Light up your Silverlight skills with the all-new Global Silverlight Firestarter!
What is the Silverlight Firestarter?
- An Event: A one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted by Scott Guthrie
- Training: New self-paced labs and walk through videos
- Interactive: Got questions? Get your answers! Watch live and ask the Silverlight product team questions during the event.
- Why Silverlight? Silverlight is Microsoft’s strategic development platform for building interactive applications across desktop, phone, and the browser.
Something for Everyone
- Just starting out with Silverlight? Watch our On-Ramp sessions and work on hands on labs to get you started.
- Already Building business applications? Watch the event live and learn how to create compelling business applications with Silverlight.
- Got questions? Engage with the Silverlight product team live or in person with our interactive chat.
When - Register - How Much?
December 2, 2010 8am to 5pm PST
Register Online, Now!
Nothing! This is a free event
After the live event keep fueling the fire!
Dive deeper with additional hands on labs and videos that build on the live session content, accelerating you ahead of the crowd.
- Watch the entire event on demand!
- Plus, new self-paced labs and walk through videos
- On Ramp Labs (100 level)
- Hands on labs specifically focused on helping new developers get up to speed quickly on Silverlight
- Do you know WinForms? HTML? ASP.NET? Want to learn Silverlight? We have a lab for you!
- Building Better Business Apps (200-300 level)
- Hands on labs focused on taking advantage of Silverlight to build real world business applications
- Apply Data Strategies, Patterns, Out of Browser, RIA Services, and much more using Silverlight
- Turnabout is fair play! Watch a video of our experts doing the labs themselves.
FIRESTARTER LIVE AGENDA (PST)
8:00 am
Silverlight Firestarter Keynote
Scott Guthrie
9:00 am
Masterful Data Strategies with Silverlight and WP7
Jesse Liberty
10:00 am
15 minute break
10:15 am
Roll Out Your Business Apps Today with RIA Services
Pete Brown
11:15 am
MVVM: Why and How? Tips and Patterns using MVVM and Service Patterns
John Papa
12:15 pm
Lunch break
1:00 pm
Silverlight Today and Tomorrow (Special Guest Panel)
Panel
1:30 pm
Building Real World Silverlight Apps
Tim Heuer
2:30 pm
15 minute break
2:45 pm
Tune Your Application: Profiling and Performance Tips
Mike Cook & Jossef Goldberg
3:45 pm
Killer Performance Tips for Silverlight Windows Phone 7
Jaime Rodriguez
5:00 pm
After Party!
*** Sessions are subject to change
Spread the Word!
- Blog and tweet to spread the word about the Firestarter!
- Ask people to add the Twitter hash tag #slfs10 to their tweets
- Use the banners and blog bling (attached)
Questions
Got questions? Ask slfs@microsoft.com
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This version of the DataGrid contains the following improvements over the version that was released in the Silverlight 2 SDK:
- Almost 30 bugs have been fixed.
- Rows containing focus no longer disappear when the ItemsSource changes
- Selection is now preserved when sorting
- ComboBox and other controls opening a popup no longer end editing mode for the DataGrid
- Buttons outside the DataGrid work as expected when they are clicked while the DataGrid is in editing mode
- Improved FrozenColumn behavior.
- Improved cell currency.
- Selection is updated at the time when the CurrentCellChanged event is raised
You can download the updated release by clicking here.
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The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.
The Silverlight Toolkit defines four Quality Bands that describe the stability and finish-level of each component. Below is a summary of where the components currently in the Silverlight Toolkit fall within the quality bands.
- Components in the Preview Quality Band
- AutoCompleteBox
- NumericUpDown
- Viewbox
- Expander
- ImplicitStyleManager
- Charting
- Components in the Stable Quality Band
- TreeView
- DockPanel
- WrapPanel
- Label
- HeaderedContentControl
- HeaderedItemsControl
In addition to great controls, the Toolkit also includes a beautiful assortment of professional themes to make your applications stand out and improve the overall look-and-feel of your Silverlight UI. See the overview on Theming for more information.
- Expression Dark
- Expression Light
- Rainier Purple
- Rainier Orange
- Shiny Blue
- Shiny Red
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Continuing my link posting Silverlight Tips, I have been keep a list of Silverlight Tips for reference from the Silverlight team that will help developers get started using Silverlight. Well, the team has released some new tips:
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Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.
Microsoft also announced further support of open source communities by funding advanced Silverlight development capabilities with the Eclipse Foundation’s integrated development environment (IDE) and by providing new controls to developers with the Silverlight Control Pack (SCP) under the Microsoft Permissive License.
“We launched Silverlight just over a year ago, and already one in four consumers worldwide has access to a computer with Silverlight already installed,” said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft. “Silverlight represents a radical improvement in the way developers and designers build applications on the Web. This release will further accelerate our efforts to make Silverlight, Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Studio the preeminent solutions for the creation and delivery of media and rich Internet application experiences.”
Microsoft also will release the Silverlight Control Pack and publish on MSDN the technical specification for the Silverlight Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) vocabulary. The SCP, which will augment the powerful built-in control set in Silverlight, will be released under the Microsoft Permissive License, an Open Source Initiative-approved license, and includes controls such as DockPanel, ViewBox, TreeView, Accordion and AutoComplete. The Silverlight XAML vocabulary specification, released under the Open Specification Promise (OSP), will better enable third-party ISVs to create products that can read and write XAML for Silverlight.
Delivering Features for Next-Generation Web Experiences
Highlights of new Silverlight 2 features include the following:
- .NET Framework support with a rich base class library. This is a compatible subset of the full .NET Framework.
- Powerful built-in controls. These include DataGrid, ListBox, Slider, ScrollViewer, Calendar controls and more.
- Advanced skinning and templating support. This makes it easy to customize the look and feel of an application.
- Deep zoom. This enables unparalleled interactivity and navigation of ultrahigh resolution imagery.
- Comprehensive networking support. Out-of-the-box support allows calling REST, WS*/SOAP, POX, RSS and standard HTTP services, enabling users to create applications that easily integrate with existing back-end systems.
- Expanded .NET Framework language support. Unlike other runtimes, Silverlight 2 supports a variety of programming languages, including Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby, making it easier for developers already familiar with one of these languages to repurpose their existing skill sets.
- Advanced content protection. This now includes Silverlight DRM, powered by PlayReady, offering robust content protection for connected Silverlight experiences.
- Improved server scalability and expanded advertiser support. This includes new streaming and progressive download capabilities, superior search engine optimization techniques, and next-generation in-stream advertising support.
- Vibrant partner ecosystem. Visual Studio Industry Partners such as ComponentOne LLC, Infragistics Inc. and Telerik Inc. are providing products that further enhance developer capabilities when creating Silverlight applications using Visual Studio.
- Cross-platform and cross-browser support. This includes support for Mac, Windows and Linux in Firefox, Safari and Windows Internet Explorer.
More information and details about Silverlight 2 are available by reading the Silverlight 2 fact sheet at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/silverlight/default.mspx.
Get Silverlight 2
Silverlight 2 will be available for download on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight. Customers already using a previous version of Silverlight will be automatically upgraded to Silverlight 2.
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Microsoft has released RC0 for Silverlight 2 to allow developers to have time get used to the new changes before releasing to end users. Scott Guthrie posted a good overview of the updates that were included in the RC0 release. You can read a complete list of the breaking change from here.
Here are some of the new changes in this release:
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PasswordBox control added
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ProgressBar control added
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ComboBox control added
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New control templates (they’re much cleaner than the previous ones IMHO)
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API changes here and there and elimination of some assemblies such as System.Wondows.Controls.Extended
Downloads:
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