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December 2007 - Posts

Silverlight Christmas Cards

Around the world, people are preparing to gather together to celebrate the holiday season, to give and receive gifts and to sing carols. This year sees the start of a new tradition that our children and our grandchildren will preserve and pass on: the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:20 PM by tims | 6 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #17: HP Interactive Canvas

Kapow! Shazam! Zing! Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet drove in hard with a right hook last week , referencing my recently-returned-from-hiatus series of great WPF applications and asking why Windows Vista didn't have more killer applications. As one of her correspondents Read More...
Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 6:02 PM by tims | 6 Comments
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Watch Jackass 2.5 - Free and Exclusive on Silverlight!

Although we're all too proud to admit it, I doubt there's anyone reading this who doesn't love to while away the odd bit of free time perusing sites like YouTube and break.com for funny videos of stupid people doing dangerous things. However, there are Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:14 PM by tims | 20 Comments
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Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

I just wanted to clarify something that is hopefully already pretty well understood. As folk know, we released an alpha of Silverlight 1.1 at MIX, and there are lots of people who would love to use it even in its current form. It's great to see the excitement Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:30 PM by tims | 10 Comments

Share Your Christmas Wishlist / Hatelist with Silverlight

Here's a cool little Silverlight 1.0 application that our team (specifically Adam ) assisted with over the last week. In the run-up to Christmas, I'm sure a lot of us are told that we're "hard to buy for". Wouldn't it be nice if there was some Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 11:09 AM by tims | 6 Comments
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The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 5:26 PM by tims | 8 Comments

Great WPF Applications #16: Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

It's time for me to reboot this series that showcases great applications built on WPF. I left it on hiatus for some months because I felt that the point had been well made, but it's probably time to pick it up again, not least because there's a swathe Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:30 AM by tims | 19 Comments
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WPF and Silverlight Contest Season Is Here!

The snow has arrived (here in Redmond, at least), and people are starting to wind down for the holidays. No doubt you're dreading the arrival of Aunt Mabel for an extended stay and are planning an opportunity to escape to a remote hideaway cave and finally Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:19 AM by tims | 2 Comments
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