Hi, For those of you with an interest in Silverlight I thought you might like to take a look at a series of 'how to' videos available from the Silverlight team. You'll find everything from the basics through to best practices and even a series of tips and techniques. For example, Todd Miranda shows how to dynamically add markers to a ...

At MIX 08, Chris Pendleton announced that the Virtual Earth team is working on a Silverlight 2 control.  The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many.  I know many people are eagerly awaiting the Silverlight 2 control from the Virtual Earth team.  ...

Thanks to everyone who attended the RIA dinner on June 17th.  I promised to publish the deck and code James used as well as some follow up links.  Here they are: Presentation - deck, code Expression on microsoft.com - http://www.microsoft.com/expression/ Expression Community Site - http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx ...

Rich Internet Applications Dinner Microsoft Silverlight for Designers & Developers   June 17, 2008 - 6:00PM – 8:00PM Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190   Register today!  http://www.microsoft.com/events or call 1-877-MSEVENT (1-877-673-8368) and reference event ID ...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Sorry about the overflow into the hallways.  There was much less dropoff between registration and attendance than we normally see.  Some of the content isn't published yet.  Once it is, we'll make sure to update this post with the appropriate links. Building Rich Internet Applications Using ...

Pete Brown just let me know about this event in Reston, VA on June 13th.  I just looked over the schedule.  It looks to be jam packed with Silverlight & Expression content.  Details on here. -Marc

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry about the demo hiccups / going over.  As I mentioned in the beginning, I had a hard time trying to get everything I wanted to cover into 90 minutes.  As you can see, there's quite a bit in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions.  Normally, I make all of my code demos available for download.  ...

Venue Microsoft Nashville Office2555 Meridian Blvd., Suite 300 Franklin, TN 37067   Date & Time June 4, 2008 9:00AM – 4:00 PM EST   Registration Information: Click here   About the Conference Join us for a day of developer-oriented technical sessions, featuring Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, Windows Presentation ...

Rich Internet Applications Dinner Microsoft Silverlight for Designers & Developers   May 28, 2008 - 6:00PM – 8:00PM Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190   Register today!  http://www.microsoft.com/events or call 1-877-MSEVENT (1-877-673-8368) and reference event ID ...

These are two controls I hear people ask for that aren't currently shipping in Silverlight 2 (as of Beta 1).  However, since anyone can build a Silverlight control you have to think someone has built these right?  They have.  Here are the two I am aware of: Viewbox for Silverlight2 WrapPanel for Silverlight 2 I am sure there are ...