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June 2007 - Posts

A Summer of WPF and Silverlight Training

Summer's here, and that usually means a bit of a slow-down in the office as folk take off on vacation. It's also a great time for some new skills development and training, and as there's a smorgasbord of WPF and Silverlight-related courses taking place Read More...
Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 5:07 PM by tims | 10 Comments

Some Great Silverlight Controls

The Silverlight 1.1 alpha bits don't currently have much in the way of controls. The infrastructure is there (you can derive from System.Windows.Control, for instance), and we include a few early sample controls (button, slider and so on, including source Read More...
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 4:21 PM by tims | 8 Comments

Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers

Celso Gomes is an amazing interactive designer working at Microsoft who is responsible for the beautiful sample applications that ship with Expression Blend and did some of the earliest design explorations for Silverlight. Now he's come up with Nibbles Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:40 AM by tims | 5 Comments

More Fun with Silverlight Video: Ad Overlays

Viral video sites are everywhere: it seems that everyone has an embarrassing moment or unusual performance that they want to share with the world at large in the hope of becoming the next internet celebrity. All those videos eat up a huge amount of bandwidth, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:42 PM by tims | 5 Comments

Demo: The Power of Silverlight Video

As we were pretty explicit in declaring at the MIX conference last month, one of the key scenarios for Silverlight 1.0 is delivering rich video experiences. But since the word "rich" is something of a cliché in the web world, I wanted to give a small Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:27 PM by tims | 8 Comments

WPF Hands-on-Lab: Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone

I got wind today of a great hands-on lab that demonstrates the steps needed to create a high-quality user interface for business applications using WPF and Expression Blend. Two engineers from Microsoft Switzerland, Ronnie Saurenmann and Ruihua Jin, have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:57 AM by tims | 26 Comments
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Programming HTML with C#

In my last post , I promised to provide a more detailed technical explanation of how you can use the .NET capabilities of Silverlight with HTML, allowing full access to the HTML DOM from managed code as well as providing a means for client-side JavaScript Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:24 AM by tims | 9 Comments

Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

I wanted to highlight a Silverlight feature that is often overlooked, relating to the way that Silverlight interacts with HTML. Although most people think about Silverlight as a technology for building web-based user interfaces through XAML, it also offers Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:59 AM by tims | 11 Comments
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Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design

Arturo Toledo (one of our ace designers) posted a reminder on an internal email list that lynda.com have heaps of free training on Expression Blend and Expression Design available as screencasts. The Expression Blend material is presented by Lee Brimelow Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:15 PM by tims | 6 Comments

Silverlight in the UK and Ireland...

Sorry - I temporarily fell off the blogging wagon. It's tough to keep it going - there's always new stuff to blog about, but finding the time to write and polish is more challenging. It's been a busy month with all the follow-up from MIX, a brief vacation, Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 11:00 AM by tims | 6 Comments
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