Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio released!

You can now download the RTM version of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio.

These tools extend Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express with templates and support for Microsoft Silverlight 4 and RIA Services.

Silverlight Enables Choice Today for Third-Party Codecs

From time to time we get asked about Silverlight support for various codecs. The codecs change (today we’re getting some questions regarding WebM/VP8) but our answer is consistent regardless of the individual codec

http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-enables-choice-today-for-third-party-codecs/

Silverlight is now available for Symbian devices

Silverlight is now available for Symbian devices, such as Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97, ... .


Get the tools (right now all in Beta):


Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian – Beta Developer Tools


Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian – Beta

Getting Started with Silverlight for Symbian Beta

Silverlight for Symbian Platform Reference

Now we are waiting for Silverlight for Google Android and IPhone OS. Microsoft hasn't announced any information about that. But my guess is, that they already working on versions for it.


This move wouldn’t be too surprising since Silverlight was originally intended to be available on any platform.

How to call a method asp.net page?

If you are looking to enhance your web application using AJAX to provide a more fluid user experience, but you don't know where to start, you might want to start here... using code-behind page methods right in your client script.

One of the most powerful features of ASP.NET AJAX is its ability to tie back-end code to the users' browser in the form of JavaScript with the communication all behind the scenes. Although ASP.NET AJAX can interface with web services so well, you may not have the need or even want to create a web service to do some basic functionality; you may just want to use a method in your page class.

This article is going to discuss a 'real world' scenario where you might use ASP.NET AJAX to call methods on your page. The scenario is that of a "contact us" page. Most contact us pages follow a similar format: 1) display a form for the user to fill out, 2) validate that form against whatever requirements you might have and 3) display a "thank you" message to the user letting them know that you have received the message.

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