Take a look at this video . It's a collection of all of Tim Sneath's portfolio of great WPF applications as a video anthem. You'll need the latest Silverlight install . Check out the 4th application. That's me that is ;)

Here's some key sentences that I think sum up the QandA session. Michael Arrington asks : What about the Internet as the new OS? How does it affect your thinking Ray Ozzie : The Internet changed everything, it is a network of networks which were previously...

As usual Microsoft are going to be working closely with the community to figure out what exactly Silverlight can do, but in the mean time Bob Bowman, President and CEO of MLB (Major League Baseball). They have about 8-10 DVD's worth of data every second...

So they just showed off Silverlight on the WM6.0 with streaming video!

So something that will come as a relief to Ruby developers is that the .NET Framework on the browser will be canonicalised to the format you're used to. Giving the syntax that you're familiar with.

So .NET supports loads of languages already. IronPython you'll have heard of, next on the list is IronRuby. Here comes a demo of IronRuby on a Mac...;)

So Beau Amber, CEO of Metaliq is talking about what he's been doing in Silverlight. He's gonna show off Top Banana, it's one of the first Silverlight applications built with Orcas, Blend 2.0 and the Silverlight platform. It's a video editing application...

Oh and the code for the Top Banana app is available for download, I'll post the URL as and when...

So there's a flight booking web application that Scott is playing with. He's extending it with SilverLight. This is desktop productivity, desktop interaction, desktop graphics on the web client.

The Visual Studio environment now compiles your clientside CLR code and syntax checks it, something which didn't happen in previous client based languages. This is another feature that is going to make web development much easier.

Scott's now demoing ASP.NET and WebServices integration with SilverLight. Just Add a WebReference as you would normally do to an ASP.NET application, but this is ON THE CLIENT. (Ok I'll stop bigging that up). Because of Visual Studio you can have both...

Check this resource out from Tim Sneath

So Scott is now showing off how Expression Blend integrates with SilverLight. He's taken Visual Studio project file, loaded it in Blend, stuck some gradients and timelines into it, saved it, returned to Visual Studio added an event handler and launched...

So ScottGu is demoing Silverlight, he's running on a clean XP machine, no .NET framework, no media player installed. He's downloaded a small ActiveX control that quickly installed the CLR, a whole load of video codecs and the application. There is a comparison...

Full .NET cross browser, cross platform CLR 300 - 1000 x performance over JavaScript Build .NET AJAX applications Multi-Language Support Full network stack... Wow...

So this is really exciting, a CTP of Blend version 2.0 is available for download now. It targets Silverlight, which is going to increase productivity with that platform almost as much as the announcement that there will be a version of the CLR that runs...

Unfortunately I'm not in Vegas, but I have been keeping up with the keynotes and some of the other cool stuff coming out of MIX 07. First of is a really cool WPF mashup application from thirteen23 called mixMe which brings back the latest blogs posts...

I've been having some issues of the past few days where, having successfully built our application, the deployment process fails with the message "application deployment error" and in the detail "Exception occurred during store operation...

Developer developer developer is a community driven "un-conference" that is hosted at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. It's an informal opportunity for developers to learn, share & interact with each other in a relaxed environment. Whilst Microsoft...

Soma Segar announced earlier today that the Web and Blend tools from the Microsoft Expression Suite are going to be included in the Premium MSDN subscription content. This is a bit of a coup for the .NET community who expressed considerable feedback...

I am a 'new hire' at Microsoft UK. I started on the 26th March 2007 as a consultant in MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services). My name is Simon Middlemiss and this is my blog. It is my hope that I can share some of what I learn as I fulfill my role a .NET...