Tim Sneath
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This morning, Mozilla shared their feelings on IE9 with a post that claims to answer the question,...
Date: 02/15/2011
While my job here at Microsoft consumes much of my waking life, I spend a little of my spare time...
Date: 11/29/2010
The HTML5 family of specifications provide two different models for vector graphics: canvas and SVG....
Date: 11/02/2010
MVVM (Model/View/ViewModel) is an architectural pattern that is well-suited for Silverlight and WPF...
Date: 11/02/2010
Websites are exploding in the quantity of interactivity they contain: over the last few years, they...
Date: 11/01/2010
Browser performance is a multi-dimensional topic: there are eleven different subsystems that taken...
Date: 11/01/2010
In the last session, focusing on virtual memory, it was noted that there was almost no connection...
Date: 10/29/2010
Fundamentals of Memory Management Windows has both physical and virtual memory. Memory is managed in...
Date: 10/28/2010
Now that the keynote is over, my formal duties for the event are mostly complete. Lots going on...
Date: 10/28/2010
Tomorrow is the start of the PDC, and while I have a quiet moment before the final keynote...
Date: 10/27/2010
Love this Hallowe’en card creator from Archetype: Built using Silverlight, it enables you to carve...
Date: 10/19/2010
For many developers, the acid test of whether HTML5 is ready for primetime is gaming. Few other...
Date: 10/11/2010
This is really nicely done – a behind-the-scenes video for the Never Mind the Bullets project I...
Date: 10/07/2010
I’m serious. I genuinely think this is the single most exciting open position in Microsoft today....
Date: 10/06/2010
An interesting discussion broke out in the comments to the blog post on Never Mind the Bullets...
Date: 10/03/2010
It’s been a while – almost exactly a year – since I last wrote an entry for the blog. To tell the...
Date: 09/29/2010
The PDC is the pinnacle of the Microsoft events calendar as far as I’m concerned: it’s the flagship...
Date: 09/23/2009
As everyone must know by now, the Windows 7 Release Candidate is broadly released and available for...
Date: 05/06/2009
What is Windows 7 doing at a web conference like MIX09? Last week I went along to the above titled...
Date: 03/24/2009
Windows Azure isn’t particularly “on-topic” for this blog, but hey, just because I’m a client guy...
Date: 03/24/2009
Seema Ramchandani works on performance as a Program Manager on the Silverlight team. She gave a...
Date: 03/24/2009
Brandon Bray gave an interesting presentation at MIX09 on how the CLR (the execution engine that...
Date: 03/23/2009
Deborah Adler presented a fascinating case study of how user experience design can really have a...
Date: 03/19/2009
Dean Hachamovitch is the General Manager for the Internet Explorer team. Amazingly, he managed to...
Date: 03/19/2009
As announced at the MIX09 conference today, we just shipped the final version of Internet Explorer...
Date: 03/19/2009
At 9am Pacific (GMT-7), I’ll start live blogging the second day of MIX09 keynotes. As with...
Date: 03/19/2009
In previous years, I’ve posted a live blog here of the major announcements at our flagship developer...
Date: 03/17/2009
It’s been a little while in coming, but I’m delighted to announce that we’ve shipped the latest...
Date: 02/23/2009
Not a huge release this one, but we've just shipped an update for Silverlight 2 that fixes a number...
Date: 02/19/2009
A lot, it turns out. Some long-time readers may remember my post of a year or two back where I set a...
Date: 01/29/2009
Just wanted to take a moment to highlight Mike Swanson’s amazing theme pack for Windows 7. Mike is a...
Date: 01/25/2009
Over the next week or so, I want to put a bit of context behind some of the announcements from PDC,...
Date: 11/03/2008
It’s Sunday morning, and I’m sitting back-stage in the huge keynote room here at the PDC in Los...
Date: 10/26/2008
Get it from https://silverlight.net/GetStarted, along with the developer tools, documentation and the...
Date: 06/06/2008
If you're into any of the technologies that this blog covers, you'll be mad if you miss the...
Date: 05/30/2008
I haven't seen these training videos receive nearly the coverage they deserve, so I wanted to try...
Date: 05/20/2008
Today I'm excited to announce the public beta availability of a major new release of WPF. Since we...
Date: 05/12/2008