Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2008 -- #359

August 31, 2008 · 2 min read

Erik Mork interviews Bill Reiss, Terence Tsang with Flash & Sl 3D Text Space, Shawn Wildermuth's ADO.NET & SL2 article in MSDN Magazine, Silverlight SDK reports on tutorials on their site, Christ Hay with a SL2 Spectrum Emulator, Mike Snow on centering your app, and Jesse Liberty on PodCast-a-rama!

Rob Bagby has announced MSDN Events in Colorado, Albuquerque, Phoenix and Las Vegas in September and October 2008... I've signed up for the one in Phoenix, so come on down!

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Silverlight as a Gaming Platform – Bill Reiss

Wow... a double-- my buddy Erik Mork is interviewing my buddy Bill Reiss... Great choice of interviewees... even if you're not interested in Silverlight Games, give this a listen... and subscribe to Erik's feed, too!

Flash and Silverlight: 3D Text Space

Terence Tsang didn't just say, hey... I can do this like they do in flash... he did them BOTH!... and has source for both... these are very cool... just to play with... and I've got some ideas for a use as well!

My ADO.NET Data Services/Silverlight 2 Article on MSDN Magazine

This is seriously cool... Shawn Wildermuth has an article in MSDN Magazine... then add to it that it's on ADO.NET Services and Silverlight... definitely one to bookmark...

Silverlight tutorials you might not have seen

The Silverlight SDK did some metrics and found some of their Tutorials haven't had much play. I haven't checked to see if I have all these linked, but I aggregate their blog, so I should... take a look at their list, plus they're asking for input.

Silverlight Spectrum Emulator

Chris Hay posted a Silverlight Spectrum Emulator. He says he's going to post the code on CodePlex, so go take a look at what he has... also has some good links on there.

Silverlight Tip of the Day #34 – How to Center your Silverlight Application in your Browser

Mike Snow has been playing with sizing the app with the browser page and all that.. this time he shows us how to center our SL app on the browser page.

Sparkling Client – Monthly Podcast Guest

Erik Mork and Jesse Libert have agreed to do a montly podcast with Jesse... considering all that is going on with Silverlight... I think that's a great idea... and Jesse also announced a Podcast with Craig Shoemaker on Pixellated – Podcast Radio Interview and Silverlight

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