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• Pixellated – Podcast Radio Interview and Silverlight

  I had a great time discussing Silverlight with Craig Shoemaker on his PodCast Pixel8.   Craig is a terrific interviewer; well informed, passionate, smart, Microsoft MVP , ASP Insider, developer, podcaster, blogger, co-author of Beginning ASP... Posted Aug 29 2008, 02:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Podcast, Community

• Sparkling Client – Monthly Podcast Guest

  I’m very proud and excited to announce that I’ve been invited to be a monthly guest on the Sparkling Client Silverlight Podcast. Details to follow very soon, but our initial shows include a discussion of Templates on September 23rd and of Databinding... Posted Aug 27 2008, 07:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Silverlight Tutorials Now In Japanese

  I’m very pleased to announce that the Silverlight Tutorials are now available in Japanese with more on the way soon.  (All tutorials in VB and C# soon as well)   -Jesse...( read more ) Posted Aug 27 2008, 09:02 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Tutorials

• A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight

  Back in June I posted a blog entry on how to get started with Silverlight; it seems it is time to update that as the world changes very quickly and we have many new resources. Each of us has our own way of learning, but here is my suggested path through... Posted Aug 21 2008, 06:18 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Community

• Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

  When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and... Posted Aug 16 2008, 08:34 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Candidate for favorite new utility

  I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip... Posted Aug 14 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• 3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of my To-do List

  I’m pleased to announce we’ve posted three new videos: Graphics and Brushes (never hurts to “brush up” on the fundamentals and I try to bring together what we were doing in 1.0 with what Blend brings to the party. Using Multiple Pages Part 2 covers passing... Posted Aug 12 2008, 06:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos

• Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

  I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:50 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Community

• One of the most unusual books I’ve ever written

  I’m pleased to announce the release of what may be one of the most unusual books I’ve ever written, Programming .NET 3.5 Briefly, it was our theory; generated long before I started work at Microsoft, that while there was good reason to write what I call... Posted Jul 30 2008, 07:33 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Tools, Recommended Resources

• One Team – 4 Books on ASP.NET 3.5

  I just released Learning ASP.NET 3.5 which is very exciting, through I must quickly and freely admit that my co-authors did a fantastic job shouldering the bulk of the task of the massive re-write to bring this book fully up to date for ASP.NET 3.5. The... Posted Jul 30 2008, 07:21 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Community

• New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

  I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code.   This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding... Posted Jul 30 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Data Binding, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• Camtasia Crash Tip Update

  Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I’ve been plagued by crashes, and it turns out that TechSmith, the wonderfully responsive folks who make the product... Posted Jul 28 2008, 10:17 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos

• Four Twitter Silverlight Blogs

  Because I’ve probably introduced more confusion than I have any right to, I’ll tell you quickly about 5 Twitter blogs I’m associated with… SilverlightNews – very popular and closely connected with one of the premier Silverlight aggregators: Silverlight... Posted Jul 27 2008, 02:09 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Ramblings, Community

• Check out our new Learn page!

  We listened, we heard, we acted. The new Learn page is designed to make it easier to get started, and easier to find what you are looking for. It is also pretty snazzy.  I’ve shrunk it to point out a few features that I think will go a long way towards... Posted Jul 21 2008, 02:20 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Community

• Web 2.0 Run Amok

  In the past few months, I’ve dramatically increased the number of channels from and to the community and since they are likely to cause some confusion, this post will briefly review and explain my intentions. First, the list: Tutorials Books Videos Webcasts... Posted Jul 14 2008, 12:12 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Community