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14 September 2009
Feedback Req: Do you need to know the list of released runtime build numbers?
Hi All, I've noticed a few occasions where developers have wanted to know what Version of Silverlight is installed on the end users computer when they arrive at a site. There are a number of ways you can approach that question that will yield a response, Read More...
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22 August 2009
A tip on learning Silverlight. Throw away your code
You can stare at that blinking cursor inside Visual Studio all you want, it’s not going to give you an immediate insight into how you should architect your Silverlight solution so that it can be reusable and scale. It’s not that you’re an idiot or aren’t Read More...
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07 August 2009
Reality Check: How did you adopt Silverlight?
As most would imagine, here at Microsoft we are constantly researching various ways folks adopt Silverlight and have quite a large amount of notes on the subject. I however love the old, “Why not just ask them?” approach, so I’d be curious to see how Read More...
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01 August 2009
Thank you Silverlight Australia.
It’s now 2:25 AM here in Seattle, and I’m of course Jet Lagged with a head cold. I figured what a perfect time to update my blog with a big thank you to all who turned out to see me in my Australia wide tour. I met a whole bunch of you folks from all Read More...
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12 July 2009
The ripple effects of Silverlight.
I have been away from Australia for about a a year now, and I came home the other night and noticed the intersection outside my old house has changed significantly. I thought wow, progress is a beast that never rests. Taped to one of the stop light poles Read More...
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24 April 2009
The back-story about the brand new Silverlight Blog design & development.
I’ve just uploaded one of the first revisions of the new blog design to team.silverlighet.net . It’s a more focused design this time and one in which i had the luxury of spending more time on than the one before. In this post I’ll walk through some of Read More...
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09 April 2009
Peter Elst Interviews me on Silverlight 3
I rarely do interviews or podcasts as typically I find them goofy, and I despite my blogging/twitter prowess, am quite a shy guy. That being said, I find value in Peter and openly respect his approach to technology as whilst he obviously prefers Flash Read More...
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07 April 2009
Sports can be competitive. Who knew! :)
Steve just did a great post on how well we’re doing in the sporting scene , and it’s worth checking out over at the team.silverlight.net blog. It does provide some basic common sense rebuttals to what MLB.Tv folks stated today in the CNET article. If Read More...
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23 March 2009
What makes Silverlight better than JavaScript/CSS/HTML?
Damian Edwards stayed at my house a week leading up to MIX09 and he’s had an amazing impact on our product teams whilst he stayed. One question he did provoke my way was what makes Silverlight better than JavaScript/HTML (forgot the actual wording but Read More...
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10 March 2009
Dear Silverlight, where’s my view source?
Chris Messina is quoted as saying the following: There’s been a long history of innovation on the web founded in open access to the underlying source code that first websites, then later interactive web applications, were built on. The facility of having Read More...
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26 January 2009
Replaced my MSDN Graphic Header with Silverlight
When you create an MSDN blog here at Microsoft you’re pretty much given very little access to it, especially if you want to customize it. I’ve managed to basically hack my way around this through both CSS and JavaScript manipulation. Tonight, I decided Read More...
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25 January 2009
I hate it when a designer touches XAML..
I’ve meet with a few die-hard Silverlight developers in my time and some feedback I get at times is how designers produce bad XAML. “..I hate it when a designer touches XAML..” – oh? why? My first thought was, “bad XAML?” how on earth can a designer produce Read More...
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23 January 2009
Egads… it’s a Silverlight Spy!
When I’m working in Silverlight I typically like most developers heavily rely on the breakpoint/debug workflow. Although this is extremely powerful, I at times need to inspect what’s been loaded in a more hierarchical manner to ensure my various UIElements Read More...
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17 January 2009
Silverlight is all over The Moment..
CNN CNN is inviting people witnessing “The Moment” to take part in a special iReport assignment by e-mailing their pictures to themoment@CNN.com . The photos will post immediately to iReport.com, CNN’s user-generated news community, and shortly after Read More...
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14 January 2009
Scott, why should I use Deep Zoom?
I’ve been asked this a thousand times and i often give a thousand different answers, as typically each time you ask me, I think of something new to do with it and respond. Deep Zoom is one of this fascinating differentiators we put into Silverlight that Read More...
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