Wishing all our American listeners a very happy Thanksgiving. We’ll be back next week!

In this episode, returning guest Jesse Liberty gives us an overview of data binding in Silverlight. What sort of tools does Silverlight provide for us? How do we implement data binding? Silverlight gives us a lot of flexibility, and Jesse Liberty tells us all about it.

Useful links:
Data binding tutorial: http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials/databinding.aspx
Data binding video: http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=56926
Data binding margin notes: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/10/11/data-binding-margin-notes.aspx
Data conversion: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/10/12/data-binding-data-conversion.aspx
Data validation: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/10/13/data-binding-data-validation.aspx

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Silverlight wrapper around the XMLHttpRequest object

Can I interact with Silverlight from Javascript? You sure can. One of the most useful features is the Downloader object. It allows you to wrap XMLHttpRequest calls with Silverlight. This allows a browser neutral way of accessing server resources from Javascript.

Downloading and Attaching XAML

There’s a simple way of downloading/attaching XAML to the render tree. Erik explains the tricks to doing this from Javascript.

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