Mimi Chau of the Asian media center and Asia-Pacific news agency has just published a book on what it takes to build and develop the design parameters for a digital media center. She uses the huge showcase of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 as the...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight First of all I’d like to say a big Happy New Year to everybody reading, and in particular to my friends in Russia who have made my ‘Introducing Silverlight 2’ book a big success over there. С...

In my previous post, I was thoughtstreaming Ray Ozzie’s keynote. He’s just announced the name of the Web tier operating system – Windows Azure. It’s designed for cloud computing. It’s a new service based operating environment specifically designed for...

I’m here at PDC 2008 (doing a book signing today of my ‘Introducing Silverlight 2’ book, wink wink), and will try to do some blogging / thought streams live from the keynotes. Day 1 keynote is Ray Ozzie, talking about his pre-Microsoft background. One...

There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. In addition to me being there on Monday signing 'Introducing Silverlight 2', we'll all have the privelige of being able...

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: Mix09 , Silverlight It’s that wonderful time of the year again. The sun is still shining, the leaves are changing color, the Seahawks are in contention and…oh wait a minute the Seahawks probably aren...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   While Silverlight 2 was designed to be fully backwards compatible with Silverlight 1.0, there is a chance that you may have some JavaScript code that behaves differently than expected when...

If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a Deep Zoom application, it's actually very easy, and I've got the full details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/10/18/panoramic-deep-zoom...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , DeepZoom , Deep Zoom Technorati Tags: Silverlight , DeepZoom , Deep Zoom   I’ve had lots of folks asking me about how some sites (such as Hard Rock ) were able to stitch photos together to effectively make a panorama...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Mac del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Mac Silverlight is suppported on the Mac as you may well know, but not on the PPC-based versions. Occasionally we get questions from folks who have Intel-based Macs, but who cannot install...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight So, you may have seen that we’ve finally wrapped up Silverlight 2. The details are here . There’s a lot of good stuff in that announcement, and I’ll get to them in tomorrows post. But first, where...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of you nice folks who bought my Silverlight 2 book have been asking for updates and fixes to the code. Once we got RC0 out the door, I started updating the code, a process which is now finished...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Sharepoint Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Sharepoint   Alliteration actually amazes me. :) Anyway, there's a great sweet spot between Silverlight and Sharepoint. Sharepoint is a great technology that allows you to...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   I've been getting a lot of questions and confusion around why you get the following strange behavior. "I've installed the RC0 developer runtime, and whenever I hit a Beta 2 site, I...

A question I've been getting a lot since we released RC0 is this: 'When Microsoft does the RTW release, there will be a period of time where *some* of my users have Beta 2 and *some* of them have RTW. How do I ensure that each of them will get an unbroken...

Technorati Tags: Microsoft If you are fortunate enough to work for MS in its Corporate HQ, they provide a ‘bus’ called the Connector that links with many of the suburbs around Seattle, including mine. I say ‘bus’ because it is a luxury coach with power...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   In a previous blog posting I showed how you could use Silverlight as an XPS renderer, so you could view your documents. This is nice, but had the drawback in that the entire document had...

And who says Microsoft and PC's are for people in brown suits? :) http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/PDC-2008-is-cominghellip-and-I-canrsquot-wait/ These are not professional musicians, dancers etc., but a bunch of the TE's that work in my building, including...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight      Technorati Tags: Silverlight RC0 Update: So, after a lot of effort, we finally got Silverlight 2 RC0 out the door, and it's a release that we're really proud of. I won't go into a lot of detail as...

Just a quick note while I'm coming up for air :) I've had lots of questions around the release plans for Silverlight 2 and what's happening with the book (which is based on beta 2). I can't give any specifics about the SL2 release at this moment, but...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Here's another Silverlight app that I've been bursting to share with y'all. It's from the promotion site for the 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix being hosted in Singapore and sponsored by SingTel. It...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Olympics , NBC , China del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Olympics , NBC , China When the Olympics were first awarded to Beijing, I have to admit that I was very skeptical. But I've been fortunate enough to spend a lot of time...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight       Technorati Tags: Silverlight        BuzzNet Tags: Silverlight I've adapted David Anson's XPS Viewer for Silverlight sample to allow you to read the first 3 chapters...

  Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of folks have been asking me for a TOC for the Silverlight 2 book, so here it is. The book is divided into 2 parts (Introducing Silverlight 2, and Programming Silverlight 2). Note...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight After the book was published, Microsoft issued an update to Beta 2 with some bug fixes etc. In addition, these came with a number of updated tools and VS plug-ins that revved up the Project version...