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In this screencast we take a look at how we can reduce the size of a Silverlight XAP by downloading Microsoft assemblies from Microsoft.com rather than packaging them into the XAP.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage....

In this screencast we take a look at how we can create bitmaps in Silverlight 3 in order to display on the screen and discuss other possibilities for those bitmaps that might show up in the RTM version of Silverlight 3.

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Andrew Fryer of Microsoft UK talking to Mike Taulty at the UK SQL Bits conference around LINQ and the confusion that LINQ can cause amongst DBAs given that the term LINQ appears in conjunction with many things including quite a few that have nothing to do with databases

At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about what he's currently playing with in his spare...

At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about how developers can prepare themselves for Cloud...

At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about the timescales for Cloud Computing.

A short screencast showing what it's like to install Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser applications onto Mac OS X. First, we put together a quick application which draws a chart from a WCF service providing data and then we deploy it out-of-the-browser on both my Vista machine and my iMac running OSX....

The WebBrowser control is a new addition for WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 - here we take a quick look at using it to browse a little HTML, load some HTML from a string or a stream and how we can call into browser code from WPF and vice versa.

A very quick screencast - looking at how we can put a splash screen on to a WPF 3.5 Sp1 application.

The bitmap effects from WPF 3.0 and 3.5 have changed in 3.5 Service Pack 1 in that we now get hardware acceleration and also the ability to plug in 3rd-party or custom effects by writing pixel shaders. Here, we take a quick look at using effects and building our own simple shader.