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One of the useful controls to use when creating a Windows Store app for Windows 8 is the GridView which can use a VariableSizeWrapGrid to support item templates of varying size.  Using this in conjunction with an DataTemplateSelector makes it possible...

One of the great features of Windows 8 Metro Applications is the Snapped View where app developers create a 320px wide view of their app.  When the user snaps their app to the left or the right of the screen they can continue using their primary...

A few days ago I got a notice over my phone that an update was ready to be installed and I should connect it to my computer.  Mango had arrived for my Dell Venue Pro on T-Mobile’s network.  I connected my phone to my computer and proceeded to...

This past week I had a great time teaching my 9-year-old son Alex and 9 of his friends computer programming in my home.  I used Kodu Game Lab and Small Basic , two free tools created for kids to learn programming. I wrote a series of blog posts about...

Next week, the Fairfax Computer Camp will open in my home.  As I work from home, I have a bit of flexibility in scheduling my working hours, so I’m attempting an exciting new challenge – how to teach my son Alex computer programming in a fun environment...

There is a growing library of content on the internet in SVG, especially with sites like The Noun Project . With a Windows Phone project that I am working on I wanted to use a graphic from the Noun Project. To do this I needed to convert the SVG file...

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After more than a month of waiting, I am the proud owner of a new Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone .  As a Microsoft employee I had my choice on phones and carriers and I wanted to share the reasoning behind my choice. The T-Mobile network has great...

Subscribe to this Silverlight Jobs Feed . Inviso builds world class software solutions specializing in business intelligence, web applications, and service oriented solutions.  Inviso works with a steady stream of new Microsoft technologies and prides...

I just posted an update to the code I wrote almost a year ago for showing thumbnail images of a video while scrubbing (moving the play slider) in Silverlight.  This is similar to the experience that you get when scrubbing on Netflix Watch Instantly...

My wife Liz has a Dell Studio laptop with an integrated webcam.  The computer originally came with Windows Vista and I upgraded it to Windows 7 when it came out.  The upgrade went well, although one of the applications that came with the laptop...

This person will be the pivotal person in the development and design of the "new" GUI. The current environment is PowerBuilder and they are asking this person to be the go to person for the new web based application. They require a strong coder...

I have just heard that Netflix has two job openings for Silverlight Architect/Engineers in Los Gatos, California.  As a Netflix subscriber, I use the Silverlight-based Watch Instantly feature on my computer and on my Windows Phone 7 device. ...

One of the great partners that I have worked with on the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework  (MSAF) has been PreEmptive Solutions.  For Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is partnering with PreEmptive to provide application reporting for phone...

There is a new Capability Detection tool in the Windows Phone Developer Tools October update that you can run to determine the capabilities of a DLL or Xap files.  Here is a post build step that I added to a WP7 project to list the capabilities that...

Tomorrow, October 26, 2010, I will be at the Sprint Developer Conference in Santa Clara, California, where I will be giving a talk about Windows Phone 7 and running a coding session on developing Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7.  We...

One of my customers has been using the Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework player for their Business-to-Business media sharing portal and wanted to add a download progress bar behind the scrub bar.  I was able to show them how to do this with a...

This weekend, in preparation for today’s Windows Phone 7 launch , we released, the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework 1.4.7 .  We fixed a few bugs and added tracking for the Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 2.2 now available for both...

What San Francisco Silverlight User Group Meeting When Thursday 10/14/2010 7:00 PM Where Golden Gate North Conference Room Microsoft Corporation 835 Market Street Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94930 Who Navin Prasad, Netflix: Designing for Windows Phone...

Earlier this week, I explained how you could easily add an Internet Explorer 9 pinned site mode to your website so that your site behaves like a first-class application when running on Windows Vista or Windows 7. I also explained how you might use a Google...

Position: UX Integration Developer   Overview: The successful candidate will work closely with the interaction design team to implement their vision of the user interface in our applications, and will engage in prototyping exercises to test the workflow...

So you’ve taken the five minutes to add an Internet Explorer 9 Site Mode for your website so that it has a great Windows experience ( see blog post here ).  Now you want to track if your visitors are pinning your site – this would be a major indication...

Now that the beta of Internet Explorer 9 is out (you can download it from here ), there are new opportunities to make your website act like an application in Windows.  One of the easy things that you can do is to create site mode when your users...

Along with the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools and the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework 1.46 today, Microsoft also released the Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone .  The SDK consists of a custom control AdControl that...

We have just released on CodePlex the latest version of the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework to support the final release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools .  You can read the release notes here .  New Features for Windows Phone...