Archive for September, 2008
Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released
Published on September 26th, 2008.
Good news for the Silverlight fans – the first Silverlight release candidate is released. Note that this is not the final runtime, it is developer only. It is released to let developers get into the changes and reform their Silverlight beta 2 applications. There are some breaking changes between Beta2 and this RC. You can take a look at this great article for most of them. As such, you can only use the RC for development right now – you can’t go live with the new APIs until the final release is shipped (which will be soon though).
You can download today’s Silverlight Release Candidate and accompanying VS and Blend support for it here. Note that Expression Blend support for Silverlight 2 is now provided using Blend 2.0 SP1. You will need to install Blend 2.0 before applying the SP1 service pack that adds Silverlight 2 support. If you don’t already have Blend 2.0 installed you can download a free trial of it here. (more…)
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Find Your Books in Amazon.com with Silverlight
Published on September 24th, 2008.
Introduction
Silverlight applications make it easy to perform a lot of actions. One of its greatest capabilities is to work with Web Services. In this article I will demonstrate how you can search books in Amazon.com with Silverlight. I have created a simple application which allows you to navigate through the great catalog of books very easily.
[ Online Demo | Source Code ]
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