When the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions are released, it will be easier to manage the history of your Silverlight application, and provide working links to areas of functionality. Raj demonstrates a technique using the beta extensions from Silverlight. The technique uses the new addHistoryPoint method of Sys.Application. Yahoo has some code to support history control as [...]

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Shawn suggests that line of business applications should not be written using Silverlight (and hence Flex), instead XBAPs (the run in browser Windows-only WPF solution). IT shops, with trimmed budgets and staff, have little time to maintain workstations and troubleshoot interactions between various installed applications. Web applications, although they may be more challenging to write [...]

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Demonstration available here. (You’ll need to wait for a moment while it loads the first time). I’ve created a reasonably simple, yet multi-technology (and discipline) demonstration using Silverlight for the user interface and ASP.NET as the back-end. The demonstration uses: Silverlight 2.0 Data binding Delayed downloading of images “Web services” ASP.NET LINQ Extension Methods Value [...]

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Try it here. See a picture below: I ran into one odd issue when using Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2….   void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // if you don’t invoke this asynchronously, you can’t add at load time // (seems to be a silverlight 2.0 issue) Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(delegate() { consoleCanvas.AnimateNewChild( string.Format(“Welcome!\nThe time right now is [...]

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