Archive for March, 2009
Today’s episode is all about Silverlight and open source at Microsoft.
Lately, there’s a lot of open source code coming out of Redmond. This is especially true for Silverlight, and the Silverlight Toolkit team is at the center of this movement. I sat down with Justin Angel and Shawn Burke to talk about the status of open source.
In todays episode:
- Shawn Burke talks about how open source can fit into a for-profit ecosystem.
- Justin Angel explains how open source allows new customer support scenarios.
Justin Angel
Shawn Burke
A huge thanks to Justin who arranged this interview.
Podcast: Download
March 31st, 2009
The Silverlight Tour now supports Silverlight 3! For more information and class dates see: here . The next class is April 6th-8th in Chicago, IL. It covers Silverlight 2 and *now* Silverlight 3:
- The Out-of-Browser experience.
- Use Pixel Shaders and 3D transformations.
- Build Behaviors.
- Styling Improvements including Merge Dictionaries and Based-on Styles
- Data Validation using the Control Model
- Working with Binary XML
- Using the new Bitmap APIs
- Blend 3 Preview Coverage
March 28th, 2009
Silverlight 3 has been released, and it has a ton of great stuff. It has stuff that Erik breaks down into 4 categories:
- Graphics stuff – support for the GPU and 3D graphics
- Out-of-the-Browser applications – support for Silverlight outside of the browser frame
- Misc programmatic enhancements – element binding, dynamic resources, etc.
- Tooling support – Blend got a powerful upgrade
The Silverlight world just got a whole lot more power. To get started with the new bits, go to Silverlight.net GetStarted
For details on what’s in Silverlight 3, see the following:
- Shawn Wildermuth’s post
- Tim Heuer’s post
In related news:
The Silverlight Tour now supports Silverlight 3
Podcast: Download
March 19th, 2009
In this mini-episode, Erik and returning guest Jesse Liberty discuss the Bubble chart from the Silverlight Toolkit. The Bubble chart is unique in that it lets you chart a third dependent variable, and Erik and Jesse reveal how it can be used to great effect.
Useful links:
The Silverlight Toolkit: http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight
Jesse’s blog: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/
Post on Bubble Chart: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/12/18/bubbles-1-chart-three-axes.aspx
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Podcast: Download
March 9th, 2009
