Answer My Query

Check out the new book “Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook” by Vibor Cipan:

This is the overview taken from the publisher site:

The first and only book to focus exclusively on Silverlight UI development.
Have your applications stand out from the crowd with leading, innovative, and friendly user interfaces.
Detailed instructions on how to implement specific user interface patterns together with XAML and C# (where needed) code, and explainations that are easy-to-understand and follow.
Real world projects which you can explore in detail and make modifications as you go.
Written by Vibor Cipan – Microsoft MVP for Expression Blend and WPF, and Silverlight UX specialist.

I’ve just received my copy and I’m looking forward to read it in the next days!

Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ gives you a simpler and faster way to create professional-quality Silverlight business applications for the desktop, the Web, and the cloud.

Download and try the first beta of the new member of the Visual Studio Family today!

I’ve been wanting to catch up and explore the (relatively) new Silverlight PivotViewer control for a little while but just hadn’t managed to find the spare cycles. The announcement is about 6 weeks old at this point which shows how far “behind the times” I...(read more)

It looks like there is a download available of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 if you’re an MSDN subscriber. ( via the official blog )...(read more)

Today, I’m running both MetroTwit and Bend which show up on my desktop as; and neither have the traditional Windows decoration around them and I’m wondering whether having the non-client area of a Window drawn with transparent glass as in; led to a bunch of...(read more)