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• My Favorite Utilities…

  About twice a  year I try to publish a list of the utilities that I use all the time… not the ones I like in theory, but the ones that I use – that make programming or computing easier, faster, better.  Here's my list for the end of 2008. Programming... Posted Nov 02 2008, 12:45 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community, Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser

• Greetings From PDC – Get Ready….

  PDC is a wonderful conference but get ready for the onslaught of announcements, new material, information overload… I can assure that there is a lot of great stuff, and of course Tim and I and many others will be focusing on those announcements big and... Posted Oct 26 2008, 10:15 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Community

• Silverlight and Data

  Tim and I and many others have been discussing, off and on, the frequent requests for videos/tutorials/demos, etc. that show how to move data into and out of databases and display them in Silverlight. On the one hand, my response is that the very question... Posted Oct 19 2008, 01:02 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Tools, How Do I Videos, Data Binding, Digging Deeper, Opinion, Community, Observations

• Silverlight 2 Release Guide

  As promised, Silverlight 2 is now not merely released, it is really and most sincerely released… If You Are A New Silverlight Programmer If you are taking this occasion to become a Silverlight programmer, welcome! Everything you need is here on the Get... Posted Oct 14 2008, 09:28 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Tools, Recommended Resources, Community, Observations, Breaking Change, RTM

• 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

• 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