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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:59 AM

Silverlight and Web Analytics – the Next Generation

  Ever since I wrote about Silverlight and Web Analytics (and PDF here ) with Silverlight 1, I have been meaning to update the document and guidance for Silverlight 2 and now Silverlight 3.  There are some new features in Silverlight 3 and Expression
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:15 PM

Silverlight, Video, and SketchFlow at MGFest in Austin Next Week

Next week I will be teaching two full-day workshops at the Motion Graphics Festival in Austin, Texas.  If you want to learn about Silverlight and Video Distribution and Encoding, then register for the Motion Graphics Festival today. Introduction
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:02 PM

Artist Explorer – a Silverlight 2 Mashup

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mash-up applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 5 Comments
Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:45 PM

Silverlight and Expression Blend for E-Learning Applications

One of my publishing customers is going to start building a series of E-Learning application in Silverlight and we will be starting off with a two-day LiveMeeting web conference workshop on February 25 and 27 (9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT).  On the second
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Monday, January 19, 2009 12:35 PM

Deep Discounts on Microsoft Expression until January 31

When I joined Microsoft, I was a Visual Studio user having spent my career developing, designing, and crafting software.  I could build a Windows forms application very quickly – and it had a beautiful gray background with buttons arranged in a boring
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:05 AM

How to Teach Yourself Expression Blend

So you’re an interactive designer or developer and you have been hearing about Silverlight.  Now you want to teach yourself how to use the design tool for creating Silverlight applications, Expression Blend.  Where do you go?  http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc136535.aspx#ExpressionBlendTrainingVideos
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:55 PM

Silverlight Jobs Feed

It seems like there’s real interest in freelance designers who are proficient in Silverlight and Expression Blend.  In the past week, two of my customers came to me asking where to find freelance resources.  I just posted one such opening for
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:38 PM

Los Angeles-Based Freelance Silverlight Designer Needed

A partner of mine, eblizz in Los Angeles is working on a new Silverlight-based site and needs a freelance designer fluent in Silverlight and Expression Blend: We need an experienced Silverlight designer for freelance work in December and maybe January.
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 4 Comments
Friday, September 26, 2008 10:37 AM

Updating Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Demos to RC0

In preparation for the upcoming release of Silverlight 2, we have released Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) to developers to start the process of updating their code.  Scott Guthrie just wrote about this in his blog yesterday. All of the details,
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 5 Comments
Friday, September 19, 2008 4:47 PM

Updated Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch to Silverlight 2

One of the fun Silverlight 1 applications that I built over the past year was Ball Watch's Trainmaster Cannonball ( http://xmldocs.net/ball ).  After seeing an ad in Wired magazine, I contacted the manufacturer with an idea and was sent a 2.93 MB
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 3 Comments
Monday, September 15, 2008 9:08 PM

Creating a Silverlight 2 CLR object for Photobucket's API

Over the past few months, I have been working on a Silverlight kit for Photobucket's API .  I have used this sample to demonstrate a few things: How to build an API kit for a REST Library How to adapt existing .Net code to Silverlight (OAuth Library)
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:27 AM

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008

Next week I will be in New York City meeting customers and I will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop  at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. 
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 5 Comments
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:44 AM

Talking About Expression Blend at SDForum Windows SIG in Mtn. View 8/28/2008

I love using Expression Blend.  With both a design education (architecture) and a career in software development, I've become somewhat of an expert on using Microsoft's Expression Blend for designing WPF and Silverlight user experiences.  Over
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Monday, August 18, 2008 9:27 PM

Vote for my SxSW 2009 Panels

If you have any interest in Expression Blend or how I made these journals , you should vote for the two panels that I've submitted for the South by Southwest (SxSW) 2009 interactive festival : Extreme Expression Blend for Silverlight Designers - as many
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 2 Comments
Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:16 PM

Beauty with Silverlight

I created something cool that I'd like to share with you.  Imagine if your company had a beautiful luxury product that had intricate workings and you wanted to show how it worked as well as have a way for the product's owners and fans to show it
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 17 Comments
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