Silverlight
Silverlight
Today I had one of those moments when while working I opened some random link from a Twitter post that seemed interesting. What I saw literally blew me away. The screenshot above shows a clip from a Channel9 video posted on Adam Kinneys blog, yes you’re seeing the original Quake but what's really impressive is that its running inside a browser using Silverlight 2! Wow, thats just freaking cool. So the credit here goes to Julien Frelat, a 31-year old French developer with experience in game development who ported the Quake engine to C# and...
I want to thank everyone who attended my presentation today at the NYC .NET User group on Silverlight 2. It was really great to see such a large crowd and so many familiar faces. Above is a link to my presentation including all notes and links. I plan to post the source code for the demos as well at a later time, simply no time to do so today.
I am extremely exited to help promote Tim Heuer’s post on the release of Silverlight 2, RC0. Tim has done an excellent job describing exactly what this release means to the developer community and end users, so check it out here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/09/25/silveright-rc0-released-for-developers.aspx Summary For anyone who just wants a summary of Tim’s post here are the points I think are the most important to communicate: This release is for DEVELOPERS ONLY The intent is to get DEVELOPERS debugging their code against this build before the...
If you tried to create or open a Silverlight 2 Beta 2 project after installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (sp1) then i suggest following this installation order to try and resolve it: Step #1: Cleanup your machine http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A494B0E0-EB07-4FF1-A21C-A4663E456D9D&displaylang=en Note: I also manually uninstalled all SL2 components I had previously installed Step #2: Install VS 2008 SP1 (or leave it installed) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en (or ISO version if you want a one-time download) Step #3: Install the SL2, BETA 2...