As many of you probably already know, Silverlight 2 was released in the wee hours of the morning (3AM EST or 12AM Microsoft-time). We've noticed some inconsistencies with the upgrade process from Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to the Silverlight Release, so I figured I would share our findings with you here. It looks like there was an issue with the Silverlight Auto...
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Earlier this year I headed up a development team to build 2 Silverlight applications for The Weather Network. The first application to be released a few weeks ago is “ WeatherEye Golf ” ( press release ) which provides weather information for over 17,000 golf courses in Canada and the U.S. The second app that was just released last week is called...
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In Silverlight 2 Beta 1, storing user settings in IsolatedStorage was almost as much of a pain as storing user settings in Vista Gadgets (Except you can write .NET code to stream the data to file instead of using JavaScript). With the recent release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2, storing data in IsolatedStorage is as easy as storing and retrieving values from a web...
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