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• Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats

  On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day... Posted Nov 21 2008, 07:49 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, Developer, events, Student, Software, XNA

• Having problems with layout? Switch to Plan B! [LayoutTransformControl scenarios for WPF]

  When I first wrote about adding full LayoutTransform fidelity to Silverlight with my LayoutTransformControl project, I mentioned that I'd found two scenarios where LayoutTransformControl's behavior differed from WPF's LayoutTransform . (Background reading... Posted Nov 20 2008, 01:50 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF

• 140+ hours of video on Expression training

  See you in 5.83333 days... :) Hat tip to Arturo Videos are here ( RSS feed here )...( read more ) Posted Nov 20 2008, 11:58 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, WPF

• An unexceptional layout improvement [Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2!]

  I'd almost finished patting myself on the back for managing to implement WPF's LayoutTransform on Silverlight using just the RenderTransform available on that platform. (Background reading for LayoutTransformControl: Motivation and introduction for Beta... Posted Nov 18 2008, 01:33 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF

• Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF

  Last week was our big PDC conference, and I've been busy catching up back at work this week.  I'm hoping to publish a bunch of new posts soon (including some on the PDC announcements we made).  Until then, here is the latest in my link-listing... Posted Nov 06 2008, 03:34 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, Atlas, WPF, Link Listing, MVC

• October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Building a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application... Posted Oct 23 2008, 12:46 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, WPF, Link Listing

• 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