Where can you share--and find--design-related assets at Microsoft? Just a few weeks ago, we launched an easy answer to this dilemma. The Expression Gallery on the Expression Community site gives you a place to show off the projects you've been working...

The problem Creating a rich interactive application today is generally a time consuming and manual process with little opportunity to streamline and simplify the workflow across a team. Expression Blend 3 is tackling this problem and allowing UX specialists...

DeepZoomPix is an exciting technology demo to show what happens when design and some cool technology is applied to an increasingly common scenario: viewing large collections of photos online. We’ve all experienced it: someone sends you a link to their...

We have just returned from NAB 2009 where Silverlight 3 was revealed to the media world. Smooth Streaming, a feature of IIS Media Services that provides adaptive streaming media delivery to Silverlight, also made its debut. This is the third year I’ve...

Today, as many of you probably already saw, Facebook announced some new APIs to further open up access to the Facebook Stream through their new Open Streams API. Microsoft participated in their Developer event, where we began to outline and demonstrate...

This past week the entire Webby Awards platform, including The Webby People's Voice Awards voting system switched to Microsoft Silverlight. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, and has been sponsored...

Where do I start? That is a great question. Depending on whether you prefer to think in code or work visually the answer to where you should start will be different. For developers already on the Microsoft platform this is an easier question to...

An obvious question and one you’d expect to get an off-the-shelf answer to, so when I set out to answer it I first looked to the myriad definitions already written and the formal positioning statements for Silverlight. I duly consulted the definitions...

Dr. Dobb’s Journal and the Microsoft Visual Studio team have teamed up to create Dr. Dobb’s Challenge Deuce , a competition with $10,000 in prizes. They’ve built a Silverlight game where Dr. Dobbs and his team of friends work together to solve several...

This past month has been whirl wind to say the least! I’m so excited and amazed to see the support of our customers and partners on the blogoshere congratulating us on the advancements we’ve made within Silverlight 3 at MIX last month. We’ve made big...

The final buzzer has sounded and the results are in! Online coverage of the tournament has been a huge success, providing an exceptional experience for fans and solid business results for CBS Sports. The headline numbers : 3.2 million unique visitors...

Today we saw that MLB went live with a video streaming solution that is built using Adobe Flash and the Swarmcast NexDef browser plug-in for their HD streaming video experience. It is an example of how you can deliver higher quality experiences on the...

Welcome to the inaugural Silverlight/UX team blog. My name is Chris Carper , and I am a Director on the Silverlight Business development team here at Microsoft. This is what we hope will be many Silverlight blog posts from those whose day to day jobs...