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Rudi Grobler has published a list of blogs which authors write about Silverlight, WPF, XAML and WP7.

Source: Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

Want to learn more about WPF/Silverlight/XAML/WP7? Here is the list of all the WPF Disciples!

In this video, Azret Botash covers the advanced binding options of the WPF Scheduler.

Source: Devexpress Channel

A while back I have showed you how to bind a Scheduler Control to OData. You can do the same with the WPF Scheduler Control. Watch this video where I show you how to this step by step.  

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In the last part of his "Touched" series, Mike Taulty takes a look at how the built-in controls work.

Source: Mike Taulty's Blog

Following on from that previous post I thought it might be interesting to look across the controls that ship with the various frameworks (i.e. WPF, Silverlight and Silverlight for WP7) and see how they respond to being dropped into a touch-based interface.

I thought I’d take a smattering of controls that I’ve come across in touch interfaces – Button, Calendar, Slider, ListBox, CheckBox/RadioButton, ComboBox, TreeView and see how they work out on the different platforms (if they exist).

Here are the previous parts of the series:

• Part 1 - Getting Touch for Free
• Part 2 - Raw Touch Events
• Part 3 - Manipulation and Gesture Support
• Part 4 - Simple Example

Nikolay Atanasov announces the latest major release of RadControls which includes new powerful data visualization controls, Data Virtualization for data-bound controls, supercharged RichTexBox and the most feature-rich and innovative ScheduleView control for WPF.

Source: Telerik Blogs

Q3 2010 brings more slickness, better performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF to allow you develop your most interactive and richest Line Of Business applications.

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In this post, Joe McBride explains how he built the Metro UI Style control.

Source: Joe McBride's Blog

I set out to create a control that could help me build a Metro UI.  If you’ve used the Zune Software I’m sure you’ve noticed that when you enter a new section it animates in.  A typical animation floats in from the left while also fading in.  Lets dive into how we can create a ContentControl to accomplish this effect for us.

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Here is the article of Mary Jo Foley that provoked so many discussions and reflections about the future of Silverlight.

Source: ZDNet

“Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said. Silverlight also has some “sweet spots” in media and line-of-business applications, he said.

But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me.

Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.

• Is Silverlight dead? Is WPF dead? Read what Denis Basaric thinks about that!
• Post-PDC HTML5 v. Silverlight Debate
• Silverlight will stay, don’t worry
• My position on the #Silverlight debate
• Few thoughts on PDC 2010 and the Silverlight destiny…
• Silverlight and HTML5 and Your Future

There are two discussions on LinkedIN and Facebook, where you can share your opinion about this hot topic for the future of Silverlight and HTML5.

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Joe McBride has written a very good post with lots of code about parsing OFX files in Silverlight.

Source: Joe McBride's Blog

I was looking for a simple OFX parser that I could use in Silverlight. I have previously used a very complicated version that was dependent on the full .NET framework. I wanted to simplify this and I ran across the a post on CodeProject by Rodrigo Diniz.

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Source: RIA Genic

WPF has a few problems to sort out, firstly there is what I call the convincing phase, in that getting people to initial embrace the latest version of .NET 4.0 is a challenge unto itself – which has next to no marketing attached. The second challenge, is the ask that folks get behind the learning curve / investment of adopting WPF instead of Silverlight for desktop based solutions. It’s a challenge because Silverlight Out of Browser has confused a little on which is best for what and where. The last but most important challenge of all is the learning curve attached to WPF, as it’s somewhat a very chaotic and noisy Google search to undertake.

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