Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners

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If you’re a pro Silverlight developer, this post isn’t for you. Just a brief update that I’ve updated some of our getting started material for beginners – those who really haven’t done anything. These will be showing up on the Silverlight Community Site soon, but I wanted to post a link to it here first.

Getting Started with Silverlight Development is a 7-part series where I aim to do my best in trying to stuff as much as possible about Silverlight development in a simple application we develop at different steps. It uses:

• Navigation
• Styles/templates
• Data Templates
• Data binding
• Value Converters
• Silverlight Toolkit controls
• Isolated Storage
• Network connectivity
• Web service requests to a public service
• Out-of-browser experiences

I hope that it is simple enough for beginners to follow but also provide a broad spectrum of capabilities to the beginner. Full code in C# and Visual Basic is provided.

Hope this helps!

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About Tim

Tim is a program manager at Microsoft, working on .NET and developer tools (formerly UI frameworks including WPF, Silverlight, UWP, and WinUI). In the past Tim worked as software developer for various healthcare and consulting companies building client and web applications. Personally Tim is an avid cyclist.