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
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I am new to Entity Framework but have spend a lot of time reading through the snippets of the code, Julie Lerman book, Scott Gu's blog...
I think I have come to understand a lot, but now am at a point when all needs to be tied together in quite complex layered project.
Since I have no background in developing for the web, and all examples that I could find are either simple console applications or are using ASP & MVC I have the hard time understanding the (ASP) examples posted - what is applicable in developing desktop application using WPF and MVVM?
In short, is there any layered example that is not simple console application or ASP.NET, that has CRUD elements?
This might help:
Microsoft Spain - Domain Oriented N-Layered .NET 4.0 Sample App
We currently choosing platform for RIA App. I looks at number of possibilities and so far.
Best UI I've seen so far was done on Silverlight. ASP.NET is more common but it's not as dynamic. So here is my question:
Is Silverlight sufficient platform for RIA App ?
A year ago I started a job where I took over development of a Silverlight RIA app. We have since ported the app over to ASP.NET MVC and we are much happier overall. I wrote a blog post that goes over our reasons for switching here
Silverlight is great technology that is truly capable of some amazing stuff. However, in my humble little opinion, it's not quite the ideal platform for a rich web oriented application. HTML/CSS/JS still rule the day if you ask me.
Netflix uses Silverlight for playing movies instead of Flash probably because of .NET. It has a smaller market share but a lot of the demos seem to be very professional.
Why not javascript and HTML?
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 am a ten-year veteran of ASP.NET and C# development and I'm moving into a position where I will be doing much more Windows Forms and WPF development. I have minimal experience with these technologies.
Can you recommend any good books or resources that will help me ramp up on these technologies quickly? I'd like to find resources that skip over basic .NET programming topics and get right to the heart of good application architecture, design and implementation.
There are many resources on windowsclient.net. This is the official, Microsoft run Windows Forms and WPF site.
That being said, I'd recommend only trying to get a very basic idea of Windows Forms, and instead, focus on learning WPF. This will help for Silverlight development, as well. WPF is the newer technology, and really is a better path going forward for future proofing yourself. By learning it first, you won't have to unlearn many bad habits you'll pick up with Windows Forms development.
Take a look at MEF and Prism if you are looking for good WPF application design. As for books - I'd recommend Apress' Pro WPF in C# 2008 (Don't know when it will be updated for 4.0, but relative few new things to learn here (mostly a few new controls and improvements in existing controls/syntax).
I really liked this video by Jason Dolinger on the MVVM pattern for WPF. It is a really great into what you can do with WPF, how data binding works, and helps get you thinking in the right direction.
http://blog.lab49.com/archives/2650
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