Silverlight 2 Tutorials from ScottGu

Has anybody actually worked through these? If so, care to share how you got to the end?!

I don't know what's more annoying: the complete lack of quality control (again! clearly nobody tried working through them*before they were*posted) or the mindless fanboys who all rushed to post "Great news! Some great tutorials from ScottGu" blog entries without actually trying them.

The third tutorial has a whole bunch of errors in it. If you read through all the many comments appended to that tutorial blog*you will at least find fixes to get you through to the end, but this isn't the way a tutorial should work (especially when there's so little else around by way of documentation).

The fourth tutorial has comments too - mainly from people complaining that moving styling out into a central file (the subject of that specific tutorial) does nothing other than break the app. One guy has posted a "solution" (the whole of his app.xaml file) which clearly can't work - the compiler gives a very explicit*"DataataGrid *is not a valid TargetType" and yet magically*he seems to think it*works for him? I think not!

It would be really nice*if just for once Microsoft released something*which lived up to the hype that*their "passionate" advocates blogged endlessly about*WITHOUT*it turning out to be*yet another case of Emporer's New Clothes, really it would!*