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Creating your whole website using Silverlight isn't usually the approach you'll take--unless you happen to be a company specializing in Silverlight development.

At MIX10, I caught up with Emil Stoychev, founder of SilverlightShow. His company, CompletIT, located in Sofia, Bulgaria, created a very slick animated website entirely in Silverlight. It has everything from background animation, to cool folding effects, to a full portfolio to...flying pigs!

John ran into Silverlight MVP Ward Bell of IdeaBlade while at MIX10 (how could anyone miss him!). Ward was kind enough to sit and talk with John to show off the multi-touch application his company wrote for UFC using Silverlight. It uses multi-touch, Caliburn, MVVM, and, of course, Silverlight!

Some of you may have seen the Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps that were shown during the MIX10 keynote. If you missed them, here are videos of the demos that were shown during the keynote.

This post only focuses on the sessions from MIX that are Expression Blend specific. By now, all of the sessions from MIX should be available online, so head over to the MIX Sessions page to view more: http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions

Well, MIX10 is over.  It was a great time to meet a lot of people and see friends from afar.  As anyone knows, the networking is a HUGE part of being in-person at any conference…that vibe, value and friendship cannot be matched online.

But the sessions – there were a TON of them.  It is quite impossible to be in 3 places at one time.  Thankfully the MIX team recorded all regular sessions and make them available for viewing online or offline.

I’ve just done a session at the Montreal .NET User Group to share what I learnt at MIX10.

I talked about:

• Silverlight Media Framework open sourced
• Silverlight 4 RC
• Windows Phone 7
• Internet Explorer 9
• Pivot
• OData