Mike Harsh's Blog

Last year at MIX we announced that we were integrating .NET development into Silverlight and today we’ve released a version with .NET support. This is a huge milestone for the team and we’ve been working obscene hours to get it ready. There’s a nice set...

Telerik has created a set of UI controls based on the February CTP of Silverlight. They've got live demos on thier site including a nice 3D cube based selection control. This is a cool UI metaphor and I expect we'll start to see more of this as rich internet...

bubblemark.com has created a very cool 3D demo using Silverlight. This was posted 2 weeks back but I missed it somehow. More information, including source code, can be found here and you can click the image below to run the sample. I was getting 43fps...

I’ve spent 25 hours over the last 3 days talking with folks, showing and explaining Silverlight to anyone who came by Microsoft’s NAB booth. My feet are killing me and my voice is absolutely raw, but man was it worth it. The booth was stacked 5-6 deep...

Phew. No more “WPF/E”. I sure won’t miss that name. From now on the technology will be called Silverlight. The consumer and developer web sites can be found here and here . Also, we’re working on a new Silverlight community site that will launch soon...

Hugo Ortega has posted a video about the UMPC-based Audi keyboard he’s been working on. This was a cool moment for me as it’s the first time I’ve seen WPF/E used not as a technology showcase, but as a great way to deliver a media experience. The Audi...

Tucked away in a multi-topic post , Scott has posted an incredible overview of WPF/E. His slide deck provides the best intro to our technology I’ve seen yet. Starting at around slide 12, the deck drills into the WPF/E programming model including both...

Gavin Gear of the Ink team has created a WinForms app that takes a XAML string and turns it into a javascript variable . Very handy for calling createFromXaml.