00t! read more...

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Silverlight news for October 22, 2008(silverlightshow.net)

submitted by iiordanov(350) 3 years, 3 months ago

Jeff Prosise’s next trick is already a fact and it is about factoring of applications in Silverlight. It explains how to load assemblies dynamically and how to instantiate types from that assemblies using Silverlight ... read more...

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Silverlight - ready for business applications?(silverlightshow.net)

submitted by idragoev(75) 3 years, 3 months ago

Since the Silverlight 1.1 was released I and my colleagues started using it in a commercial business applications for some small tasks, where the benefits were obvious. Even the fact the Expression Blend crashes and the lack of controls at that time didn't stop us. We were impressed of the temp of the improvement and we expected to see reliable and ready for business use platform when the final is released. So, now the final is a fact, but is it really ready for real-world business application? Shortly - no. Not yet. read more...

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Silveright 2 GUIMark - Big Performance Boost in Silverlight 2 RTW(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 3 months ago

GUIMark is one of the few independent benchmarks out there that compare several web/RIA technologies. Back in Silverlight 2 Beta days, Silverlight was serving up a paltry 7-8 FPS. With Silverlight 2 RTW out, I updated the original code to get it to work and there are dramatic improvements to the rendering pipeline inside Silverlight 2 RTW. Check out the article for details. read more...

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Silverlight and the Enterprise(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 3 months ago

This article is about Silverlight and Enterprise level development. Included are some ways Silverlight is a better suited RIA for enterprise development than Flash/Flex or JavaFX. read more...

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Software Entrepreneurship Track - Tracking a Microsoft .NET based star(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 4 months ago

This article covers the reality TV show Start-Up Junkies. The show includes lots of .NET goodness and with the power of the internet you get a lot more background information on their partnership with MIcrosoft. There is a lot of information here for anyone working in a Microsoft based startup. read more...

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Silverlight 2 RC0 - Important (silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 4 months ago

Silverlight 2 RC0 is out. This is a condensed list of the most important new items you should know about RC0 and some important new trends Microsoft doing with Silverlight. This isn't your simple Beta 1 -> Beta 2 upgrade. read more...

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Quick American Advice For Imported and Outsourced Software Engineering(jondavis.net)

submitted by Bognit(2110) 3 years, 4 months ago

Interesting and controversial read! read more...

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Silverlight Opportunity: Challenging the game concept model (Spore)(silverlighthack.com)

submitted by rev4bart(420) 3 years, 4 months ago

How Silverlight & RIA technologies can challenge professional game development shops by focusing on novel concepts and add value beyond just graphics. Detailed insight focuses on the newly released game Spore. read more...

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Tip of the Day #25: How to Build the XAP File another Folder(silverlight.net)

submitted by wisemx(8074) 3 years, 5 months ago

By default when you build your Silverlight application you will notice the XAP file is placed in your web sites ClientBin folder: read more...

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