What I Learned Today - Mono is getting to be faster then .NET in some areas

Today I learned that Mono might be worth taking another look at, as it is proving to be (at least in some cases) faster then the Microsoft .NET runtime. This is all according to this article, which is alleging that Mono may be overtaking .NET in some critical categories. So I've downloaded Mono and I'm going to see how well it plays with some of the chunks of code I've written for other projects.

I also learned how to include audio and video in Silverlight, by using the MediaElement object, but I have been having a heck of a time getting it to play nice when I add the media elements programatically, instead of coding them right into the XML. Still wrestling with that one, so it's not my official WILT.

What I Learned Today - Hello World in Silverlight

I have decided that I need to learn something new everyday in order to continue to progress as a developer and as a person. I will begin blogging about the new things that I am learning on a daily basis to track my progression and to act as a learning journal of sorts.

What I Learned Today: How to write a Hello World app for Silverlight.

I decided that I wanted to at least get a cursory introduction to Microsoft Silverlight Development, so I have started going through ScottGu's multipart Silverlight tutorial (which can be found here).

Overall Silverlight allows me to develop in the C# programming language using Visual Studio 2008 (which is a pretty slick development environment), so I was able to jump in with both feet and really start digging around. So far I have a Silverlight app with a button and a textblock and when I click on the button the textblock says "Hello World!". It's a first (lame) step, and I don't really know what I want to build as my first real project, so we'll see where it leads.

Well, there's my first What I Learned Today post. I have to say it feels good.