del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight       Technorati Tags: Silverlight   My Silverlight 2 book is finally available! Amazon's page for this book is a little confusing, so I thought I'd clear some stuff up :) Despite the title,...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight We're just wrapping up the final details for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. It should be available to download very very soon, so keep your eye on http://www.silverlight.net for details. There's lots of...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight If you attended MIX08 you would have had a free sample copy of my Silverlight 2 book in the attendee bag. The book has 3 chapters, one on XAML, one on Silverlight 2 in Visual Studio and one on...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Search , Japan , Innovation Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Search , Japan , Innovation I spend a lot of time and miles evangelizing Silverlight, and sometimes it can be painful to see the amazing things that are being done...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight     del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight While many among you are focusing more on Silverlight 2, I still strongly recommend that you look at Silverlight 1 for your development needs. If you weren't at MIX, there's...

If you happen to be hanging out in Eilat, Israel tomorrow, I'm speaking on 'Go Gold With Silverlight' tomorrow afternoon at 2PM local time. I'll be going into detail on what Silverlight is, and where it fits in with Microsoft's overall UX strategy. I...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight Working for Microsoft is something that I'd recommend to anyone that is interested in technology. I work with the Developer Platform Evangelism team, which, if you're a geek like me, is a great...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Dynamic Silverlight , IronRuby      del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Dynamic Silverlight , IronRuby Silverlight's support of Dynamic Languages is really cool, but, as there is no template in Visual Studio...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight Following lots of requests from folks inside MS, I wrote this paper as a very simple guide to determine installation metrics. No reason why it shouldn't see light of day, so share and enjoy! ...

DeepZoom with the MultiScaleImage control Technorati Tags: Silverlight , MIX08 , Deep Zoom del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , MIX08 , Deep Zoom DeepZoom is a new technology which has been added to Silverlight 2 which gives you a new and unique way of managing...

For those of you who were at MIX this week, you would have received a nice free sample copy of my "Introducing Silverlight 2: First Look" book. This sample has 3 chapters from the finished book, giving you a tour of XAML, as well as an introduction...

If you're reading Introducing Silverlight and are having some trouble with the code in Chapter 8 for the tracking textblocks sample, there's a missing line of code that defines a global variable. Here's the full C# code for the TextBlocks sample: 1: using...

Technorati Tags: MIX07 , MIX08 del.icio.us Tags: MIX07 , MIX08 The MIX08 Site is now online and registration for the hottest conference of the year is open. MIX tends to sell out very quickly, so be sure to register early! [Early bird registration gets...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight On November 29, Microsoft will be hosting a free training event in Silverlight 1.0 at building 33 in the Redmond campus. This is a pretty cool building in fact -- it hosts lots of high profile...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight MIX 08 is coming soon to a desert near you. There's some wonderful new technologies in the pipeline, and some wonderful new stuff in technologies that you are probably already familiar with. Besides...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight I'm happy to say that the UX Guidelines for Silverlight installations are now available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F487DF43-1AFB-4F76-82C8-BB5ACBFFBA1B&displaylang...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight My First Silverlight book: Introducing Silverlight 1.0 is now available. I have to say that I am very proud of this book, and I think it is the best book that I have written. It goes through Silverlight...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You should really take a look at Justif-Josef Angel's blog, where he presents some brilliant work that he has done with Silverlight, in particular his work on supporting Right-To-Left languages...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You may be using the Silverlight downloader object to download content such as fonts but you may have noticed that every page needs to download the resources seperately, making for poor UX. Well...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight I've been getting lots of questions on how to check to see if Silverlight is already installed. This is actually very easy to do, but has somehow slipped through the cracks (I even missed it when...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight Here's a really cool greeting card, built in Silverlight for the Chinese Moon Festival, with the theme 'let there be light'. It shows the nice things that are possible when you blend Silverlight...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , JPop Technorati Tags: Silverlight , JPop I'm currently in Tokyo for ReMIX Tokyo, and have seen some amazing stuff. Last night, a singer, Ai Takekawa, who is new to the music scene played a concert at our venue. She was...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight In the last Episode, you looked into Getting Started with Silverlight where you had a simple XAML document containing a TextBlock that you then manipulated in code. XAML is at the heart of Silverlight...

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's , I'm going to take this from...

Photosynth is an amazing new technology that allows you to view photos and scenes in an interactive three dimensional space. Microsoft software takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, interpolates the similarities between them and constructs...