On XAMLshare I just put the source for the video playing cards I showed in my PDC talk and on the Channel 9 video : Put the XAML inside XAMLPad (Beta 1) and qualify the .wmv references with their full path. Enjoy! Tags: PDC , PDC05

...was a parody video with Napoleon Dynamite and Bill Gates. It's too bad it couldn't be broadcast, because it was very funny! But Joshua Trupin has a blurry photo of it on his blog. Maybe there are more out there... Other highlights from Bill's part...

Now playing on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114690 This covers one item on that top 10 list . And the focus is on an existing applications... taking advantage of your existing code rather than rewriting everything from...

...come from Mike Hall : this and this . Tags: PDC , PDC05

PDC attendees got a "top 10" poster, but the details are now live on MSDN: " 10 things you can do to make your application shine when it runs on Windows Vista ." They are, in no particular order: 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich...

I don't know my entire schedule yet, but the following are some definite places & times where you can find me: Tuesday: 2:30-3:00PM: Fundamentals Track Lounge 3:00-4:00PM: Tools & Languages Track Lounge ("Meet the SDK Team") 4:00-5:30PM: Fundamentals...

As you might now, this PDC will be the 11th one. I've put together the logos from PDCs past (courtesy of Steve Cellini and Robert Hess ): Has anyone out there (other than Robert Hess) been to all 10? Do these images bring back any memories? As...

For anyone that was wondering about the fate of my audition , I got the following response today: Hello and thank you so much for your interest in Going Beyond Spotlight 2005!!! The response to our contest was OVERWHELMING with dozens and dozens...

To correspond with my PDC talk about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista, I've created www.winfxhearts.com . This site has a ClickOnce link that enables you can play a version of my new & improved Internet Hearts game. Here's a "before...

Volume 2 of the book that Brad affectionately calls the "SLAR" has been published ! He stopped by my office with a copy last week (since I contributed some annotations to it). It looks like a great book! Congratulations, Brad!

Every year that I've been at Microsoft (except last year!) we've had a huge company meeting in Safeco Field that is unlike anything else I've ever experienced. This year there's a new item on the agenda. From the company meeting website: "Do you...

Jim Miller, one of the CLR's brilliant architects, has been known to go months being clean shaven and go months being the exact opposite of clean shaven. He just switched modes again, and nobody at work recognizes him. He claims he did this because needed...