Silverlight 2 escapes

Hardly a big surprise, but Silverlight 2 has (finally) been released as a final version.   This is following a looong Beta2, and then RC0 – before an RTM today (or more exactly – RTW – Release To Web).
Silverlight 2 Released!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Install the final release of Silverlight 2.
Click here to get started building [...]

Building Games with Silverlight

Some interesting presentations and audio from “GameFest 2008″…>
Building Games with Silverlight
Learn how two developers used Microsoft Silverlight to create popular casual games.
Each developer will dive into their experience and discuss key takeaways that will help you in developing games with Silverlight.

Game Programming with Silverlight 2
This session will include a complete walkthrough on how to [...]

Silverlight example controls

At a recent Silverlight training course, I discovered & had a play with the wealth of “controls” within the new Silverlight 2 environment.   Silverlight-1 was much more limited, mainly related to “multimedia” – but now, can really create “applications” – as opposed to just animations, and video.
One of my thoughts was that it would be [...]

Recent download pr0n

Have found a few NEW gems on the Microsoft website, here goes :
SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training Resources Sheet 
PDF entitled SharePoint Ramp It Up for Professionals/Developers – even includes some code showing how to “write your first SharePoint program”.

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on WSS 3.0
A set of 10 Hands on Labs for [...]

Tech.Ed Announcements

There will no doubt be some great content, and announcements for those at Tech.Ed in Orlando, Florida (on now).
Here’s the first of them :
Bill Gates announced today that Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available this week

Read more here : Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Releasing Soon!
The Microsoft presspass article also has the following statements :

Internet [...]

Blog de la Vega

One of the K2 Insiders I’d met at the recent Insiders conference in Denver has a new blog.  
Edgardo Vega had a battle to find a domain name, but can now be found at :
Casa de Vega – My online home

He’s mentioned that there are some exciting K2 news ahead :
There are going [...]

ReMIX ReVisit’ed

As already blurg-blogged, the Melbourne dose of reMIX happened last week (Thursday).  This was essentially billed as a Microsoft Silverlight love-fest, with the IIS-7 and IE-8 stuff also.
Some awesome demo’s, and lots of Deep Zoom (and here) on show, including a demo of the awesome Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia site, and even presenters using Deep [...]

Pre re-MIX

With the ReMIX-08 conference in a day or so, I’ve been following the #auremix hashtag on twitter, and getting a bit excited to see some Silverlight, IE-8 and Live Mesh and so on.
I’ve been poking about for samples and tutorials about Silverlight, and planning to get a K2 client event page within a Silverlight ASP.NET [...]