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• Unwrapping Silverlight 2

  Ahead of the first public Beta of Silverlight 2, Scott posts this overview and follows up with a series of tutorials that will get you up to speed with the breadth of features being introduced: Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight... Posted Feb 22 2008, 12:52 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft

• Free Microsoft Software for Students

  Microsoft is making professional development software available at no charge to post-secondary school and university students worldwide. The initiative called DreamSpark was announced yesterday starting with 11 countries, and will soon grow to more countries... Posted Feb 20 2008, 08:23 AM by Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Software, DreamSpark

• Life at Microsoft

  Booyakasha. If you've ever pondered the question, then check this look at life at Microsoft , courtesy of the folks at On10. Read More......( read more ) Posted Feb 14 2008, 10:49 PM by Blogs Filed under: Microsoft

• Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery

  More and more I find myself "skinning and themeing" my Visual Studio development environment in order to stay frosty . It's surprising how changing your theme (fonts, colors, etc.) can re-energize me when I'm having trouble with some... Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:54 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, Programming, Microsoft, Tools, Windows Client

• Olympics online coverage to be powered by Silverlight

  This one is big for my team . My colleagues and I on the Silverlight product development team are enthused about NBC Universal's choice of our platform to power the user experience on their site for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics. I think providing... Posted Jan 07 2008, 08:05 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Olympics, NBC

• ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET Conference

  I attended the ALT.NET Conference last weekend in Austin, TX. I personally find the name "Alt" as in "Alternative" too polarizing and prefer terms like " Pragmatic.NET" or " Agile.NET." At the conference I suggested... Posted Oct 09 2007, 12:57 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, Programming, Microsoft, Speaking, Ruby

• Joel Spolsky's brush with Vista's SuperFetch

  In a scathing post on the new Safari 3 for Windows , Joel remarks how slow the browser is while starting up. He likens Apple's performance claims as reality distortion, but later makes an update saying: The more I run Safari on Vista, the faster it... Posted Jun 14 2007, 04:18 PM by Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, windows vista, Apple, Safari, SuperFetch

• Microsoft Surface: What WPF Can Do For You

  Today Microsoft announced the Surface , a new line of consumer products that turn "an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, dynamic surface that provides effortless interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical... Posted May 30 2007, 12:55 PM by Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, WPF, Surface, PlayTable, Windows Presentation Foundation, windows vista

• We Popfly High, No Lie, You Know It

  With what it states as "another piece in [Microsoft's] company-wide outreach in helping non-professional developers build everything from Xbox games to Robotics to custom Web applications using Windows Home Server", Microsoft today announced... Posted May 18 2007, 02:29 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, Microsoft, Popfly, Mashup

• New To Programming?

  Microsoft's Beginner Developer learning center has great resources for beginner programmers intending to learn web and desktop programming basics. There's also a Kids Corner . Read More......( read more ) Posted May 15 2007, 01:26 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning, Programming, Microsoft, Beginner