I was listening to the latest .NET Rocks Podcast and was glad that Jeff Prosise was deflecting some of the misconceptions around Silverlight. In that as I was listening to the Interview I had a note pad open ready to simply fire off an email to debunk...

I've been an avid user of telerik's "RadControls for ASP.NET" for quite some time now. RadControls are essentially a control framework built on top of ASP.NET technology which allows the average ASP.NET punter to produce Rich AJAX driven solutions...

A few days ago I blogged about how I'm seeing Silverlight 3.0 wishlist (s) popping up all over the interweb for the end of year celebrations. At any point, I've been given the task of aggregating this data to hand off to folks within the Silverlight Team...

Well hot off the wire, Flip4Mac apparently enables folks to export into Silverlight for the web. What is Flip4Mac? Flip4Mac WMV enables Macintosh users to play, import and export Windows Media Video and Audio files in native QuickTime applications. What...

Michael "Delicate Genius" Kordahi sent this around via internal mail and it was a great find Kordsey.. http://www.mason-zimbler.com/festivegreetings/ The fact they were able to put together a Silverlight "holynight" music & lyrics...

I stumbled upon this blog entry over at spaces.live.com, where Scott Lovegrove (MVP) has put together a pretty sweet little application. This application enables you to view your uploaded Silverlight Live Streaming apps in a simplified way. It's something...

Ok, I've read about the 9th "I wish Microsoft would.." style blog post floating around on what folks want in 2008 for Silverlight/WPF. I think this is healthy and I'd love to see what folks would like for Silverlight 3.0 (Doubtful you'll get...

Local Silverlight guru, Liquidboy (Jose) has put together a sweet ball of code which essentially allows you to upload Flickr photos in Silverlight (via OpenFileDialog Class). I won't echo what he's done (as he does a far better job than I ever could)...

I was asked via Steam Chat today from a close friend of mine "Where can I get some decent RIA work.." to which I had a fumbled reply (weakness here for our RIA community). It was a great question and something I've often thought about in terms...

Well, lots actually. Take today, I woke up around 7am to get a start on some ideas / projects I've been brewing for a month now. I never got a single thing done as I was swamped in Video related S.O.S requests around Silverlight driven video sites. Now...

I couldn't resist working the words "JackAss" and Silverlight in that way, what can I say I'm still a goofy kid at heart. Onto the story at hand and that is JackAss 2.5 via Blockbuster will premier online via Silverlight. http://www.blockbuster...

One thing annoys me more than anything in this world, is when I hear folks whom aren't designers refer to them as "pony tail, black skivvy wearing..." and the comments trail off. It's not that I care whether they think we have pony tails, it...

In my RSS hunt & aggregate daily routine, I stumbled upon an article that initially made me groan . It did so as I thought to myself " here we go, another Proprietary vs Open Source debate, the never goes anywhere " and I was hoping that...

I often get queries, questions and so on around why I on one hand wear the Microsoft logo on my shirt, yet roam around the the place with a MacBook Pro. I also at times play around with Adobe Products as well as our own, and essentially the question mark...

It's been about a year now since I first got the phone call from Frank Arrigo giving me the thumbs up on a new role here at Microsoft . Given Christmas break is approaching, I decided to pause for a bit and reflect on how my year's been and the lessons...

You've seen our online community sites, you've seen our products. How would you design Microsoft tomorrow. It's a simple question, but I'm curious to hear what the people out there whom read this blog think around this space. Be warned though, you're...

A User Account Today. Typically when you set out to build a RIA, you look at what data you're about to keep about a persons account. In that obviously "Username, Password and Email" are three key pieces of information you need to begin. ...

Found this site via http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/download/free-icons.php I like the point "..It's more secure against virus and spyware..". I'm sending our IE Team a strong worded email outlining that I'm annoyed that I wasn't invited to the...