Dinesh at beyondrelational.com has a detailed post on creating a basic Silverlight application using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft has shown a huge commitment to Silverlight and though most developers will be well aware of it I think there is still a lot of value in pointing to basic tutorials for students or professionals who are not yet actually involved in programming applications with it. Redmond has an outstanding tool in Silverlight and if you would like to help yourself stay relevant in the business in the future you would do well to educate yourself on this part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 suite.
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Building iPhone Apps
You might know my friend Dave as one of the guys behind Bob’s Picklepops, but I know him as the old buddy who just can’t stop talking about his brand-new iPad. He’s sifting through the net for good tools to get the Picklepop e-book into the app store quickly and cheaply as both an iPhone app and an iPad app, and he pointed me to these two tools:
Interface is a very, very nice $9.99 mockup and prototyping tool for iPhone that runs on your iPhone. Check out the five-minute video that shows just how much you can do in five minutes with one hand, so to speak.
Yapper gives you a way to turn RSS feeds into not just App store-ready iPhone applications, but Android, Blackberry and iPad apps too. Write no code! WYSIWYG! The app is $99 but the customization options are pretty impressive. You can run an RSS feed from your site through their demo in just a few minutes and see just exactly what you’ll get.