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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Chakravarthy's Space : Silverlight</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Silverlight</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Silverlight Podcasts</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/10/silverlight-podcasts.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:14:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1538923</guid><dc:creator>Chakravarthy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1538923</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1538923</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/10/silverlight-podcasts.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/SilverlightPodcasts_F282/sparklingclient_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" border="0" alt="sparklingclient" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/SilverlightPodcasts_F282/sparklingclient_thumb.gif" width="581" height="120" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sparklingclient.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Sparkling client&lt;/a&gt; is a podcast about Silverlight and other RIA technologies. If you&amp;#39;re interested in learning how to write great websites that use Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and others, give us a listen. If you would like professional advice in these areas, see the company we founded at &lt;a href="http://www.silverbaylabs.org"&gt;www.silverbaylabs.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The above is the definition from Sparkling Client website. I personally liked all of the podcasts. Must for every Siliverlight developer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Did you?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1538923" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx">Community</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Tips/default.aspx">Tips</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Tutorials/default.aspx">Tutorials</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category></item><item><title>IE 8 Beta1 and SL2.0 - Today</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/06/ie_2D00_8_2D00_beta1_2D00_and_2D00_sl20_2D00_today.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:23:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1535454</guid><dc:creator>Chakravarthy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1535454</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1535454</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/06/ie_2D00_8_2D00_beta1_2D00_and_2D00_sl20_2D00_today.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;" border="0" alt="image" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_thumb.png" width="676" height="287" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Today, I&amp;#39;ve downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at &lt;a href="http://visitmix.com/2008/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Mix 08&lt;/a&gt; by great personalities like &lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Scott Guthrie&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Bob Familiar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg" target="_blank"&gt;Guy Burstein&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;IEBlog&lt;/a&gt;, etc. According to &lt;a href="http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/IE8-Activities-With-Jane-Kim/" target="_blank"&gt;Jane Kim at an interview for Mix08&lt;/a&gt;, Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;" border="0" alt="image" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_thumb_1.png" width="483" height="379" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Apart of IE8.0 and SL2.0, there are other products such as&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32A3E916-E681-4955-BC9F-CFBA49273C7C&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Expression Blend 2.5 March&lt;/a&gt; CTP  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7FF7142B-84AD-4871-8E2A-EF37147AC760&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Expression Web 2&lt;/a&gt; Beta  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for VS2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve downloaded all these .. and am trying out one by one .. what about you??&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1535454" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/UserGroup/default.aspx">UserGroup</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Tips/default.aspx">Tips</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Microsoft+Promotions/default.aspx">Microsoft Promotions</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Tutorials/default.aspx">Tutorials</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/WebCast/default.aspx">WebCast</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Mix/default.aspx">Mix</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/VS2008/default.aspx">VS2008</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category></item></channel></rss>