29 Sep, 2008
Hey everyone! This is time to choose the winner from The Silverlight 2 ‘Write and Win’ contest. There are 8 articles submitted in total. Please vote your favorite article here. You get a chance to vote your faviorite author until 23:59 GMT 05 October. The winners will be announced on 06 October 2008.
- Silverlight and Drupal: Syndication
- Tutorial: Create a Silverlight 2 User Control from a Popup Control
- Silverlight and Drupal: Popular Content
- Silverlight ComboBox
- Virtual earth deep zooming
- Find Your Books in Amazon.com with Silverlight
- Silverlight Stock Portfolio
- Building a Framework for Silverlight Line-Of-Business Applications
29 Sep, 2008
Hello All,
How are you doing? I hope everything is fine with you. Please accept my apologies for not posting anything lately in my blog. (I don’t want to repeat that I’ve been so busy this time. hehe ) I’m writing this post because I would like to share some updates that you might interest.
WPF and Silverlight Insiders
Yes. I’ve been invited to join WPF/Silverlight Insiders team last month. Some of you may not know what WPF/Silverlight Insiders is. The insiders are the group of people who invited by Microsoft to give the feedbacks on their new products.
All insiders got the early build of Silverlight and other new products. We also have the private mail list where we can discuss about anything relate to those products with other Insiders, MVPs and (of course) Microsoft team.
I really enjoy to be a part of that team. Initally, I was not so sure whether I’m allowed to tell my friends about WPF/Insider team and etc. That’s why I didn’t post about that last month. Now, I come to know that it’s okay to share about that with my friends.
I’m planning to write the series of tutorials in my blog. I will let you know more about that later. Stay turned.
SLUnity - Configuration
As you all know, I’m participating in UnityContrib project to contribute the Silverlight version of Unity (SLUnity) for Silverlight Community. I recieved serveral requests to support the SLUnity Configuration. I tried to port the project in very simple way and I got it working for very simple scenerio. One of my friends from UK was helping me to test my ported version of SLUnity. He pointed out some intesteing scenerios that I need to look at it. I’m really appreciated his help on this. I will take some time to share the code of SLUnity.Configuration with you. I also like to see what Unity team will offer for us.
25 Sep, 2008
Scott Guthrie just published the official post about the release of Silverlight 2 RC in his blog. You can read the original post here.
You can go and download the installer from this link. http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/sl2rc0.aspx
Downloads
The most wanted control “combobox” is available in this bits. Plus, it works with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Yay!!
16 Aug, 2008
The Silverlight Application “The Heart Race Test” is a contest which is hosted on “2008 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix” promotion website. They are giving a way Formula 1 ticket and an XBox 360. If you are a Singaporean or PR or EP holder, you can participate in that contest. Okay. Let’s take a look that application.
First of all, the girl-dancing video will be displayed on the screen for 2 or 3 mins.
You will see some interactions between one video to another.
At the end of the introduction videos, you will see the list of top 20 girls as below.. They are smiling and looking at you to get your attention.
If you mouse over on a particular girl, the girl that you select will be so happy and she will do jumping or laughing or etc. Don’t forget to look at other girls. 
(I really like this idea. ) Okay, anyway, choose the girl you like the most. then, the quiz screen where you can answer 10 questions and the girl that you chose will be appeared.
At the end of quiz, it will ask you to enter your name, email address and phone number. Then, it will shows how many percentage you match with the girl that you choose. (There is one problem here. Let’s you don’t click “Show Me” button at the end of quiz for 5 or 10 mins. then, you click that button. What will happened is that the application will show the wrong girl. )
If you are a Singaporean, PR or EP holder, please ensure that you give the correct name, email and mobile number. You will get the chance to win F1 ticket or XBox 360. Good luck!!!
15 Aug, 2008
Hey Silverlighters! Time for new contest!! Silverlight ‘Write and Win’ contest will be hosting on SilverlightShow.net this time. Go to http://www.silverlightshow.net and submit your great article!
The contest will be started at 00:00 GMT 18 Aug.The dead line is 23:59 28 Sep. You will get one week for voting and then, the result will be announced on 06 Oct 2008.
All the best!
15 Aug, 2008
Rusty Howell from Novell announced that they have released the next version of Moonlight. You can download the Firefox Plugin from this link and install it on your Linux box. If you are willing to get more closer with Moonlight, you can get the whole sourcecode from here or you can check-out from SVN.
svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/moon
Download ~
What is Moonlight?
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems. The official Microsoft Silverlight plugin doesn’t work on Linux or Unix systems so that Mono team developed Moonlight, an open source firefox plugin, for Linux users.
According to the bug list, there are currently 59 issues in this release. I hope those all will be resolved very soon. If you encounter any issue with that plugin, you can send it to the Moonlight team via this link. Enjoy!
