Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2008 -- #241

Mike Snow has an article about creating a new SL2 project, Bill Reiss on adding keyboard input to our game, Shawn Wildermuth's Code Camp materials, Laurence Moroney on Dynamic Languages, Jesse Liberty on his SLMicroBlog, Karen Corby and Mark Rideout on Accessibility, and Lee on Listbox Styling.


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Mike Snow's Silverlight Blog

Funny how serendipity works... I came across the next article by Mike Snow this morning, and Bill Reiss blogged about finding another Silverlight Game blog -- Mike Snow's!... I'm adding him as a blog entry to SilverlightCream... definitely worth paying attention to.

PART II: Creating a Silverlight Application Project with Visual Studio 2008

This is the Mike Snow article I came across... you can never have too many articles telling you how to create a new project especially for something like Silverlight:)

Keyboard Input for Silverlight 2 Games

Bill Reiss comes back at us with a blog post about adding keyboard input for our game. He has also updated the code for the previous article, and has that change marked at the top of the article.

Atlanta Code Camp 2008 Presentation Slides and Demos

Shawn Wildermuth presentated a bunch of Silverlight at the Atlanta Code Camp 2008 and has made all his materials available to all of us!

Silverlight Dynamic Languages in Visual Studio

Laurence Moroney discusses Dynamic Languages for Silverlight 2 in Visual Studio and how to get started since there's no out-of-the-box template for it.

Tip of the Day Meets the Micro-blog

Jesse Liberty discusses his new SLMicroBlog... what?.. you're not subscribed yet???... go do that and come back:).. plus he's asking for all of us to contribute... now THAT should be cool:)

Accessibility in Silverlight 2

Karen Corby hosts a video by Mark Rideout on her blog where Mark discusses Silverlight 2 Accessibility issues.

Summary and detail in listbox

Lee has code up today on Listbox styling, and a screenshot of what you're going to be thinking about downloading... thanks Lee:)

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