Building Silverlight 1.0 Applications
As Dan Wahlin shows here, creating Silverlight applications involves several different technologies.
Silverlight and the Rich Client Browser
Silverlight is not intended to replace the browser, but is designed to be hosted in the browser as a plug-in. That's why designing some Silverlight content is a two-step operation.
Silverlight Animation
As Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta show here, Silverlight animation lets you create truly dynamic user interfaces.
In The News
Video.Show Released
After three public preview releases, Video.Show 1.0 has been released. Video.Show is a reference-quality blueprint for implementing user-generated video content sites. It provides facilities for uploading, encoding, cataloguing, publishing, and commenting on videos, using Silverlight, Expression Encoder, and Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live.
NiFTyTV's Silverlight-based Video Player
NiFTyTV.com has built a Silverlight-based solution that emulates on a Macintosh the end-user behavior of the NiFTyTV application, which runs natively on PCs. Silverlight decodesand displays Windows Media video streams.
WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R1 Beta Now Available
Release includes WebAqua.NET, a collection of UI components built on WebUI.NET Framework, ASP.NET, and Silverlight.
Blogs
Mike Harsh's Blog
Mike Harsh
Right angle, laser, razor thin lines that curve and swerve in perfect sines.
Method~Of~Failed
Tim Heuer
Rambling from the digital underbelly.
Silverlight Geek
Jesse Liberty
By, for, and about Silverlight developers.
Media Center
Silverlight & Twitter
J. Michael Palermo IV shows how to create a Silverlight application that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users.
RIA Using Silverlight and JavaScript
Here's an introduction to building Silverlight applications using JavaScript and Microsoft developer and designer tools.
Upcoming Events
Building Silverlight Gadgets
Building Animations in Silverlight
Silverlight Applications
Silverlight Weather Widget
Rik Robinson's widget returns 5-day forecast from the Weather Channel.
Slide.Show
billyzkid's Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight 1.0 control.
Dr. Dobb's Sparkleball
Classic gaming -- plus a tutorial on how it is built!
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Building Silverlight 1.0 Applications
Silverlight and the Rich Client Browser
Silverlight Animation
Video.Show Released
NiFTyTV's Silverlight-based Video Player
WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R1 Beta Now Available
Mike Harsh's Blog
Method~Of~Failed
Silverlight Geek
Silverlight & Twitter
RIA Using Silverlight and JavaScript
Building Silverlight Gadgets
Building Animations in Silverlight
Silverlight Weather Widget
Slide.Show
Dr. Dobb's Sparkleball
Use Your Favorite Tools.
Explore the flexible Silverlight™ programming model and AJAX, Visual Basic®, JavaScript, Visual C#®, Python and Ruby support.