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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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29 July 2007
A Guide to the Newly-Released Developer Updates
Though I managed to sneak away for some vacation time this week, it's clearly been a busy time for the product teams. Here's a summary of the recently-released betas and updates with links for more information: Silverlight Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate Read More...
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19 July 2007
Congratulations to Jesse Liberty
Not sure how I missed this news until now, but Joe Stagner mentions that Jesse Liberty , noted author, speaker, and technologist, has joined Microsoft! Jesse is now a Senior Program Manager on the Silverlight development team. It turns out Jesse announced Read More...
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17 July 2007
Cambridge Python Meetup - Silverlight, Python, and the DLR
I'll be speaking with the Cambridge Python Meetup Group this Wednesday (July 18th) evening. Join us in Cambridge for discussion and demonstrations of Silverlight, the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and, of course, how Python ties into this brave new world. Read More...
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29 June 2007
Index of Silverlight Games (Most with Source)
In my experience, many corporate developers by day are actually gamers by night (after putting the kids in bed, of course.) So when an interesting technology like Silverlight comes along, a good way to learn what it can do is to see gaming concepts applied, Read More...
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21 June 2007
Easy to Digest Tutorials for Blend and Silverlight
[Via Dave Campbell - a blog you should read if you're into Silverlight.] Just launched is the beta of a great (Silverlight-based) site by Celso Gomes with some simple to use tutorials for Blend & Silverlight: http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ Currently, Read More...
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19 June 2007
Silverlight Browser Add-In for Reflector
Lutz Roeder's Reflector keeps getting more useful. There's now a Silverlight-related add-in for Reflector called "Silverlight Browser" . Silverlight Browser is very handy for "how'd they do that?" developer use. Open Reflector, choose File->Open Silverlight Read More...
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