Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Silverlight Examples that Actually Work

analysis
May 11, 20071 min

When I posted about the book Getting Started with Silverlight last Friday, I made the incorrect assumption that the Silverlight examples mentioned in Shawn's book would work. Unfortunately, some of them were for a previous version of Silverlight, and Microsoft made breaking changes for the beta release. Oops. In fact, the only Silverlight samples I have found that actually do work are the SDK samp

When I posted about the book Getting Started with Silverlight last Friday, I made the incorrect assumption that the Silverlight examples mentioned in Shawn’s book would work. Unfortunately, some of them were for a previous version of Silverlight, and Microsoft made breaking changes for the beta release. Oops.

Silverlight Grand Piano sample
In fact, the only Silverlight samples I have found that actually do work are the SDK samples listed on the MSDN Silverlight Dev Center page, the samples listed on the Silverlight home page , and the samples in the Silverlight community gallery . There is quite a bit of overlap between the Dev Center and the gallery, by the way, although that should change as more people contribute to the gallery.

Scott Guthrie has posted a long blog entry that covers the Silverlight development plan for 1.0 and 1.1, and talks about the .NET Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Scott also includes links to a lot more content: MIX talks, an interview, some video tutorials, and a poster.

Also, Rob Unoki has posted a tantalizing blog entry about Silverlight and the .NET Compact Framework. Would you believe Silverlight on a smart phone?

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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