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Business apps live on data. In this demo-focused talk, we'll show how we've made building data-centric business applications in WPF easier with the new DataGrid, Ribbon, and Calendar/DatePicker controls. As we build the application, we'll also give you a sneak peek at how building data-bound apps…

In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system on these platforms.…

This screencast is a continuation of a previous screencast entitled “Skins for WPF and Silverlight”. In this session we go beyond skinning built-in controls and learn what’s required to create our own skinnable (or ‘lookless’) controls. This screencast assumes existing knowledge about styles…

This screencast shows how you can host media assets as part of a Silverlight application on the Silverlight Streaming globally-cached content distribution network. Download the sample code By clicking the link above you accept the  license.

In this deep dive session we pull the covers off of the layout, rendering, and media pipelines to discuss how things work and how to optimize your application. This session covers how to set goals with your designer and developer teams, what happens behind the scenes with control visuals, the…

Here is Beau Ambur's session from the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco. He walks us through his iPhone replica he made for MIX 07 UK and then Top Banana, an app for editing videos with a very interesting UI. I think Beau is interesting speaker who always seems to have great…

The Microsoft Silverlight 3 FireStarter sessions took place in Redmond, WA on Thursday, September 17th.  There was a stellar line-up of Microsoft speakers, including a keynote from Scott Guthrie and presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and other community…

Brief walkthrough on using Blend to style a WPF application originally created with VS 2008 Cider designer;  see how you can seamlessly go back and forth between the two tools to get the best out of a developer (intellisense, code wiring, etc.) and designer ( styling, templating) tools for…

Mit neuem Anchorman (Jan Schenk, http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche), professionellem Moderations-Accessoire (Strohhut) und in symbolträchtiger Location (Fahrstuhl) meldet sich msdn tv aus der Sommerpause zurück. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Ausgabe steht ein ausführliches Interview mit Sebastian  Grassl,…

The Microsoft Silverlight 3 FireStarter sessions took place in Redmond, WA on Thursday, September 17th.  There was a stellar line-up of Microsoft speakers, including a keynote from Scott Guthrie and presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and other community leaders. You'll…