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Silverlight 4 RC & Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP!

Karen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:21:57 +0000

Go download the Silverlight 4 RC!

Runtime (PC, Mac)
Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
Expression Blend 4 Beta
Silverlight Toolkit
WCF RIA Services

Just a few of my favorite new SL4 RC features since the Beta:

Full screen pinning (watch videos full screen while typing in a different window, on a different monitor. wahoo for multi-tasking!)
Rich text formatting spring loading (be able to hit bold and just watch it work)
WebCam preview (see previews of the web cam in the config dialog)
Binding support in VisualStates (use databinding in your state storyboards)
Navigation loader refresh (support refreshing a Page in a Frame)

Go download Silverlight for Windows Phone Developer Tools!

In this package, you’ll get:

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
Windows Phone Emulator CTP
Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP

Read more about Windows Phone 7 Development here.

MIX10

Karen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:15:29 +0000

I’m so excited about MIX10!

Here’s a list of key Silverlight sessions. If you’re not in Vegas, catch the keynotes (live!) and sessions (24hours delayed) at http://live.visitmix.com.

Time	Session	Speaker	Room
Mon 11:30 – 12:30pm	Microsoft Silverlight 4 Overview: What’s in Store for Silverlight 4?	Keith Smith	Mandalay Ballroom D
Mon 2:00 – 3:00pm	Overview of the Windows Phone 7 Series Application Platform	Charlie Kindel	Mandalay Ballroom A
Mon 3:30 – 4:30pm	Stepping Outside the Browser with Microsoft Silverlight 4	Ashish Shetty	Breakers H
Tue 11:00 – 12:00pm	Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Applications	Scott Morrison	Lagoon H
Tue 11:30 – 11:55am	Microsoft Silverlight “Media”: Moving at 60fps	Eric Schmidt	Breakers H
Tue 1:30 – 2:30pm	Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 1	Mike Harsh	Mandalay Ballroom A
Tue 3:00 – 4:00pm	Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 2	Peter Torr	Mandalay Ballroom A
Tue 3:00 – 3:25pm	Building an Accessible Microsoft Silverlight Experience	Mark Rideout	Lagoon B
Tue 4:30- 4:55pm	Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone	Seema Ramchandani	Lagoon B
Wed 10:30 – 10:55am	Flash Skills Applied to Microsoft Silverlight Design and Development	Adam Kinney	Lagoon B

Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts

Karen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:37:16 +0000

A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs. If you haven’t already, check it out!

David Poll (blog)

Jesse Bishop (blog)

Africa Penguins

Karen — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:28:00 +0000

African penguins at Boulder Beach.

the crowd

mom & baby

walkin’

swimmin’

“i can kick your ass” penguin

Cape of Good Hope

Karen — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:25:00 +0000

Cape of Good Hope, the most south-west point of the African continent.

(Though not the “southern” most point – that’s Cape Agulhas… which I didn’t see.)

More Animals from Sabi Sands

Karen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:17:00 +0000

giraffe

bird

kudu

chameleon. this guy had the craziest walk. he was swaying back & forth, trying to look like a leaf to those predators flying above.

weaver

warthog

almost

hippo

rhino, by john

Elephants on Parade

Karen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:06:00 +0000

After a couple quick glimpses, baby elephants were topping my “cuties of Africa” list. I had seen Asian baby elephants before, but African baby elephants – with their HUGE ears – were just too much.

However, by our 5th game drive, we still hadn’t gotten a good look at them – they were always hidden or running off.

Then, as we were off attempting to track a rhino, a large herd of 30 or so elephants came marching towards us. They went around the truck like it was no big deal. And we got to see all of their little babies.

elephants and elephants and elephants

going around the truck

three ages

i’m cute!

*melt*

Elephants

Karen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:51:00 +0000

Zebras

Karen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:46:00 +0000

Twilight in the Bush

Karen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:42:00 +0000

The scene:

A leopard, having just eaten, rests at the foot of a tree.

The remains of the impala still hang in the branches above.

A young hyena patiently waits for falling scraps.