wpf/silverlight links

scott guthrie’s silverlight 2 intros are here

some silverlight references/articles i’ve found very helpful:

Silverlight Architecture

Silverlight Controls

Silverlight User Interface Controls - Silverlight

Silverlight: QuickStarts

Silverlight: QuickStarts > Building Dynamic User Interfaces with Silverlight > Creating Custom Controls

Working with Animations Programmatically (Silverlight 2)

Excellent Data Binding Overview

How ImageSource works

End to End DataCentric App <-- VERY GOOD OVERVIEW OF LOTS OF STUFF

asp.net mvc overview:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/13/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-1.aspx

wpf and mvc:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/MVCtoUnitTestinWPF.aspx

some good blogs:

http://geekswithblogs.net/wynapsetechnicalmusings/Rss.aspx <---- DON’T MISS THIS ONE! it’s a compilation of others’ relevant blog posts

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/rss.xml

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/rss.xml

http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/rss.xml

http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/rss.xml

http://www.drwpf.com/blog/Home/tabid/36/rssid/1/Default.aspx

regarding reflector, app is here: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/. msft also released a bunch of their source code recently, you can find the silverlight-related code here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea93dd89-3af2-4acb-9cf4-bfe01b3f02d4&DisplayLang=en

silverlight 2 beta 2

installer is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=50A9EC01-267B-4521-B7D7-C0DBA8866434&displaylang=en

there is no problem installing this on your normal dev machine, but note that i had to manually uninstall KB949325 (in Vista it's listed under Program and Features > Installed Updates) before i could get beta 2 installed.

a good summary of changes is here: http://adoguy.com/2008/06/06/What_s_Changed_in_Silverlight_2_Beta_2.aspx

and fuller lists of breaking changes (there are lots of them!) are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645049(VS.95).aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/attachment/8574227.ashx.

the release version is expected “end of summer”, so assuming beta 2 is as solid as beta 1 was, this is the version that the classroom will first go live with--