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26 May 2009
Special geekSpeak on Developing Silverlight Games on May 27th
The Northeast’s very own Andy Beaulieu (Silverlight guru, MVP, CNY .NET UG Lead , etc.) is connecting with Jim O’Neil and Glen Gordon to share details about developing games with Silverlight! This episode in the MSDN geekSpeak series is May, 27th ( tomorrow Read More...
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14 May 2009
XAMLFest Boston 5/27 – 5/28… and Online
XAMLFest events are a great (and free) way to learn about Silverlight and WPF through a combination of presentations and instructor-led hands-on lab work.  XAMLFest Boston is coming to the NERD facility (One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA) on May Read More...
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16 April 2009
DeepZoomPix Technology Demo
Released today, DeepZoomPix is an application that showcases a number of different technologies, including Windows Azure , Silverlight , Deep Zoom , and Expression . It demonstrates using Deep Zoom to process images, Windows Azure to store and distribute Read More...
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28 January 2009
XamlFests Return in February
In December, I blogged about XamlFest , a free event in Waltham, MA that gave attendees a chance to learn WPF and Silverlight via instructor led hands-on labs.  That quickly filled up, and so have others, so the ISV Developer team is offering additional Read More...
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11 November 2008
XamlFest Boston: Come As You Are, Leave Xamlized
Are you excited about the WPF but concerned about the learning curve?  Have you seen Silverlight but don’t know where to get started?  Or are you curious about how tools like Visual Studio and Expression Blend help designers and developers Read More...
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21 July 2008
John Papa Speaking with Tech Valley and New Hampshire User Groups This Week
John Papa (MSDN columnist, MVP, and INETA speaker) will be visiting the Northeast area and speaking on Silverlight with the Tech Valley .NET and New Hampshire .NET user groups: Tech Valley NY .NET July 22nd, 6:30 - 9:00 PM Albany, NY New Hampshire .NET Read More...
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05 May 2008
Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator
Many people have been using Silverlight to create games for the web, but until now, you've had to be a programmer to do it. Just released on the Popfly site is alpha of the new Popfly Game Creator feature, which provides a great way to create and share Read More...
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30 April 2008
Silverlight 2.0 and RIA Development Article Series
Our very own Bob Familiar has been cruising the seas of Silverlight and has recently posted a very nice four-article series on using Silverlight 2.0 to develop RIAs (Rich Internet Applications): This series of articles takes a look at the current state Read More...
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14 March 2008
Summary of MIX '08 Highlights
It's been a busy week (getting ready for the 2008 Launch event in Boston next week), but I have a moment to share details from my trip to MIX '08 last week. It was my first MIX, and incredibly, my first visit to Las Vegas! Not a lot of free time to absorb Read More...
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14 January 2008
Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter Now Online
Silverlight Fire Starter was a one-day event held in Redmond late last year to cover a wide range of Silverlight topics. Now you can access the same content for the hard-to-argue-with price of free: www.visitmix.com/University/silverlight/firestarter/ Read More...
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09 December 2007
Got Tech Posters?
Have a blank wall (and access to your company's color printer)? There are plenty of technology posters and charts for developers available on MSDN. I didn't realize just how many until I searched for "poster" on MSDN downloads . Here's a list of the more Read More...
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06 September 2007
Silverlight Announcements - 1.0 Live, Linux support
Some fantastic news out this week. Silverlight 1.0 is now live! If that weren't enough, we've announced a formal partnership with Novell to bring Silverlight to Linux distributions via the project known as Moonlight . There's no point in adding more detail Read More...
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28 August 2007
IronPython and Silverlight Resources
This is a long-overdue follow-up to my visit with the Cambridge Python Meetup Group . I had a great time speaking with the group about Silverlight, IronPython and dynamic languages. Here are the resources I showed or that we discussed during the session: Read More...
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22 August 2007
Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow - September Edition!
We're at it again! My colleague Bob and I are heading out for round three of our Roadshow. It (and we) will run from September 10th through the 20th, sweeping through the following cities, leaving a wake of toppled water glasses and technical enlightenment Read More...
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30 July 2007
Controls and Control Libraries for Silverlight
Though the jury is still out on what controls we'll see in or alongside Silverlight 1.1 when it's released, there are a number of reusable controls and libraries emerging to help make development more efficient and familiar to developers used to WinForms Read More...
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