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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:14 AM

Back from Vacation

Yesterday I came back from a vacation (see Bing Map ) to Taos, New Mexico and Durango, Colorado with stops in Albuquerque, Silverton Colorado, and Mesa Verde National Park. I took my new Canon T1i digital SLR with me and loved using it – taking over 1,000
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Monday, June 15, 2009 11:47 AM

New York Times Silverlight Kit version 1.0.7 Released

We have just released a new version of the New York Times Silverlight Kit , adding better documentation to the help file and new CLR objects for accessing the Campaign Finance APIs.  We’ve also updated the WPF Kit as well.  New Campaign Finance
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:46 PM

Best Buy’s Keith Burtis Interviews Me

Keith Burtis from Best Buy just posted an interview that I did with him last week.  We covered everything from evangelism, to Silverlight, to career advice in about 26 minutes.  Best Buy is doing some very exciting things with their Remix APIs
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:41 PM

Silverlight Kit Webinars

Today went well.  I delivered three LiveMeeting presentation on Silverlight Kits, Silverlight libraries that facilitate data access to web services, with minimal technical difficulties.  If you missed the live presentations, then you can catch
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Friday, June 05, 2009 2:09 PM

SFO Silverlight User Group Next Meeting on 6/11/2009

On Thursday, June 11, we will be hosting at the San Francisco Microsoft Office a second meeting of the San Francisco Silverlight User Group .  We are having a Silverlight Showcase where community members can show off their Silverlight applications. 
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:26 PM

Virtual Event: Microsoft Silverlight Kits 6/9/2009

On June 9, 2009, I will be presenting a series of free web meetings about Silverlight Kits that I have been working on: 9:00 AM PDT: The MySpace Silverlight Kit 11:00 AM PDT: The New York Times Silverlight Kit 1:00 PM PDT: Building a Silverlight Kit for
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 3 Comments
Monday, May 18, 2009 4:05 PM

New York Times WPF Kit

If you browse the source code for the New York Times Silverlight Kit , you’ll notice that there are two project that are not for Silverlight but for WPF applications.  It turns out that most of the code that will work in Silverlight will work in
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 3 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 3:26 PM

Need Help with my Chroma Key Pixel Shader Algorithm

I’ve just uploaded a simple demo application that shows the Silverlight 3 Chroma Key Effect in action.  If you don’t have the Silverlight 3 beta installed you will need to install it from here (the install link in the application will not work). 
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:22 PM

Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle

I just used Sandcastle and the HTML Help Workshop to build the documentation for the New York Times Silverlight Kit .  It took a little hacking to get it working but it turned out some pretty cool docs.  You can download the .CHM file here .
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:47 PM

New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source

We are excited to announce that the New York Times Silverlight Kit is now an Open Source project distributed under the MS-PL license .  There are some pretty cool techniques here that you might want to look at as you build your own Silverlight kits:
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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
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:33 AM

The New York Times Silverlight Kit

Today we are excited to announce a new alliance with the New York Times around a new Silverlight Kit for the New York Times APIs.  The New York Times has made a number of services freely available to software developers as REST services at their
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 14 Comments
Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:22 PM

Meet Me at the MySpace SF devJam 5/26/2009

Next month I’ll be going to the MySpace San Francisco devJam , a free all-day event at the MySpace San Francisco headquarters.  I’ll be there learning more about the MySpace Developer Platform and hopefully I’ll see you there too.  Our commitment
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:52 PM

Viewstream’s Silverlight Gets Social Event (5/14 in San Francisco)

Viewstream , a Microsoft Silverlight partner is hosting an event in San Francisco on Thursday, May 14th and asked me to talk briefly about my work with the Silverlight Kit for MySpace and what interesting synergies that the combination of Silverlight
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:00 PM

Creating Activities with the Silverlight Kit for MySpace

We’ve just checked in code on the Silverlight Kit for MySpace that enables Silverlight applications to take advantage of the Activities framework and templates in MySpace Developer Platform . This will enable your Silverlight application on MySpace to
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