A Dullard's Guide
Information on development, Silverlight, HD DVD, HDi, and whatever else Amy feels is missing from the interblags.
The doctors predicted my expiration for August 2018 and much to my delight and surprise, they were...
Date: 11/29/2018
My team owns a REST service that takes a series of IDs as input and responds with documents....
Date: 02/06/2014
I have a solution that references a framework project and its tests. The test project uses Microsoft...
Date: 01/26/2012
You can now download the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate at...
Date: 02/10/2010
Visual Web Developer in Visual Studio 2010 has support in box for Silverlight 3 development and...
Date: 10/21/2009
Technorati Tags: Silverlight Tools,Visual Studio 2008 One of the prerequisites for Silverlight 3...
Date: 07/17/2009
1.6 million people registered for tickets to the service in which Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey,...
Date: 07/07/2009
[Edited to included updated Silverlight 3 Tools] When the Silverlight Tools fail to install, a log...
Date: 03/19/2009
When upgrading a project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3 Beta, the asp:Silverlight and object...
Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 2 projects can't be created with the Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008. When...
Date: 03/18/2009
A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released...
Date: 03/13/2009
The reported issues with installation of Silverlight Tools has been relatively low. But, there have...
Date: 10/17/2008
You've seen the checkbox on nearly all products from Microsoft. "I would like to improve the...
Date: 10/09/2008
The release candidate for Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio is currently available for the English...
Date: 09/30/2008
The first release candidate of Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for...
Date: 09/26/2008
The Silverlight SDK comes with a large collection of help documents to help you get started writing...
Date: 09/09/2008
SYMPTONSWhen creating a new Silverlight project or opening an existing Silverlight project, you...
Date: 08/21/2008
Today, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released. This service pack includes support for SQL...
Date: 08/11/2008
If you're an HDi developer who spends anytime reading this blog or the MSDN forum, you've probably...
Date: 04/25/2008
Today is my one-year anniversary at Microsoft. There have been a lot of changes for me in the last...
Date: 04/09/2008
Wow. The Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator was WAY more popular than we had imagined. Josh processed...
Date: 03/18/2008
Any of you who made requests for the Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator last week should have received at...
Date: 03/11/2008
Okay, so it turns out that offering the emulator for free was WAY more popular than we had...
Date: 03/05/2008
The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available! The emulator is downloaded through Xbox LIVE...
Date: 12/13/2007
An HD DVD player may throw exceptions during the execution of script, and if not caught will result...
Date: 12/07/2007
If you know what an error code means, it can be immensely helpful in diagnosing the problem with...
Date: 11/27/2007
If you know what an error code means, it can be immensely helpful in diagnosing the problem with...
Date: 11/27/2007
In HD DVD subtitling can be done via a subpicture stream or an Advanced Subtitle. An advanced...
Date: 11/21/2007
The input tag has four options for mode: password, singleline, multiline or display. When an input...
Date: 10/24/2007
Have you ever been working on an HDi project and needed to look up a method name in Annex Z, but you...
Date: 10/24/2007
Today's sample was created upon a request from my very nice and hard working office-mate Chris. Last...
Date: 10/18/2007
General Why is Microsoft involved in HD DVD?Microsoft supports HD DVD because the mandatory player...
Date: 10/17/2007
In a previous post, I stated that when you press the stop button on your player, you have 2 seconds...
Date: 09/24/2007
I have received a couple requests for an example of networking, so I put something very basic...
Date: 09/20/2007
If you've purchased a DVD player in the last few years or used a software player, likely you've...
Date: 08/19/2007
One of the great features mandatory on every HD DVD player is at least 128 MB of persistent storage....
Date: 08/15/2007
Today's game example is inspired by Ocean's 13 (available on HD DVD this fall). Blackjack is one of...
Date: 07/31/2007
Before I started working on HDi, I was a web developer. I found the transition to HDi pretty easy...
Date: 06/26/2007
There have been a lot of JavaScript games created for the web. And, because HDi is based on web...
Date: 06/01/2007
When you're building your HDi applications, you can use the BUILD_PROJECT.BAT file you downloaded...
Date: 05/15/2007
I am a big fan of automating where I can. I am not a big fan of remembering command line arguments....
Date: 05/14/2007
As you have noticed, every resource that you use - script, markup, images, audio, etc - must be...
Date: 05/09/2007
As you begin working on your playlists, manifests, and markup xml files, you will find attaching the...
Date: 05/07/2007
Hello World is a very basic application. But, now let's take a look at one of the samples that has a...
Date: 05/04/2007
In my last post I mentioned that you can use an OpenType font if you wish to include dynamic text in...
Date: 05/03/2007
Lets open up the Hello World sample that came with Jumpstart and go through the components that make...
Date: 05/03/2007