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I was very excited to hear that the Virtual Earth (VE) team was creating a Silverlight control and that they announced at Mix a CTP (Community Technology Preview). I promptly downloaded it and started playing with it. From the Circus Mashimus contest...

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mash-up applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and...

Internet Explorer: Why it Crashes and How to Fix It 10 Useful Internet Explorer Accelerators Feedback and Engineering Windows 7 Smooth Streaming FAQ Beta Release of Smooth Streaming

One of my customers has been using the Silverlight 2 DataGrid and came to me with a request:  How do you make a column take up all of the rest of the available space (like the Grid * column width)?  If I were doing this in MFC or Windows forms...

One of my publishing customers is going to start building a series of E-Learning application in Silverlight and we will be starting off with a two-day LiveMeeting web conference workshop on February 25 and 27 (9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT).  On the second...

I’ve been involved with the planning of this very cool event next week but unfortunately I’ll won’t be able to attend (I’ll be in Tahoe Skiing with my family).  If you are interested in seeing what creative agencies can do with Microsoft technology...

I’ve been learning how to build Silverlight 2 Custom Controls and wanted to share my first one.  Since I work with a number of creative agencies, I thought that an Ad Rotator would be relevant; this one can rotate ads that are images, video, or XAML...

Infragistics, one of the top-notch control vendors for Silverlight, just launched, Quince , a User Experience Pattern Explorer.  I have been a fan of design patterns ever since my undergraduate days studying Christopher Alexander ’s Pattern Language...

Silverlight momentum is growing!  Three firms that do Silverlight work in the San Francisco Bay area decided to start a new Silverlight User Group in San Francisco.  This Thursday, (February 5, 2009), the kick-off meeting will be at the Microsoft...

In the blog post I just wrote , I found a peculiarity of XAML (both WPF and Silverlight) where nicely looking XAML would sometimes cause unexpected behavior.  I sent an email to the WPF team asking them to add an IgnoreWhitespace property to the...

I just ran into a problem with XAML (WPF and Silverlight) and wanted to share my solution with you.  In my Word to XAML converter application , I was noticing that sometimes extraneous spaces were being seen in Paragraph elements in WPF and TextBlock...

I have done a bit of work lately on my Word 2007 to XAML converter application to give it a bit more functionality in the following areas: Table VML Graphics Correctly handling default styles and character styles Tables (WPF) I have implemented rudimentary...

When I joined Microsoft, I was a Visual Studio user having spent my career developing, designing, and crafting software.  I could build a Windows forms application very quickly – and it had a beautiful gray background with buttons arranged in a boring...

I love the Silverlight Toolkit – it’s a great set of free Silverlight extensions that you can use in your Silverlight project.  Source code and unit tests are included: everything you’d want in an extension library.  I am playing around with...

Zack Scott just tried Microsoft Songsmith a new application from Microsoft Research that creates music to accompany your voice.  Pretty cool – and funny.

Take a look at this interesting product that has come out of Microsoft Research: Microsoft Songsmith : I haven’t tried it yet but I’d be interested in getting feedback from anyone who has.

If you smiled when you read this title, then you’re in on the secret.  We gave our son Alex, age 6 1/2 a Leapfrog Leapster 2 for Hanukkah this year and he was very excited.  Once you put the batteries in the device and turn it on, you select...

Origin Digital , an Accenture owned company, is a rapidly growing video applications service provider (VASP) that offer’s a next generation platform for combining the acquisition, transformation and delivery of a digital content delivered anywhere, in...

I like using the collections feature in Live Search Maps where I can keep collections of locations. One of the activities that I wanted to do was share a collection on my blog as an embedded map. Unfortunately this isn’t one of the out-of-the-box...

If you missed the PDC, you can now spend a day in a location near you to learn all about Azure, Windows 7, Silverlight 2, and other cutting edge topics for just $99. All attendees will get a DVD of the Windows 7 Beta. Register here . Here are the locations...

A look at the Generation 4.0 vision of data centers from Microsoft. Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision

Last year I created this menorah for Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish celebration of lights and now I’ve updated it for 2008’s celebration that starts on sundown, December 21st.  For those of you who celebrate Hanukkah, I am sharing a Silverlight menorah...

If you use AOL Mail and you want to try out a new feature of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), install the AOL Mail Accelerator .  Accelerators are IE8 enhancements that automate common tasks. If you want to build your own accelerator and share it to the...

The first project that I did when I started experimenting with Silverlight 1.0 (at that time it was called WPF/E) was an Office Ribbon UI .  It was a great learning experience and when Silverlight 2 betas started becoming available, I started to...

McCann Worldgroup is looking for a Silverlight Engineer in San Francisco. From MediaBistro.com: http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/jobview.asp?joid=85919&page=1