Read the README that’s included as part of the XAML Toolkit CTP. The big thing to note is that FxCop 10 Beta 2 does not currently support Silverlight.  You’ll have to use FxCop 1.36 and force it to run in .NET 4 to get things to work for Silverlight.  If you’re running WPF, FxCop 10 should be fine.  (FxCop 10 RC & RTM wills support Silverlight)

Many Silverlight examples show how to build controls with XAML. But XAML does not support programming logic. So sometimes you need to build the controls with real code in C# or VB. This example demonstrates how to build a Grid and StackPanel with Buttons first in XAML and then in C# and VB.

I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service. That is, everything you know about a WCF service should be true of a DomainService. I didn’t have time to get into this in my talk, so I thought I’d hit the highlights here. And in the process show how to consume a DomainService from a WinForms.

One of the features you may have missed that was added to the Silverlight 4 beta is the new CompositeTransform class. The new class provides a simpler way to transform an element, by simply offering a single object to instantiate rather than a group of transforms made for specific transforms. To animate properties, you will no longer need to name multiple Transforms or access them by index (hoping they were added in the expected order).

One of the cool features for Silverlight 4 Out-of-browser applications that was announced as a part of the Silverlight 4 beta release is the NotificationWindow class. Most commonly referred to as “toast” these are the little notifications that popup in the system areas of your operating system to provide helpful (and sometimes annoying) information.

If you’ve been working with Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight (or WPF) development, you’ve likely used the Open in Expression Blend feature in Visual Studio. This occurs when you right-click on a XAML file in your project/solution and you’ll see that option as long as you have Expression Blend 3 installed.

Last week, the Silverlight 4 beta release included the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. This single installer would perform the following (assuming you had either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 already installed

The common technique many developers use to debug Silverlight Out of Browser applications is to attach the debugger to the SLLauncher.exe process. However, there is a another way to debug installed OoB apps. Attaching to the process does not allow you to catch and debug any startup code however this technique below does allow you to do so.

Visual WebGui brings the Win(dows) Over Web revolution which uses well known Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) development paradigm for web and cloud.