Jaime Rodriguez
On Windows 8, Windows Phone and HTML5
This is not déjà vu(or a joke) -- we are finally executing on the training event we...
Date: 03/07/2013
On December 13 and 14th, Microsoft and the Big Nerd Ranch team are having a two day training on...
Date: 11/09/2012
This event has been post-poned to a soon to be announced date (it will be end of January). Apologies...
Date: 11/09/2012
This coming Thursday (6/14) members of the Windows User Experience team are delivering an...
Date: 06/12/2012
I have blogged before about the process to get a Windows 8 developer token early so you can reserve...
Date: 06/08/2012
A few colleague evangelists are doing a series on MSDN Webcasts on building Windows 8 Metro style...
Date: 05/10/2012
Two weeks ago, we announced an all day training for those Building metro style apps with C++.. Event...
Date: 05/07/2012
Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event...
Date: 04/23/2012
Tuesday, the Windows Store blog announced that in the next significant Windows 8 preview release...
Date: 04/19/2012
[I am traveling today, so it might be a one-off due to low band-width at the hotel, but in...
Date: 03/08/2012
Yesterday, Microsoft released the Beta Ad SDK for Windows 8. This is an update to the SDK released...
Date: 03/08/2012
it has been a long while since I last blogged. Why? I have immersed myself into the Windows 8 Metro...
Date: 03/01/2012
Last week we did a video on background agents for the Inside Windows Phone show.. If you want to go...
Date: 08/29/2011
With the Windows Phone (codenamed) Mango beta release, the Windows Phone team thrived to have great...
Date: 06/10/2011
I hope I am not the only person who did not know this (apologies if that is the case)....
Date: 06/07/2011
In my last post, I teased that system tray in Mango is now customizable and data binding friendly...
Date: 06/04/2011
A missing feature from Windows phone 7.0 was the ability to set the Background and Foreground color...
Date: 06/03/2011
if you try using RichTextBox in the recently released Mango Beta tools, you might notice the control...
Date: 06/01/2011
Thanks to those that attended our all-day Mobile Day event in...
Date: 05/30/2011
With all the new coming features in Mango, I had to bring the show back.. Every Friday expect...
Date: 05/27/2011
The past few days have been very exciting for Windows Phone developers: The Microsoft partnership...
Date: 02/17/2011
I received a few questions about this post, and the nodo bits that were released last week, some of...
Date: 02/10/2011
Two people asked on this post about communication between HTML and Silverlight, so I thought I would...
Date: 02/07/2011
If you have a Windows Phone application that hosts the WebBrowser control and allows or encourages...
Date: 02/04/2011
Yesterday, Kevin Marshall wrote a blog post with a good developer tip: to code defensively for...
Date: 12/07/2010
I am writing this tiny demo app, that has a TextBox data bound to a ViewModel. I want the...
Date: 12/05/2010
Yesterday I did a dry-run of my performance talk for today’s Silverlight fire starter. Conclusion...
Date: 12/02/2010
For those of us who have multiple machines or re-install often and don’t like to download...
Date: 11/27/2010
As you know, Silverlight does not have native support for decoding gif images. That is downer, but...
Date: 11/23/2010
Kevan Hutson (or some one in his team) created this great ‘aggregation’ of reviews of...
Date: 11/15/2010
Yesterday, I saw a few posts, tweets and personal emails from smart, professional developers who are...
Date: 11/12/2010
A few tips for those using GeoCoordinateWatcher in Windows Phone 7. The data: GeoCoordinateWatcher...
Date: 11/11/2010
I have uploaded my slides and demos from my teched sessions. Thanks for attending and...
Date: 11/11/2010
On my way to TechEd Europe today, and just found out there is a room available to host a Windows...
Date: 11/05/2010
For Silverlight applications, Windows Phone does a good job at abstracting the keyboard from the...
Date: 11/05/2010
Monday’s blog post on running under screen lock generated a couple of questions around media...
Date: 11/03/2010
Today, David Anson announced the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone ...
Date: 11/02/2010
Last week, Microsoft published new Application content policies for Windows Phone 7 Apps. One of the...
Date: 11/01/2010
The Windows Phone Marketpalce is upon us.. My apps are done and there are many, many apps getting...
Date: 10/17/2010
Want to learn Windows Phone 7??? Booya!! Check out the line-up of events that our rocking...
Date: 09/24/2010
Today, we are announcing a new Channel 9 show dedicated to Developing Windows Phone...
Date: 09/03/2010
I will be doing a full-day pre-conference at TechEd EMEA covering Windows Phone 7 .. ...
Date: 08/20/2010
Windows Phone is getting very impressive reviews, and all of them mention the great, innovative user...
Date: 08/13/2010
Shane Guillet has been working on Silverlight performance since way back when it was called WPF/E......
Date: 08/06/2010
Congratulations to the WPF team in shipping the WPF ribbon control… You can download it, from:...
Date: 08/04/2010
This week, MS learning did the first delivery of our Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart training. The...
Date: 07/23/2010
To install the Windows Phone Developer Tools beta, you will first need to uninstall the older CTP...
Date: 07/13/2010
There were a good number of breaking changes and new features introduced in the “beta”...
Date: 06/28/2010
Today at Internet Week New York we are launching Expression Studio 4. This new version is shipping...
Date: 06/07/2010
I had two long flights this week and I caught up with all my reading of internal Windows Phone...
Date: 05/07/2010