Tales from the Smart Client

The name of the product I work on is Microsoft Expression Code Named "Interactive Designer/Sparkle". This is not the final name. For four years it has internally been known as Sparkle. So for a history of the product, I'll use that name. I wasn't around...

Expression Interactive Designer (aka Sparkle) is a 100% .NET, managed code application. The source is currently more than 1200 .cs files and about 140 .xaml files totally 210,000 some lines of C# and 23,000 some lines of XAML. There is no unmanaged...

In my history of Sparkle I mentioned I had worked on ToolBook. That solicited this comment: Asymetrix's ToolBook? Wow, that was so ahead of its time! Just make sure Sparkle runs faster! :P Sorry, could not resist. I am sure Sparkle will rock....

I'm speaking at a lunch session on the 16th about how we built a large client application using WinFX, in particular Windows Presentation Framework (aka Avalon). The application itself will be announced at PDC, but for the purposes of this talk it doesn...

Now it can be told...I am a developer on Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer aka "Sparkle". We finally announced the product at PDC last week and I gave a presentation on how we built the product. I promised the attendees I would blog the content...

Pete Blois joined the team just this year, but has tons of experience in the space. His blog is here: http://www.blois.us/blog/

I turned on "comment approval" a while back and used to get e-mails telling me comments were waiting. Apparently my Spam filter was eating them, so I apologize to Daniel who posted several notes, in particular this one: John, Mano...