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• I’m in it for the Technology

  My annual review is coming up. This is the time when you’re encouraged to reflect on what you’ve done over the past year, and what you want to be when you grow up. While thinking through mine yesterday, and thinking about the ones from the past twelve... Posted Aug 28 2008, 12:14 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, WCF, Zune, XNA

• Are You Using WPF as Well? Let Me Know!

  For those of you working with Silverlight 2 , are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:46 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET

• RIA Job Openings on the Rise

  If you know Silverlight or WPF, the job market for those skills is really on the rise. Same for Adobe Flex. Found via Twitter (thanks to whomever tweeted it!) "adobe flex", silverlight, javafx, openlaszlo, wpf Job Trends "adobe flex"... Posted Jun 09 2008, 07:25 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, Consulting

• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available

  This one almost slipped past me. Lots of folks have asked about ways to automate encoding videos for Silverlight applications both on the client and on the server. Ben Waggoner just announced that Expression Encoder 2 includes a .NET object model for... Posted Jun 06 2008, 10:57 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, Expression Encoder

• Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse

  During all my Silverlight and WPF talks, one point I try to make is that in those technologies, the important aspect of an out-of-the-box control is not its particular display properties, but its model and its ability to be customized. Back when we used... Posted May 13 2008, 03:52 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, User Experience (UX)

• HLS DevCon

  The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more. April 22 - April 24 2008 Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel... Posted Apr 02 2008, 03:42 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, AJAX, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Events, SOA, Silverlight Mobile

• Silverlight 2, Images,... running on .NET Micro Framework Web Server

  The next beta of Silverlight 2 is available online since yesterday. Another announcement appeared in the news is that Silverlight (maybe only version 1.0 for now) will be available on Windows Mobile 6  and Nokia S60 and S40. Last evening I could... Posted Mar 06 2008, 12:43 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, UI, .NET Micro Framework

• WPF and Silverlight 2 Themes - Reuxables

  WPF and Silverlight applications cover a whole spectrum of application types and richness from incredible full-screen applications incorporating 3d and video to games to good old standard (but highly usable and attractive) business applications . It's... Posted Feb 21 2008, 11:46 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, RIA, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications

• Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, Ajax - Which One is for Me?

  Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:43 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, RIA, Business Applications, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture

• Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)

  I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing . Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing... Posted Dec 21 2007, 09:11 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WPF, Media, WPFE, AJAX, .NET, Design, Controls, Mobile

• Nintendo Wii and Silverlight: Tracking Your Fingers

  While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers . The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth... Posted Dec 20 2007, 06:52 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, Media, WPFE, .NET, Source Code, UI, Controls, Mobile

• Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List

  Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight . The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or final version: When building Silverlight 2.0 Web applications... Posted Dec 20 2007, 02:21 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, Media, WPFE, DLR, .NET, Flash, UI, Blend, Expression Studio, Controls, Pocket PC, Mobile

• [de] Silverlight Get Together

  (English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.) Am kommenden Donnersten, den 26. Juli 2007, veranstalten wir einen kleinen, kostenfreien Workshop zum Thema Microsoft... Posted Jul 23 2007, 03:02 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WPF, Media, WPFE, AJAX, DLR, .NET, Source Code, Ajax.NET, UG Meeting, Web 2.0, Atlas

• [de] .NET User Group Franken am 5. Juli 2007

  Die .NET User Group Franken trifft sich mal wieder, diesmal in den Räumen der evosoft GmbH (Dank geht an Igor Milovanovic ). Themen Daniel Zeiss spricht zum Thema ComfortASP.NET , nachdem ich ihm ja die Zeit beim vorletzten Treffen gestohlen hatte, sorry... Posted Jun 13 2007, 04:14 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, WPF, JavaScript, WPFE, AJAX, DLR, .NET, UG Meeting, ComfortASP

• Silverlight Tutorials

  There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications: Mix 07 Silverlight Sessions Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2) Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 2 of... Posted Jun 06 2007, 02:29 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, ASP.NET, JSON, WPF, JavaScript, Media, WPFE, AJAX, DLR, .NET