Synergist

One of the features that I was glad to see added to Silverlight 1.0 was the Tag attribute which can be used to add any metadata (hidden) text to any visual element. I have been using it to add hyperlink features to my applications. Here's how I do it...

A customer of mine is creating a cool video sharing site with Silverlight and wanted to see some code for a simple buffering progress indicator to show the user that the video is loading. This is actually pretty easy with Silverlight so I thought that...

The technique described in my previous post will work for Silverlight solutions that generate XAML on the server side as well as solutions that have multiple static XAML files that are composited at runtime: < div id ="SLHost"> < asp : Xml ID...

A common practice with Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) is to expose the text as hidden DIV section in on the same page as the Silverlight control. I have crafted a page with a Silverlight application that has a unique word on it that is picked up...

Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily integrated with web analytics services like WebTrends On Demand . Web Analytics services collect data about web usage behavior and allow businesses to measure...

Once you start working with a good design tool enough, it changes the way you think and see the world. Learning to draw nude figures gave me an appreciation for drawing and then seeing shade and shadow. With demonstrating and using Microsoft Expression...

As most of you may know by now, earlier this year I left Mindjet to join Microsoft. Mindjet is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner who makes the mind mapping software MindManager. Since I have been at Microsoft, I've been "drinking from the fire hose"...

Now that many radio and television stations are streaming their content over the web, there are now multiple venues to let users listen to and watch that content. This live webinar will demonstrate how to build a single Silverlight application to playback...

When I was in architecture school at the University of Arizona, my first drawing teacher was Kirby Lockard . He taught me how to see, how to draw, and how to print, essential skills that an aspiring architect must master. Now that almost all architectural...

I’d like to announce an upcoming Webcast session that I’ll be presenting on Silverlight for Web Hosting Companies: What: Microsoft Silverlight For Web Hosting Companies When: Friday, September 28th, 2007, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time Where: Microsoft...

One of my proudest accomplishments at Mindjet was the creation of the Mindjet Labs , a community site that I created to show the power of MindManager as a solution platform. I still use MindManager for my work, especially when I am outlining and explaining...

I have run into two small glitches when creating Silverlight designs in Expression Design and I got the fixes from the Product Team. When you export a design to Silverlight XAML you may run into these problems: Viewport attributes are added to ImageBrushes...

This summer, I went to a great conference sponsored by one of Microsoft's partners, Layered Technologies , "the leading provider of next generation, self-managed, utility computing and hosting solutions." Layered Technologies offers dedicated server hosting...

I just watched a great interview on Beet.TV about how IdentityMine built the new Emmy Awards site for Entertainment Tonight using Silverlight. Because of my role in the Communications Sector, while this was being built, I saw all of the emails going back...

One of the synergies that generated the most interest was one where I demonstrated Virtual Earth running inside of Groove . Because of this interest, I have updated the demonstration to be able to track not only pushpins, but paths and regions as well...

As many of you might know, before I joined Microsoft this past Spring, I worked for Mindjet as an technical evangelist (one of my many titles) where I demonstrated the power of the MindManager Solution Platform through the Mindjet Labs . One of the coolest...

I just came back from an all-day Silverlight workshop that I gave at one of my customer's offices for about 25 people. I got some great confirmation about the designer-developer workflow that we are proposing with the Expression Studio. One of the more...

I am starting to see some parallels in my personal life and my work life. I have always tried to find the humor in life's rich pageant . After almost ten years of marriage, my wife has often said that I do it a bit too much; I'm always joking - but that...

From my point of view, Kyle McFarlin is just the type of person that Mindjet should be enabling! From his latest blog post , it looks like he loves MindManager (Mindjet's core product) so much he wants to become a "Mindjet Certified Trainer", but he's...

In a post I just made, I wanted to show a picture-in-picture screencast of what I did with Groove and Virtual Earth . I created a Silverlight application (that you can steal)with Expression Blend to host two parallel video streams in a picture-in-picture...

I have recorded a screencast with Camtasia Studio that shows how I embedded a Virtual Earth control into a Groove Workspace . If you want to see this in action, send me a message and I will invite you to the workspace. I will make another post shortly...

I have been experimenting with my Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 webcam: It clips to the top of my notebook screen and I got it to do more interactive chats/meetings and to record screencasts that I make with Camtasia Studio . I have found that I get better...

For those of you have heard, a Release Candidate for Silverlight 1.0 was released yesterday. I had written a few applications using the Silverlight 1.0 Beta and 1.1 Alpha. Because of some breaking changes, I had to update those applications. The process...

Following up on my post about putting Virtual Earth in a Groove space, I was able to save and load lists of pushpins that are in the Groove Space as well. I have written some simple XML serialization of a Virtual Earth Shape Layer into a hidden data field...

Later on today, I will be showing my manager how our distributed team could use Microsoft Office Groove 2007 to share information and track activities. I first heard of Groove, when I was at Mindjet and we had built a Mind Mapping plug-in for Groove ...