I will be doing a talk about the basis of game development in Silverlight 3 on the 16th of December 2009.  Please note that the talk will be in danish!

After my talk there will be an open discussion about the subject “Game development in Silverlight” .

For more information and registration see : http://cnug-dec2009.eventbrite.com/

Hope to see you there.

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My conversion of the XNA starter kit to Silverlight, using SilverSprite, have been accepted into the Silverlight Community Gallery. This is really great and I hope it helps somebody out there. You can view it and download the source from the link above.

You can see my original post about the conversion here: http://laumania.net/post/Porting-XNA-starter-kit-Platformere2809d-to-Silverlight-(SilverSprite).aspx

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The samples have been upgraded to Silverlight 3.0, which means that the source code is now targeted at the Silverlight 3.0 Tools for VS2008. Besides that the Farseer Physics Engine code have been upgraded to version 2.1.1.

Go and get the new release from Codeplex.com

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Just a hit, to save you from using time on this problem as I just did. I don't know if this is something to do with Silverlight 3, I can just say that I have never experienced this problem before.

I'm currently working the game Little Longhorn and have just upgraded it to Silverlight 3. Beside not understanding why they removed the asp:Silverlight control, it went pretty painless. Well, untill I opened up my game in FireFox 3 (3.5). In FF my game where gone! It never appeared. I could see it in the source of the site, but it never showed up. After pretty much time comparing to an "clean" silverlight 3 application, I discovered that I needed the style below:

#silverlightControlHost 
    {
        height: 100%;
        text-align:center;
    }

Actually it were the height that were missing. Apparently FF don't give the surrounding div an height. Just a little FYI if you get into this problem.

Hope it helps.

Silverlight 3.0 seems to be out, also the developer tools. It seems to be a day too early, as http://seethelight.com/ says "1 day left" at the moment.

It might be Microsoft preparing for the lauch party tomorrow or an error, no matter what they seem to be here both of them, which is nice!

Silverlight 3.0 Developer Tools

Silverlight 3.0 runtime

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UPDATE: Just saw this on twitter, so it might be smart waiting a little: "@shanselman We're in the process of releasing SL3. I jumped the gun-not ALL sites are ready. Avoid weirdness-wait til t'mrw morning."