Adrian Mascarenhas' blog

We just released silverlight beta2 . Try it out and send me any feedback you have. Also, try out the NBC olympics site powered by silverlight. Click on any of the videos and it will launch the silverlight player.

So far I have completed my first two weeks on the Silverlight team. The transition has been quite hectic but fun: Managed to Native code. I have been training my eyes and brains to read native code. Looking at managed code for awhile can pamper...

After having worked on the Expression Blend tool for some time, I have decided to move on to Silverlight team. It has been fun learning about the tooling story, now its time for me to delve into the platform side of things. Today, we made some big...

If you are not yet caught up on Silverlight , I highly encourage you to do so. You can download the preview versions of Expression tools that support silverlight from here .

This a well known phrase and I have heard so many times at so many different places. But I got to experience it in a special way this week. As you know, I have been part of a product team known as Blend for nearly 4 years now and we have always been making...

Disclaimer - This is not a professional tool to enhance your presentation experience as the title of the blog post implies. It is merely a couple of hours worth of effort that I and a colleague of mine spent using our tool as our customers would use....

I have been using only Vista for a while now as my primary OS. I have it on my work laptop and desktop. Also, I do all my coding on Vista. So far, I have to say, I really like it. It has not crashed, the side bar is really cool (especially the stock ticker...

Last week, I actively engaged in answering newsgroups posts for Blend. Here are some features not supported for authroing in V1. However, if you create it manually by editing xaml yourself and then load the project in Blend, Blend should be able to handle...

These last couple of weeks, I have been working on a project that led me to think about the risks of code duplication and when would be a good time to get rid of it. Make no mistake, I completely agree that duplicating code of any sort and any extent...

I am super excited to be a part of Microsoft's Expression Studio . We just made a public announcement recently. I am sure you have already heard the buzz around the tools. In case you have not, here is quick recap - The studio consists of 4 tools:...

You can find the download instructions here . Feel free to download the CTP, use it and give us any useful feedback you may have. Tell us what you like, what you wish we had implemented, and what areas you think we can improve upon. Please send your feedback...

I loved the cool fisheye effect that Amir Khella described in his blog . He used a WPF grid, created grid columns of star width, placed objects within the columns and added handlers on mousemove/leave to change the star factor of the grid-width based...

Yesterday, I saw a demo of ZAM 3D by Mike Soucie & Jim Foley of Electric Rain . So I thought I'd give the tool a try. I am still quite new to the 3D world. But, I found ZAM 3D quite useful. It took me a little time to get used to the UI and figure...

Simple MSN Beta screensaver using Expression Interactive Designer - Part I...

Last week, I was testing a new way of using an existing feature. There was already an existing way of using the same feature and it was already thoroughly tested and automated. We were basically introducing a new execution path for the same feature. ...

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer team rocks!!! One of the things I value most in this team is the excellent synergy between dev and test. Our dev and test are among the smartest folks in Microsoft, and when the two work together closely it does...

My name is Adrian Mascarenhas. I have been with Microsoft for nearly 3.5 years. I currently work as an SDET (Software Design Engineer/Test) for one of the coolest teams in Microsoft, Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer . Before joining Microsoft...