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Silverlight 3 Beta!

Here are all the Silverlight 3 Beta links, if you’re interested in digging in. Silverlight 3 Developer Runtime (windows, mac) Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio Microsoft Expression Blend 3 Preview Silverlight Toolkit .NET RIA Services As a callout:  This is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available. A full list of the new features can be found here. If you’re curious, some of the new framework features inside of the core runtime are: BasedOn Styles Merged ResourceDictionaries Ability to listen to handled …

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Mix 09: Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

Thank you to everyone to who came to my talk at Mix09!  I’m always a bit nervous having talks on the last day of a conference. (After all, you work really hard to pull a session together – and it can kinda be a bummer talking to mostly empty chairs.)  But my room was full, and the audience’s vibe felt great from stage.  🙂 If you missed the session, you can watch the video here: Also, as promised, here are links to… Sample source code Deck The final WishExplorer demo uses Wishpot’s 3rd party web service.  Wishpot is a great …

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Mix09 – So Divine!

Yep.  That’s a rhyming blog post title.  Anyways.  🙂 Mix09 is next week.  As you can tell from the title of our talks… You’ll get to see Silverlight 3 at Mix this year! Here are some of the core Silverlight talks (including one by me). Also note the ambiguously named talk by Mike Harsh – I can’t wait for that session!

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