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Recently I was asked to make a ToolTip that now only followed the Thumb of the Slider but also showed the value of what the slider was (see image above).  I thought about this and I came up with a pretty quick solution.  There may be other ways to do it but watch the short 1o minute video to see how I did it.

Suresh Sreedharan talks with Cigdem Patlak, Silverlight developer about Silverlight and her user group and developer community acitivities around the technology.

It takes about 27 minutes but is much easier than you would think.  There are a lot of little things that you need to do but it is fun and when you are done you will be ready to make your very own Silverlight video tutorials just like me and possibly get MSFT MVP along the way.

In my original screencast (read here or on Channel 9), I showed you how to use the Silverlight Toolkit’s TransitioningContentControl to add automatic transitions between pages of your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application.  A few days after recording and posting that screencast, Microsoft released an updated version of the tools and the emulator.  Soon after, I started to get reports from folks watching my screencast that the TransitioningContentControl not only didn’t work with the April CTP release, but it prevented their entire application from running.

They discuss the road their teams took to create RIA Services, some of the decision points that helped shape the product, and the high level of community involvement in the product's evolution. They also demonstrate some of the features of RIA Services and give a glimpse at what the future may have in store for it.

90 second overview video of Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone.

As you probably already know there is no “built-in” way to accomplish Fast Forward with the Silverlight MediaElement.  So, in this 24 minute video I show you how to:

1. Create a new Silverlight application;
2. Add a MediaElement, a Fast Forward Button and a TextBlock for the video’s position information;
3. Create a PlayState Enum and a DispatcherTimer
4. Then on click of the button I show you how to a. Make the video Fast Forward at 1x speed and b. click it again for 2x speed.

This is a great explanation and walk through of how to open RIA Services domain services to clients, including:

• Silverlight clients (of course)
• Creating an OData endpoint and showing how Excel can use it
• Creating a SOAP endpoint to a domain service and using it from a Windows Phone 7 application
• Creating a JSON endpoint and having an AJAX application talk to it

Toaday I got a comment from a blog reader named Fracisco…I think he wanted to know how to load new pages into a Silverlight website.  Just for him, and because I think many of you have the same problem, I made a video tutorial where I show you how to:

1. Create a Content Holder UserControl;

2. Make two pages called HomePage and AboutUs;

3. In App.xaml load ContentHolder instead of MainPage.xaml (the default action of a SL app) [...]