I finally decided to move to my own site: http://tomafischer.com/ I moved most of the blog entries to the new site. Please update your RSS feeds. Thanks Tom

To gain more experience with Blend I completed some tutorials on http://www.nibblestutorials... Inspite of learning more about Blend it was interesting to see a full blown Silverlight app. It is very good looking but not being able to use the back button is kind of weird. My take on that is: For Webuser always provide a way to navigate back (I know windows user do not need it because they just use their undo button…) But I really like how they guide you through the basics. Also I was pleasantly...

The last 3 months I was writing a couple of smaller Silverlight apps. Coming coming from WPF I have to admit is is similar but still so different. They really stripped it down. So what do I really miss: No Binding to UI Elements in XAML (this really sucks...). I found a work around to bind to a State class, but it is not as elegant No {DynamicResource}. Only Static. This also really sucks. No skin change on the fly possible. No Event Triggers (e.g. onMouse over,...) but in SL2B2 they at least have...