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Update – July 12th – Updated with Codeplex project info. In order to give easier access to all of the sample code and starter kits I am now hosting everything on my Codeplex account with all of the source being replicated from my GitHub account .      This means you will be able to grab...

What are Behaviors? Expression Blend 3 introduced us to a slew of new technologies including one of my favorites - Behaviors.  You can think of Behaviors as snippets of functionality that can be dragged directly onto elements on the Artboard.  This gives designers the ability to add interactivity...

The Launches Visual Studio 2010 Wow – what a week it has been for .NET Developers!  On Monday April 12th, Visual Studio 2010 officially launched at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas.  For those that missed it you can watch the entire Launch Event here .  Right after the event...

  The Keynotes I felt this years keynotes told a cohesive story better than any Microsoft conference I’ve been to.  After months of hearing about 3 Screens and a Cloud we saw a fulfillment on that promise.  Demo after demo the same tools (VS2010/Blend4) and the same framework (Silverlight...

Prior to coming to Microsoft, I lived the life of an Enterprise Developer for many years. The technologies changed, the people I worked with changed, even the industries were different, bu tone thing remained the same. IT was always asked to do more with less. There are numerous ideas floating...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the local NYC Silverlight Meetup recently.  The goal of the presentation was to give a starting point for the Silverlight 4 beta that we released at PDC09 as well as some of the new Silverlight features in Visual Studio 2010 .  Since this is a hot topic right...

It’s about Sharing One of the favorite things in my role at Microsoft is going out to local usergroup meetings (you can check out the full listing in the blog sidebar to the left).  The environment of sharing and enabling others to grow never ceases to impress.  Maybe it is the fact I am just...

It was great meeting a lot of you over the past few months and I feel lucky to be part of the communities we have here.  September kicked off my first roadshow and I didn’t know what to expect.  From the open Q&A, hallway conversations, to the number of people who left ready to install...

Over the next three weeks I will be packing it up, hitting the road, and talking directly with Developers and Designers like you!  From Philly to Norfolk to Harrisburg to Pittsburgh I’ll be showing off in person everything Expression Studio 3, Silverlight 3 and Windows 7 can bring to your applications...

Whether you are someone who leans more towards design or coding you have probably come across the need for some interesting fonts.  Typography is a fascinating area with a long history dating back to the origins of print.  When we look at creating an engaging user experience today we are often...

I had a great time meeting everyone at PhillyNJ.Net .  Lots of interest around Silverlight and Expression especially when it comes to Line of Business Applications.  As promised you can now download my slides and code.  The deck is a bunch of custom slides I put together that takes you...

This question has come up a couple times recently during my presentations and I wanted to point a potential snag you may hit.  In order for Silverlight to run Out of the Browser (OOB) it needs to have an xml manifest file included in your project. The file looks like this… You can have this file...

From the Cheesesteaks of Philadelphia to the crab cakes of Maryland my fellow geeks Dani Diaz and G. Andrew Duthie are hitting the road and coming to you! If you have been curious about the latest releases of Developer and Designer tools from Microsoft but don’t know where to start these events are for...

An Exciting Launch This week kicked off the “virtual” Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launches.  For weeks the SeeTheLight website had a placeholder countdown timer.  As UX Geek and Twitter user it was pretty exciting as we all watch the countdown slowly go down from days to minutes. ...

Tired of hearing from Microsoft about their Solutions?  Want to hear real stories from real customers and partners?  It’s time to Go Beyond Hello World – it’s time for the EntDevCon. Doug Hauger, GM of Windows Azure, will be kicking of the Keynote at the sold-out EntDevCon this morning at 9AM...

Lots of exciting announcements were made recently at the MIX09 conference .  I didn’t get to attend in person this year but I tweeted throughout the keynote and event.  Yes that is my tweet highlighted in the above screenshot while “ The Gu ” is talking on stage.  Got to love the convergence...

I still think I have one of the coolest jobs at Microsoft.  Not only do I get to speak my mind online , conferences , workshops and usergroups but I also get to go into actual customer accounts.  Which brings me to Twitter .  I know it sounds crazy to a lot of my Facebook , Twitter , and...

You may have already heard the announcement that the presidential inauguration committee has chosen to use Silverlight to stream the historical event today.  But you may not have heard everything and I wanted to clarify a few things.  I have been seeing posts on the internet of people saying...

Are you local to the NYC area and looking to get some hands on guidance for creating Silverlight and WPF applications?  How about a free 2 day hands on workshop?  Check out XAMLFest happening in the NYC Microsoft Technology Center : “Are you excited about the WPF but concerned about the learning...

Adam Kinney (aka Silverlight Surfer) has a great write-up on all the recently announced Silverlight 3 session for this years Mix conference in Vegas.  You can get all the details here . Be sure to check out Adam’s show on Channel 9 called Client Continuum packed full of Silverlight and WPF goodness...

Silverlight 2 has gone RTM!  Read the full press release here .     Grab the Visual Studio Tools, Expression Blend Service Pack and updated Deep Zoom Composer here . If you already have a Beta version of Silverlight 2 installed you will be prompted to upgrade to the release version the...

Had a great time at VSLive last week, some really good dialog went on both during and after the session.  It was good to see so many people in the session as well.  I know how hard it can be to get up on that second day first session before the caffeine kicks in.  You can grab all my slides...

There is some exciting things going on with our Enterprise customers today.  It started as a small trickle - Instant Messaging and portal collaboration.  Peoples eyes began to open and the whole "Web 2.0 in the Enterprise" buzz began.  Then came SharePoint and the ability to...

Check out this ABC News video on how the Democratic National Convention is using Silverlight to enable viewing on the web.  Similar to what you saw with the NBC Olympic coverage . There is also as a Microsoft Surface application at the convention to explore the history of the convention. You can...

As you may have heard , we released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM earlier this week.  Even though I wear a Microsoft badge - I always like to wait a bit before I install any RTM release on my "production" machine.  This isn't to say I don't have all the latest beta bits on two of my...