August 2007 - Posts
This demonstration really shows the advantages of Silverlight over plain-ole DHTML. It provides a very smooth experience when zooming and panning by leveraging Silverlight capabilities. Read about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2007/08/21/silverlight-1-1-virtualearth-viewer.aspx
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Visual Studio 2008 (formerly codename "Orcas") has been in Beta 2 for a month or so. I have been spending a good amount of time with it. It is great to have the ability to target multiple versions (.NET Framework 2.0 and.NET Framework 3.5) of the .NET
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In my last blog post , I listed a pointer to a walkthrough to help learn Silverlight and Expression Blend located here . The walkthrough is for Silverlight 1.0, with the code in JavaScript. If you have not had a chance to play with Silverlight or Expression
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I attended HostingCon as a presenter and spent a lot of times speaking with hosting customers in the Microsoft booth. HostingCon was held at the Navy Pier in Chicago. Chicago is a fun city to visit. The Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was pretty cool---it
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