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Silverlight bookshelf from SilverlightShow by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

SilverlightShow.net is one of those great community sites providing information, tutorials and general developer information around Silverlight . They’ve done a great job providing a spectrum of beginner to advanced topics on Silverlight development....

July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Each quarter, new MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) candidates are awarded. January 2010 is the first awards of the year and so I present the new/moved/re-awarded Silverlight specific MVPs : Alex Knight ( @agkdesign ) – started SilverZine and...

Top issues for Silverlight by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

A while back I had sent out an update on Twitter that I was sitting in a meeting reviewing some “top issues” for Silverlight as reported through various channels (official support, forums, social media outlets, blogs, incoming emails, etc.). It really...

Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

In the Silverlight world, there are two types of “cross-domain” things that may leave some banging their head against a wall for a while. The first involves making network-based calls (WebClient, HttpWebRequest, etc) to services hosted on a domain other...

Silverlight 4 Theme refresh including RIA Services templates by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

The feedback from the Silverlight 4 application themes released and the latest in process have been overwhelmingly toward the positive. We appreciate the feedback and hopefully you appreciate the transparency in the process. As a developer I want my fellow...

SNEAK PEEK: Another Silverlight theme pack preview by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Building on the positive feedback of the previous Silverlight application themes released last month (Cosmopolitan, Accent Color, and Windows) the design team is working on another theme targeting business application developers. We don’t yet have an...
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Silverlight 4 Tools, WCF RIA Services and Themes Released by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

This morning we published the final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio and WCF RIA Services . In April, when Silverlight 4 was released, the tools were still in “RC” status. Today, they are no longer and are officially released. There...
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Silverlight XAP Signing Certificate promotion from Thawte by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

And the offers keep coming in! Another one of our key partners for testing XAP signing for trusted applications was Thawte. Their group helped provide us with valid certificates to verify their process and signing worked as expected (and verified) for...
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New Silverlight 4 Themes available–get the raw bits by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

A while back I posted a sneak peek preview of 3 new themes that we were working on for Silverlight 4 applications. Our team wanted to do more than just the overall base theme and provide the themes for the core, SDK and some Silverlight Toolkit controls...
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Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

A little bit of hidden gem in the Silverlight 4 release is the ability to modify the Authorization header in network calls. For most, the sheer ability to leverage network credentials in the networking stack will be enough. But there are times when you...
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Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

One of the new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to sign your XAP applications so that your out-of-browser trusted applications look more friendly (trusted) to your users, they come from a verified publisher, and they can take advantage of the...
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Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Each release of Silverlight it is the goal to make sure existing Silverlight applications continue to work. Since I think what this means causes some confusion I’m going to do my best to explain what we mean by this. Silverlight 3 application working...
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Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 release by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Yet again, we’ve updated the Silverlight Client for Facebook for the Silverlight 4 release version. In order to use the updated one, you must follow these instructions: First, uninstall the previous version you have . This can be done in Add/Remove Programs...
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Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Today’s the day! Tuesday at DevConnections in Las Vegas, Scott Guthrie just announced the ‘launch’ of Silverlight 4 . We wanted to take the opportunity at DevConnections to let a large audience of our customers online/offline know that we’re done and...
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Watch the Silverlight 4 Launch event and LIVE QA with ScottGu and others by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Next week on 13-April at 8:00 AM PST Scott Guthrie will deliver a keynote address for the DevConnections conference being held in Las Vegas, NV. Scott will provide updates on the progress made in Silverlight 4 and will provide the details of availability...
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