Silverlight 2 - Released

Today Silverlight 2 was released, let the excitement start! Here are the resources that you'll need to get going: Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Release Candidate 1 Service Pack 1 for Expression Blend 2 Deep Zoom Composer Still waiting on the drop for the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK...

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Dynamically Creating Path Data in Silverlight 2

Recently I started playing around with the creation of a Silverlight application of C#; leaving my comfort zone of doing Silverlight development solely in IronRuby. The project that I decided to start is an application that is similar to the famous " Wheel of Lunch ", which will essentially...

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IronRuby, Silverlight, DeepZoom demos Updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

You'll need to uninstall all Silverlight 2 Beta 1 tools, and install the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Chainer (which includes tools for VS 2008, see www.silverlight.net ) Then update your Silverlight Dynamic SDK . If you are doing Deep Zoom, get the new Deep Zoom Composer . Here are updated Demos: Demos 1 -...

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IronRuby, Silverlight and Deep Zoom (Beta 1)

This past weekend I had the honor of presenting my IronRuby, the DLR and Silverlight talk at Cleveland Day of .Net. As promised I am posting the Deep Zoom sample that I had created. One gotcha that you will hit is that during the development, you will be required to add the mime type for the *.bin extension...

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Getting Started With IronRuby, the DLR and Silverlight (Beta 1)

Recently I presented this talk at the Central Ohio Day of .Net. It was an excellent experience, the sessions were all top notch, and the attendees were great! I'm sure to do this again next year. If you missed out, there are other Day of .Net events scheduled in nearby areas, to get a list, you can access...

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