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Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event - Download the Videos
Via Mithun Dhar Kickoff | Mithun Dhar & Mark Hindsbo | Download Keynote | Scott Guthrie | Download Silverlight Key Scenarios & Features | Tim Heuer | Download Expression 3 Overview | Adam Kinney | Download Sketch Flow | Janete Perez | Download Read More...
dezineforce Proof of Concept Interview
Following on from my post yesterday about the dezineforce proof of concept, I spent a little more time with Peter Williams (dezineforce), Neil Kidd (Microsoft) and Josh Twist (Microsoft) quizzing them on various aspects of the project… 1. Tell me a little Read More...
A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) with a company called dezineforce who offer a unique capability – a cloud-based engineering design service . Coming from an engineering background myself, I found Read More...
Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing
Microsoft Expression Web includes the capability to render web pages using a variety of different rendering engines. Importantly it includes the IE6 rendering engine so you can render pages in both IE6 and IE7 or IE8 on the same machine. We’ve now made Read More...
Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event Streamed Live
On 17th September there’s a full day of Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 goodness coming live from Seattle. The Firestarter event being held in the Microsoft Conference Centre will also be streamed live so as many people as possible can attend. There’s a Read More...
Silverlight / Expression UK Launch Videos
MikeT and I were both at the recent UK Launch of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 and, amongst other things, were filming like it was going out of fashion. My job was simple – capture the screen. Only trouble was tapes last 60mins for a 3+ hour event so Read More...
Expression 3 Launched
Yesterday I was at the UK Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 launch event where we had the official launch announcement for Expression 3. You can find out more on the Expression blog and read about the product details and download trials at the Expression home Read More...
Expression Design Resources
Following on from my post about the Expression family , I said I’d follow up with some more details on Expression Design. Someone commented on my other post that Expression Design is “too basic” and I suppose for many people that will be a fair criticism. Read More...
Microsoft Expression 1..2..3
Blend, Encoder, Web, Design, Media, Studio – it’s easy to get confused by the plethora of Expression family products but given we’re nearing another release I thought it might be worth a few posts to try and to try and simplify things as well as provide Read More...
Demos - Catching Up on Rich Clients Part 1
Rich Client Sample Sites http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/   (Desktop Twitter Client – it’s been renamed from Chirp to Blu) http://www.photosuru.com/ (Desktop Photo browsing / sharing application) http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/ Read More...
Today’s Event – Catching Up on Rich Clients
Thanks to everyone who turned up for a very busy event today at Cardinal Place. The slides are now available on SlideShare and the originals will be on the MSDN Events Website in a few days. Catching up on Rich Clients Part 1 of 2 View more presentations Read More...
Code Competitions
I’m a huge sceptic when it comes to code competitions – perhaps Terrarium has left a permanent impression on me – I think they tend to promise much yet offer little. It’s an easy answer to a difficult problem. The barrier to entry is usually too high Read More...
Creating 3D Models for WPF
I’ve had an opportunity recently to play around with WPF’s 3D capabilities to try and recreate part of the Tesco product viewer demo at PDC08 . Of course one of the first hurdles is actually having some sort of 3D model to play with (once you get bored Read More...
Expression Encoder SL 2 MediaPlayer Templates and SL Streaming
I’ve just been scratching my head wondering why I can’t publish from Expression Encoder 2 to Silverlight Streaming using one of the new SL 2 media player templates. The simple answer being that the “Publish to Silverlight Streaming” plug-in doesn’t yet Read More...
MIX09 Special Offer - 40% Discount
That's right, there's a 40% discount available for the first 200 registrations using RSVP code MIXspecial1 . Simply visit the registration page , click on "Register for the event using an RSVP Code" and, well you can figure out the rest... Even Read More...
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