May 2007 - Posts
An interesting development occurred yesterday. Facebook, 20+ million members, decided to open up their doors and create a platform for SaaS. In an excerpt from a Fortune article: "We want to make Facebook into something of an operating system so you can
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I beat my head against the wall for quite some time on this one. Silverlight is great, but what do you do when you need to capture some kind of user input? You have a couple of choices, you can either overlay HTML controls on top of your SliverLight control
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Here is an awesome collection of Silverlight links thanks to Doug Turnure, Developer Evangelist here in the Southeast. Both of us have been spending quite a bit of time learning Silverlight and plan to put together a 1/2-1 day session that will be an
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I had a couple of folks reach out to me in regards to my last post. Apparently they were having problems removing the Guidance Automation Toolkit and/or the Guidance Automation Extensions. If you look at the installation instructions very carefully, there
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Here is the latest version of the Smart Client Software Factory . If you have implemented SCSF or CAB, I would highly suggset you taking a look at this update. It will align very well to some things that are coming out in the future. While I cant blog
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On May 18th we announced an exciting new tool designed to put Silverlight creation in the hands of everyday folks who want to create exciting interactive interfaces and who want to express themselves on the web. So what is this tool? Announcing Popfly
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The Weather Channel just created a fantastic Vista gadget that provides your local weather and shows you a quick view into what the weather will look like over the next few days. Even better, it links to the local radar that is based on Virtual Earth!
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So if you didnt go to Mix07, you can still see all of the content. We have posted videos and most of the powerpoints up on the Mix website. http://sessions.visitmix.com/ I am still looking to get a good central location to get the demos. Let me know if
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Did you see the Silverlight Airline Demo at Mix? Wish that you had seen it? Well you can download it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/05/01/the-web-just-got-even-better-silverlight-announced-at-mix07.aspx
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It used to be called WPF/e, and now its Silverlight! There are so may good things about Silverlight, included some new funcationality. Silverlight 1.1 now supports the CLR running on all supported platforms. That means you can write C# and VB.Net Silverlight
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