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• Remix videos online

  Remix was only a few weeks ago now, and for those that missed out on the experience we have uploaded all the sessions and recordings for the event to the Remix site.   Highlights for me: Anything by Bill Buxton! How we built the wall by AllofUs Becoming... Posted Oct 07 2008, 08:29 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, WPF

• What You’ll Hear at PDC2008

  My favorite conference is almost upon us. If I’ve been quiet for a little while on my blog, it’s because this has been a crazy busy season for me and my team, as we put all the pieces in place for PDC2008. PDC is Microsoft’s flagship conference, both... Posted Sep 23 2008, 12:14 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, Visual Studio, WPF, training, RIA, Windows Live, windows, silverlight 2, windows 7, live mesh, pdc2008

• Windows Live Mesh, Silverlight and the CoreCLR

  Disclaimer: Everything in this post is pure conjecture by me, done by simply poking around my system and talking to myself. I don't work for the Live Mesh team, nor do I know anyone on the team. Anyone could have written this. I was talking to Harry... Posted Sep 05 2008, 03:18 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, CLR, WPF, Windows Client, Mesh

• Billy Hollis on Making a good UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

  I was chatting with Billy Hollis about how we often use new technology to do the same old thing and how I was seeing lots of folks doing this with WPF and Silverlight. He mentioned that he had done a video in UI Design with WPF. Check it out, its great... Posted Aug 26 2008, 10:02 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, Misfit Geek [Silverlight], Misfit Geek [Syndicated], Misfit Geek [WindowsClient], Videos

• I'll be at Remix UK in Brighton on 18-19 September

  I'm going to be at Remix in Brighton on 18-19 September. It is going to be great. Tonnes of great content. Great speakers. Great location. It should be the Great British Remix :) I'll be there in my new role as Expression Product Manager, rather... Posted Aug 14 2008, 10:12 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, WPF

• Hanselminutes Podcast 120 - The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML

  My one-hundred-and-twentieth podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Felix, a Designer, and Richard, a Developer about their Odd Couple relationship as they create Silverlight and WPF applications. They also speak frankly about their opinions as full... Posted Jul 07 2008, 12:57 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, Windows Client, Podcast

• Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

  DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight.  Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services.  So far the application is in WPF, but they... Posted Jul 07 2008, 11:00 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF

• Loving the South African Developer Community

  I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there.    User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg  - thanks for setting... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:12 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, AJAX, .NET Framework, WPF, Mix08

• New VSM Tutorials by Celso Gomes

  See http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ for a bunch of great tutorials with Blend. In particular, Celso just posted a tutorial for VSM. See the Blend 2.5 & Silverlight 2 section…...( read more ) Posted Jun 09 2008, 08:40 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, WPF, blend, tutorial

• Silverlight Roles, Profile and Authentication Example Updated for Silverlight Beta2 Now with Visual State Manager (VSM) goodness!

  I am very excited about Silverlight Beta2 shipping recently ...  I took a few minutes to update my recent sample " Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight " post to Beta2.  While I was at it, I... Posted Jun 08 2008, 11:23 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, WPF

• Pages in Silverlight

  Pages as a paradigm likely pre-date the web itself although they have been popularized by document-based markup languages deriving from SGML. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with XAML further codifies Pages as a first-class UI element from its heretofore... Posted Jun 08 2008, 09:00 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Navigation

• May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF

  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page... Posted May 21 2008, 01:02 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, .NET, Atlas, Visual Studio, LINQ, WPF, Link Listing

• WPF 3.5 SP1: Don't let the SP moniker fool you

  Yesterday the WPF team shipped some major horsepower features in the vastly understated preview Service Pack to .NET Framework 3.5. It is an exception to the rule for an SP release to have features, and not just bug fixes. In the mold of Windows XP SP2... Posted May 13 2008, 10:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

• Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls

  One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes... Posted Apr 04 2008, 04:37 AM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, .NET, Visual Studio, WPF, Tips and Tricks

• Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content

  Deploying Silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Despite occasional misconception, Silverlight doesn't require a Microsoft-based web server: Apache can host up Silverlight content just as happily as IIS. But there's... Posted Mar 18 2008, 08:11 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, XAML, silverlight streaming, windows, silverlight 2