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Well, another Northeast Roadshow has come to a close and I must say it was the best one yet. I really enjoyed seeing everyone in Burlington, Rochester, Augusta, Farmington and Hartford. I have uploaded zip files of my slides and demos for both the IE8 and WPF sessions to the Roadshow SkyDrive. Stay connected...

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Silverlight 2 provides a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation Controls including a set of Layout controls such as Cancas, Stack Panel and Grid and visual controls such as Button, TextBox, Calendar, Checkbox, ListBox, RadioButton, DataGrid, Slider, and many more. In addition, designers and developers...

In order for your WCF Service to be invoked from Silverlight you need only change the default Web.Config EndPoint Binding setting from wsHttpBinding to basicHttpBinding : Optionally you can add the AspNetCompatibilityRequirements() attribute to your service class. This allows your WCF service to...

Rich Internet Applications Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) combine the maturity, stability and scalability of service orientation with state of the art display technology to create the next wave of web based distributed applications. One of the drivers behind the move to RIA’s is that in an Internet...

It was a pleasure to present at the Waltham, MA Visual Studio 2008 Get Ready Event. I presented the User Experience Track covering Office Business Applications using Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office (VSTO), Windows Presentation Foundation , ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight . I have collected my slides...

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Jeff Barnes has posted the information you need to get started with publishing Silverlight content to Silverlight Streaming on Live.com using Expression Encoder. Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Expression Encoder , Silverlight Streaming -bob

In my last post I announced the ReMIX07 Boston Soundtrack application and provided the iframe for embedding that application in your own web page. This post provides more detail on the architecture of the application and a pointer to the source code so that you can download it if you are interested....

What do these products have in common? Well they just moved one step closer to being released. And if you are a rabid early adopter junkie (REAJunk) like myself this is great news. Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for delivering media experiences and rich interactive applications...

A new site with on-line Silverlight tutorials, build completely in Silverlight by the way, has been launched. Check out Nibbles and the associated Nibbles Blog . -bob

I had a great time speaking at the MSDN Events this week on the topics of Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX and Silverlight. As promised here is the link to the content from the event. Here are other blog posts of mine that are also relevant: XAML Primer Making Sense of WPF and Silverlight WPF Digital Publishing...

The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies...

Microsoft is releasing technology at the speed of light (Silverlight to be precise). This may or may not be a welcome change from taking 5 years to release an OS but at least you can't say we are boring. Last fall we released .Net 3.0 which included Windows Presentation Foundation, a managed code...

The content from the May 2007 Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow has now been posted to the arcStreamEast web site. You can visit the arcHive page to download either the March event or the May event as well as the content from many other events held in the east over the past several months. Chris and I covered...

Based on community feedback, we are pleased to announce that we will be making Expression Web available starting today to all MSDN Premium subscribers. We will also make Expression Blend available to MSDN Premium subscribers shortly after the Expression Studio release later in Q2 2007. Expression Blend...