New Release First, if you wander on over to the AgFx CodePlex site, you'll see that there is a new release up. There's some new things in this new release such as some statistics about the performance of your application, the ability to specify exact...

Today, the CodePlex AgFx site went live, with a new updated release. Quite a few folks are now building Windows Phone 7 apps on AgFx and are having good luck with it. I’ve written a few more walkthroughs and detail pages on the documentation...

One of the great features of Visual Studio, that’s been around for a while is snippets. Frankly, I should build more of these because I use them *so* often. I find them so useful I thought I’d share them here, either for you to use or to...

Earlier this week I wrote a post detailing the application framework that I’ve been working on, which I’m calling AgFx. I wanted that post to be a bit of an introductory overview,. Now I’m going to dig into detail a bit more, as well...

Introducing AgFx One of the things we’ve spent a fair amount of time on is working with various application writers, helping them build great Windows Phone 7 applications. Many of the top applications that you’ll find on Windows Phone 7...

One of the main goals of the Portable Library Tools is to be able to implement your ViewModel in the Portable Library such that you can share it between your UI in your Silverlight, Windows Phone, or even WPF project. Unfortunately, this is a bit of a...

Earlier this week, we released the Portable Library Tools CTP .  You’ll need to install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta first, then it’s a quick install on top of that. What is it? Back at PDC in October, I did a PDC talk called 3-Screen Coding: Sharing Code...

In this series, I will be taking sample applications from the iPhone SDK and implementing them on Windows Phone 7 Series. My goal is to do as much of an “apples-to-apples” comparison as I can. This series will be written to not only compare and contrast...

In this series, I will be taking sample applications from the iPhone SDK and implementing them on Windows Phone 7 Series. My goal is to do as much of an “apples-to-apples” comparison as I can. This series will be written to not only compare and contrast...

This week we released an updated Silverlight Toolkit - the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release.   This release has some new components, but we spent a lot of time working to make sure that the Toolkit can be updated in an agile way, but still...

General Compat Thoughts The majority of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008 (PDC) release are Silverlight versions of controls already present in WPF. These "WPF Parity" controls include: DockPanel WrapPanel ViewBox Label Expander...

The Silverlight Toolkit is off to a great start and lots of people have been spending time writing content about how to use it. I'm a big believer in delivering a good end-to-end experience with the software my team produces, and the Silverlight Toolkit...

Today at lunch, Jeff mentioned to me that the default security policy on Windows Vista was causing some users difficulty opening the CHM help file. Jeff has all the details on his blog . You'll get a message that says "Navigation was canceled". If that...

Just arrived back home from a great few days down at PDC in LA. What a fun show to be at - even for people inside the company it's a great opportunity to learn about some of thee great projects going on. I'm really excited about Live Mesh and am looking...

On the heels of Scott Guthtrie's PDC keynote this morning, I'm very pleased to announce the launch of the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex! The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of components dedicated to making you - the Silverlight Developer...

As you know, today we released Silverlight 2 .  Scott mentioned the Silverlight Toolkit in his post as well - which is exactly what my team is working on .  We're driving hard to get the first preview release of the Silverlight Toolkit at PDC...

If you understood the title of this post, then you'll understand the question that's been in my head for a few weeks.  Recently, Microsoft released a preview of the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) up on CodePlex.  As I do with most things...

One of the things I was most excited about when we shipped the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 controls was the included unit testing harness, written by Jeff Wilcox .  I think it's a good thing when we can share some of our internal tooling.  It's good...

Here is the updated control sample for RC0. Just a few changes from Beta 2 - RCO: generic.xaml needs to now be in a folder called "themes" (case sensitive) rather than in the root of your project. In VSM transition declarations "Duration"...

Hmmm...no blogging lately...what has Shawn been up to?  Yes, guilty.  But here's what's been going on over the past few months.  Shortly after MIX07, ScottGu brought up an idea of building a larger team focused on building controls. ...

I've finally gotten the Silverlight Control tutorial sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. There have been some non-trivial changes to how controls are written between Beta 1 and Beta 2. My goals were to do more than a straight port. I wanted to...

If you're interested in what's going on with the new ASP.NET MVC project, Rob Conery has just launched a new series of webcasts that document the process of him building out an MVC Storefront .  He's been iterating on this idea for a few weeks and...

[UPDATE: For a Beta 2 version of this control, click here ] We're going to create this control: It's called the ExpandoHeaderControl, and it does two basic things. First, it has an area for a header, and a collapsible content area, with a ToggleButton...

Get Silverlight 2 Beta 1 If you were watching the Keynote from MIX08, you know that Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is now available for download . The package includes three components: 1) The Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime - installs the basic Silverlight runtime...

I'll be headed down to Las Vegas this week to attend the MIX08 show. This is the third year of MIX and it's by far my favorite Microsoft event, and not just because it's in Vegas. Like the last two years, this show should provide plenty of great surprises...