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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:18 PM

Halo3 HD videos on silverlight

The new high definition live action videos for Halo3 are available in Silverlight at http://halo3.msn.com/videoshd.aspx . My observations: Check the video playback quality ... wow!! The player (transports, chapters, closed captions, etc).. looks like
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Monday, August 27, 2007 10:53 PM

firefox 'Warning: Unresponsive Script' and Silverlight 1.0 ..

A few customers developing in 1.0 have seldomly seen the 'unresponsive script' warning in firefox... They see it less often in IE, but if you create a run-away thread it can be reproduced in IE and it shows it as "Stop running this Script" .. .. "your
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:38 AM

VS Tip of the day blog...

Am I the last one to find this really useful blog with lotsa good VS tips? Try your VS knowledge on it.. How many of the tips did you know?? I knew about 60% ... but did not know of some really juicy ones (like swapping words via Ctrl-Shift-T .. . if
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:33 PM

Cider part3: Design-time extensibility.

We have walked through the cider features, we have discussed its integration with Blend and the sweet spots for each tool ... to most users that is plenty, but there is a side to Cider that eventhough you might not see a lot is very important for the
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:25 PM

Cider Part2: building a WPF app using Cider and Expression Blend..

In my earlier post I walked through my favorite Cider beta2 features. You might have noticed that I focused on 'developer' features like laying out controls, wiring up events, and XAML editing. I skipped other 'designer' tasks (like styling, templating,
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:19 PM

A screencast on what's new on WPF Designer "Cider" beta2...

A belated follow-up to an earlier post about Cider... Will try for a brief series that discusses: What's new in Beta2 ... ( lotsa new features, check details below ) How to build a WPF app using Cider AND Blend ... ( sweet spots for each tool, brief demo
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:08 PM

Improving and measuring silverlight performance...

Seema shares some of her lessons learned towards minimizing CPU usage in silverlight .. http://blogs.msdn.com/seema/archive/2007/08/09/silverlight-a-few-thoughts-on-minimizing-cpu-usage.aspx I can vouch first hand for her first two as big winners... There
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:05 AM

MLB on silverlight..

As usual I am late -- or did not intent to do it at all -- breaking news on silverlight and in this case the MLB deployment.. ( infoworld , zdnet ) Changed my mind to share my point of view on two questions I have heard a bit this week.. why did they
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