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Integrating Silverlight with Community Server 2008.5

I’m sure Telligent will fully enable Silverlight parts into future Community Server releases, but until then, a couple of tricks are needed to make Silverlight play well with CS. The following points were made with Community Server 2008.5 release. Include

Let there be Light!

We all knew it was coming. Although not so soon. Now it is here. Silverlight 2. Open your Visual Studio. Grab your trusty mouse. Download the bits . And Light Up the Web! [4MB download 10 seconds install]
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Developing for ASP.NET mobile

Visual Studio 2008 introduced a lot of new features to support new technologies, adding some cool new designers to developer’s tool belt. On the other hand, support for some technologies was simply left out, leaving a some developers very unhappy. One

VSM4WPF

While next release of WPF (3.5 SP1) won't yet align with Silverlight's " Parts & States Model "  by not introducing VisualStateManager into its API, it's good to know that VSM is definitely coming to WPF. Even more, John Gossman has
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Silverlight Olympics

Want to tune into 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games with Silverlight ? Not in the United States, you say? Well, tough luck ;) This IP restriction thing is getting sillier by the day... Isn't Internet supposed to be global? What happened to World Wide
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Experience new Silverlight skins

Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough,

Silverlight 2.0: Creating a basic animation through code

In my previous Silverlight post, I mentioned Silverlight 2.0 API now allows creating animations through code. While this wasn't possible with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha [you would have to create of piece of Xaml, declaring a storyboard with all animations
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Mix'n'stuff

As expected, a lot of stuff was shown and discussed on the MIX08 keynote today: eight - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ( download ): better standards compliance, backward compatible mode, faster faster JavaScript implementation, embedded debugging tools,

Express your love with Silverlight :)

Want to impress your loved one with a Valentine's card tomorrow? Why not sending her/him a Silverlight Valentines? Silverlight and Windows Live teams created this card template for you to modify it and share your love. The process only takes four steps
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Tick, tock... Silverlight Challenge: one week left

Just a quick reminder: 1st European Silverlight Challenge is entering the finishing line. As announced , the competition ends next Monday, which still gives you plenty of time to polish your applications and give them some finishing touches. When ready,

Let Silverlight shine on YOU!

Join developers all around Europe in the ultimate Silverlight Challenge. Yes, the 1st European Silverlight Challenge is on and Slovenia is one of the many countries participating. For more information head over to Slovenian and European competition site,

"Call me 2.0... Silverlight 2.0"

Right... no more "Mister 1.1", no more Alpha - Silverlight 2.0 Beta is expected in Q1 2008 (@ Mix ?), bringing a rich set of controls (including DataGrid!), higher level of WPF UI framework, more connectivity options and richer BCL support.
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