As the title says :)
I've been waiting for Wrox to release "Professional silverlight 2.0" for ages but it's been delayed by nearly a year and I want to have a Play with silverlight.
Ignoring the silverlight.net site, does anyone know of any good beginners tutorials that focus on coding in Visual Studio instead of Blend?
Jon
I'm currently running through this set of tutorials. Have been quite useful as a very basic primer into the world of Silverlight.
I wrote a 57-page article for Wrox Press called "Jumping from ASP.NET to Silverlight 2". It is focused on ramping up on the basics, and doesn't involve Blend. And it's seven bucks.
Link is here
Jesse Liberty's blog has masses of useful learning material including tutorials and videos - highly recommended.
Take a look at this MSDN Silverlight page.
While not strictly a tutorial, my collegue has been reading Pro Silverlight in C# 2008 and from what I heard, he's very pleased with it. Sure, it's not free, but maybe it'll hold you over until Professional silverlight 2.0 is released? :)
I've been looking at Silverlight 2 In Action and Silverlight 2 Unleashed and pretty happy with both
While not exactly tutorials, the videos on the MS official Silverlight website has good videos on all kinds of topics.
start here
http://silverlight.net/Learn/
And watch the many screencasts here
http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=10
Videos have been very helpful to me:
http://channel9.msdn.com/continuum/tutorials/
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/9b002e70-78c2-4741-9093-93e42228d8d1
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I am trying to learn Silverlight 4.0...i have 3+ years of Exp in .NET but do not know about silverlight...
So request you to suggest me how to start to learn Silverlight 4.0...
I there any good book available in market which teach me or any url...
Also i want some dummy expamples..
Thankx in advance.
Google is your best friend. There are so manny resources available for Silverlight, so that is is impossible to list them all here. Some of my personal recommendations are
wrox silverlight 4 book
Channel 9 has allot of videos
concerning silverlight
browse msdn tutorials:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163404.aspx
and last but not lease
silverlight.net =>
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/
And when you think you have a good understanding of the workings of silverlight / WPF you can switch to the MVVM pattern:
http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/2010/04/model-view-viewmodel-mvvm-explained.html
Check the official website of SilverLight which is http://www.silverlight.net/.
It contains videos and tutorial that you can start with.
I know WF designer has re-hosting capability.
Since it's WPF-based, I thought it might be rehostable in web, using silverlight.
Does anyone have any experiece regarding this?
Or, does anyone know an easy and powerful web-based workflow designer solution for WF?
The WF designer can be hosted in the browser, just not with silverlight but as a wpfbrowser application. See details here
This requires the .net framework on the client.. but it does work.
When Microsoft introduce WF 4 at PDC2008, I specifically asked the question about rehosting in Silverlight and the answer was "No, it isn't something we are currently supporting but it seems there is some demand so we are conisdering it".
A little more than 2 years later and they aren't still supporting it so I guess it will be a while before we see that happening out of the box from MSFT
I'm working in the "WF area" too: the designer can't be rehosted in a web page. Keep in mind that WPF is quite different from Silverlight.
Not really answering you question, but... have a look at SnapFlow.
If you find something useful don't forget to write a short note here. ;-)
I want to learn WPF but from all the commentary I've been hearing the tooling in Visual Studios is weak and would require me writing XAML by hand which is inefficient. I've seen tools such as Expression Blend that are used to create XAML however given my complete lack of understanding of WPF I'd be hard-pressed to get enough "mileage" out of the trial to learn enough to decide if I want to buy the software. So my question is if I want to learn the tooling that Microsoft is providing for WPF as I learn WPF what approach would you suggest? As for tooling, is there an Express edition of Blend that I can use to learn before I upgrade to the professional license? Thanks!
Honestly,
I've felt that I've learned WPF the best by writing the XAML by hand. I've been using VS 2010 Beta 1 and the designer has gotten better (with intellisense and such) and it sounds like when Beta 2 comes out it will be better yet.
After you learn WPF and get comfortable with the basics and functionality, then using Blend for making things look "pretty" is useful.
I do not know how long the trial version of Blend 3 is, but before 3 came out, they kept giving out a version (June Preview, August Preview and the likes) that lasted 3 months before they expired.
Again, I didn't feel like Blend helped me learn WPF, it just helped make things more visually appealing (gradients and some animations). But to each his own.
This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I found it helpful when playing around with XAML.
Kaxaml
You might want to look at learnvisualstudio.net. I think they have some videos on WPF.
I use this website to help me learn VS.net and some .net languages.
I really enjoyed this tutorial when I was first getting started. I think they do a good job orienting you with WPF and Blend.
I am starting to learn Silverlight game programming, and was wondering if anyone knows of some good tutorials or resources to get started with. I'm just beginning, so guides that teach concepts thoroughly would be appreciated.
Try Mike Snow's book on Silverlight game programming:
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Silverlight-Michael-Snow/dp/1598639064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247768957&sr=8-1
It includes Silverlight 3 info too. For general Silverlight programming I like Silverlight Unleashed.
Blue Rose Games is an online host of silverlight games and has a few tutorials on the subject
I don't think there's anything particularly special about writing games in Silverlight. I would just read any game resources I could get my hands on and then ask a particular question if I had trouble performing the same operations in Silverlight.
With the asp.net MVC framework the blogs of the team members (Rob Conery, Phil Haack etc) really helped me on my way and made me feel comfortable the development was going in the right direction.
Is there something similar for Silverlight?
-Edit:
I would like to mention that I would like to find members of the dev team themselves.
Currently the support for Silverlight across OS and browser is just too poor to make me care and invest time in it.
But I would like to keep a spying eye out so I can start caring when the framework fulfils it's potentials.
Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer:
http://feeds.timheuer.com/timheuer-silverlight
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek
Community Silverlight content:
http://silverlight.net/blogs/community/rss.aspx
Silverlight Tips of the Day
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx
Podcasts:
http://www.sparklingclient.com/
Wynapse (Mining the Web for Silverlight so YOU don't have to):
http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Default.aspx
thanks for the feedback already. Are
any of those actually part of the
Silverlight dev team?
Yes, Jesse Liberty is is a senior program manager for Microsoft Silverlight in the Silverlight Development Division.
Tim Heuer is a program manager for Microsoft Silverlight.
Mike Snow (Silverlight Tips of the Day) is a Senior SDET Lead on the Web Tools team at Microsoft.
Mike Taulty has a lot of silverlight content in his blog on a regular base : (has done a lot of silverlight screecasts )
http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/rss.aspx
the same with Karl Shifflett: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com
Matthias Shapiro : http://www.designerwpf.com
Michael Sync : http://michaelsync.net/
Robby Ingebretsen : http://nerdplusart.com/
Ruurd Boeke: http://www.sitechno.com/Blog
at least this is some excerpt from my blog reader
Scott Guthrie the product manager of .NET Framework writes form time to time about Silverlight in his blog. He reports about new releases and the feature they come with it and sometimes he posts some really nice tutorials to give examples how to use these features.
But of course the blog's focus lies more on the whole .NET Framework as only on Silverlight.
http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspx