Now that the Phone 7 has launched internationally and now the US I finally have time to blog about all of my adventures in leading application migration experiences from the iPhone over to Phone 7. As the compete lead for Microsoft's Central Region in...

To those who have been coming to my blog at http://www.flyover18.com/christhi I will be consolidating all of my entries and moving them to this blog: blogs.msdn.com/christhi. Apologies for the temporary inconvenience!

Are you a blogger, press, or simply interested in seeing some of Microsoft’s latest technologies such as Windows 7, IE8, Silverlight 3, Surface, and much more.   Come visit me at 414 W 14th Street in New York City starting June 1st.  ...

  New Portal Goes Live, Go Daddy and startups.ro Featured, Robotics and CCR & DSS Toolkit Available, and More From signing up more than 12,000 Startups in just six months, to launching the new BizSpark portal to the Worldwide Partner Conference...

Want to win prizes and meet some of the top local Venture Capitalists face to face? What about some of the top Angels in Texas? Need information on how to market yourself both traditionally, virally, or through SEO? Want access to free software for 3...

with pixel shaders in silverlight 3 effects such as blurs and drop shadows are literally one line of xaml markup – no code required.  More advanced effects can also be applied by writing your own pixel shader or leveraging the already converted WPF...

Want to meet some of the top local Venture Capitalists face to face? What about some of the top Angels in Texas? Need information on how to market yourself both traditionally, virally, or through SEO? Want access to free software for 3 years? Then join...

  The State of .NET in Dallas (FREE) When: Tuesday, May 28, 2009 - 1:30 - 4:30 PM Where: Microsoft - Dallas Offices - 7000 SR-161 (George Bush Turnpike)   A free, unbiased look at the current and future development with .NET.   Join Markus...

Check out my interview on the business maker radio show last weekend.  We discuss the bizspark program and how it benefits startups through free software, support, and promotes visibility for their new company.

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For those who didn’t make it to Mix 2009 or those who want to get a short “elevator pitch” version of the what sketchflow is and does I put together this screencast for you.   In it I review the top features in sketchflow as announced at Mix...

Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, highlights of new features and functionality of Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements...

It has been awhile since I blogged briefly about the new feature provides by silverlight 3.  Since Mix 2009 I’ve been compiling a list of those features and wanted to provide you with a summarized version of them.   As you can see the list...

It seems as though there have been several issues for MLB.TV in their video delivery since they’ve converted from silverlight to flash.  http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162805/mlb_in_social_media_stumble_with_mlbtv_blog.html?tk=loom_art...

As you all have seen, we had a great deal of positive buzz coming out of SxSW this year.  Microsoft’s investment in SxSW has been growing year after year, with more and more resources both coming to and participating in the event.  PhizzPop...

if you are looking to build office applications in Silverlight such as an mail client, word processing, et al check out http://divelements.co.uk/silverlight/ .  Yes the following screen shot is actually running in a browser using Silverlight. ...

Silverlight 3 Beta · The Silverlight 3 Beta contains more than 50 new features and 20 new controls, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video quality and performance improvements, and features that dramatically...

MySpace Announces Support for Microsoft Platforms 1. What Happened? · Today, MySpace announced support for Silverlight and Windows Mobile - http://in.sys-con.com/node/898377 2. Why is this important? · It is important for MySpace because it opens up their...

ok now that my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek I will admit this title is a little deceiving.  Not the free software part, that is true.   But the fact you have to be unemployed to receive it.   To receive free Microsoft...

Team System 2008 and Beyond (90 Minutes) Team System 2008 provides allot quality feature improvements over 2005 and with the release of VS 2008 SP1 many more options are now available. Although Rosario is months away we also take a good look at...

You can use HTPS with TSWA with Forms based authentication. We do have customers using it with SSL, and some of our own internal deployments using it. Enabling SSL is just like enabling it for a regular IIS website.

http://www.epocalipse.com/blog/2006/04/05/vssconverter-tip/ If you need to run VSSConverter (The command line utility to migrate SourceSafe projects to Team Foundation Source Control ) from a batch file and you don’t want the utility to prompt for...

These would be a good compliment to the general security code analysis in Team Developer won't detect denial of service attacks and other more advanced security vunerabilities from the any GUI buffer so I've complied a list of tools that will... ...

If anyone are curious about what Microsoft’s official support policy for TFS in a non-MS virtualized environment (e.g. VMWare, etc.) here it is. Key points hightlighted. Basically having premier services makes this better but either way they may have...