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As I expected this morning, Scott Guthrie announced the final version of Silverlight 2 will release early, tomorrow, October 14th, 2008. This means its time to update your beta 2 sources out there, as Beta 2 is not compatible with the final release and users will automatically be updated. The official press release can be read here. So ...

Today Microsoft announces the first release candidate of Silverlight 2 for developers who need to prepare their beta 2 applications and make sure they are ready to go when Silverlight 2 releases to the world. No dates have been promised for Silverlight 2 just yet, but they are sticking with "sometime before the end of the year". Check ...

This is part 2 of the drag and drop videos, this is where I show a different method than the one provided by silverlight.net. Basically I found the concept of capture mouse technique to be too limiting in my applications and this method was how I was able to do drag and drop in my application where during dragging of an object I needed to ...

I have started to do more videos, this is a two part series on drag and drop. This first part is very basic drag and drop scenario, its built around the concept that when you click the object it will capture the mouse and when you release the mouse it will release the capture of the mouse. The problems I had with this method was when doing ...

Adam Kinney just announced to a small group today that Project Rosetta went live with a new initiative towards bringing articles, discussions, and more to those with histories in other platforms like Flash. So, designers and developers can check it out and learn to build off of their existing experiences to learn ...

I thought this was a bit of cool news I heard from the MSDN flash newsletter, Silverlight Streaming free service has now added a new feature. You can now let it add advertising to your videos and then get paid when your users click on it. This is very similar to other ad services out there but its just another avenue available to you when using ...

I did a recent talk on Custom Controls to the local user group in Chicago and I thought I would re-iterate those points here. The silverlight control model is very important to the collaboration efforts between designers and developers. First lets understand the difference between Custom Controls and User Controls. 1. User controls is very ...

I was going back to some of the demo's I had done in silverlight 2 beta 2 and decided to remake the tornado demo. When I was into flash this demo was the coolest demo of its time... I decided to push the envelope with Silverlight 2 and this time to add o the cool factor I made the circling particles have a background fill of the ...

As promised this covers 2 different methodologies for doing Dynamic Animations in Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I encompassed the technique used in my fx demo as well as another method too. Please let me know if you find these useful. Source: DynamicAnimationsDemo.zip (543.16 kb)

(TO MAKE IT WORK, MOVE YOUR MOUSE OVER THE BOX) So I was reading Adam Kinney's blog earlier this week (http://adamkinney.com/blog/339/default.aspx) and he posted some cool information on techniques for creating dynamic animation. I was oblivious to the fact that I could get better performance out of  storyboard as a ...