The first success that I’m able to report for my Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to RC0 porting is my Photobucket Silverlight library that I’ve been working on.  What the Silverlight team didn’t mention in their postings on Silverlight.Net is how many bugs...

In preparation for the upcoming release of Silverlight 2, we have released Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) to developers to start the process of updating their code.  Scott Guthrie just wrote about this in his blog yesterday. All of the details...

One of the fun Silverlight 1 applications that I built over the past year was Ball Watch's Trainmaster Cannonball ( http://xmldocs.net/ball ).  After seeing an ad in Wired magazine, I contacted the manufacturer with an idea and was sent a 2.93 MB...

Over the past few months, I have been helping a small team at Stanford's Center for Professional Development launch a site which lets people around the world attend Stanford engineering courses free-of-charge.  Built with ASP.net using Windows Media...

I was looking at the stats for the Word 2007 XAML Converter that I posted last week to CodePlex and I found a site that I had never heard of before - someone had posted a link to the project.  When I went to the site, http://www.dotnetguru.org/modules...

I just changed my Windows Vista to use 120 DPI fonts and I really like the look of applications and the Windows interface.  The added detail is very easy on my eyes.  One side-effect of this is that my code to insert Flash videos from Photobucket...

Over the past few months, I have been working on a Silverlight kit for Photobucket's API .  I have used this sample to demonstrate a few things: How to build an API kit for a REST Library How to adapt existing .Net code to Silverlight (OAuth Library...

This one is even funnier.

Last year I created and uploaded a demonstration project to Popfly that converted a Word 2007 Document to a WPF FlowDocument.  The best example of a FlowDocument can be seen in the New York Times Reader , an instance of Syndicated Client Starter...

Today's big news from the IBC2008 conference in Amsterdam was that we will be demonstrating a technology preview of H.264 and AAC support in Silverlight.  I know that I can't take all the credit for this announcement but in my role as an evangelist...

Today I took my boys to the Golden State Model Railroad Museum in Point Richmond, north of San Francisco.  I brought my camera to try out the new Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth .  Alex is in the green shirt and Sam is wearing a red one.

Because I work from home, I need to stay connected with my colleagues, my customers, my partners, my friends: my community.  As I try to stay connected with people in my virtual community, I am trying out all sorts of social networks on the web. ...