Silverlight Developer Resource-a-rama
I've been absorbing Silverlight from the perspective of a developer who wants to use .NET code to build Silverlight applications.
Here are the most useful resources I've found this week:
0. The Documentation
Silverlight alpha documentation and samples - very thorough for "alpha" bits!
1. Silverlight Mind Map
This is a "mind map" of Silverlight online resources complete with hyperlinks.
2. Jamie Cool and Nick Kramer Presentation
These are videos of the two-part presentation by Jamie Cool and Nick Kramer at MIX07, called Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2) and Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 2 of 2). The two comprise a really instructive discussion of building managed code apps in the Silverlight 1.1 alpha.
You might also be interested in the other MIX07 presentations available online.
3. Scott Guthrie Silverlight Summary and Videos
After his keynote demo at MIX07, Scott Guthrie published a summary of the Silverlight Keynote and announcements in his blog, complete with a 22-minute video of him building a Silverlight application from scratch.
The blog entry is a thorough summary of an amazing keynote, and it's great to have the video as well. Thanks to Scott for for taking the time after the keynote to put this resource together.
(aside: Just in case you missed it, here's Robert Scoble's interview with Scott Guthrie from shortly after the keynote. You can tell Scott was still buzzing :) )
Upcoming Silverlight Podcast with Brad Abrams:
Ireland's Tom Raftery is interviewing Silverlight Product Manager Brad Abrams on Monday for his Podcast series. If you have any questions for Brad, send them along to Tom before Monday!
Just for good measure, here's a photo of Tom Raftery and Sean Foley jammin' it Guitar Hero style at MIX07.
And now that this blog entry has gone completely off piste, it's time for me to stop.
Comments
Anonymous
May 11, 2007
No, no, don't stop. Interesting stuff :-D Have you run any JavaScript in a Silverlight control yet?Anonymous
May 11, 2007
Thanks for the photo Rob (I think!) and the link. On a marginally related topic, are there any apps out there yet that you know of for uploading video to the Silverlight Streaming service?Anonymous
May 13, 2007
SubSonic Starter Site is Out! [Via: ] LINQ to XML Videos [Via: mtaulty ] Zen of the Web Programming...Anonymous
May 13, 2007
Hi Tom - I haven't explored the streaming service yet... if anyone from the Silverlight team could advise on that I'd be grateful. Paul, I have to admit, my Javascript knowledge is dire. At the end of the Cool/Kramer presentation they show a bit of interaction with Javascript. I'm going to need to become one with that kind of interaction soon, as the Silverlight alpha doesn't contain standard input controls. Also, I want to get the Live Local control to interact with Silverlight. You interact with it via Javascript (there's a great interactive SDK for it) Certainly Javascript spelunking lies ahead for me...Anonymous
May 14, 2007
Cheers for the links Rob, i'm also excitedly diving into silverlight. FYI I've found Lutz Roeder's sample silverlight apps @ http://www.aisto.com/Roeder/Silverlight/ very usefulAnonymous
May 15, 2007
Cheers Cathal - I saw the Lutz demos and they are very useful - see KarstenJ's discussion of his demos from a dev perspective: http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/05/10/digging-into-lutz-roeder-s-monotone.aspxAnonymous
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