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January 2008 - Posts

Windows '7' Technical Evangelist: Are YOU The Person We're Looking For?

It's not a state secret that we're in the early stages of development for the next version of Windows (given the internal name of Windows '7'). The specifics of what comes next are always the subject of fevered and sometimes inaccurate speculation, but Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:47 AM by tims | 22 Comments
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Public Service Announcement: MIX08

Just wanted to remind folk to register for MIX08 ! Registrations are coming in thick and fast, and last year we sold out unexpectedly quickly, leaving a whole bunch of folk battering down the doors to try and figure out ways to get an exception granted. Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:41 AM by tims | 2 Comments
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Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF

I'm delighted to see that Infragistics have just released their NetAdvantage control set for WPF. It's a huge download: over 100MB, so either the controls are very big, the documentation is extremely verbose, or there are lots of samples included! This Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:31 AM by tims | 9 Comments

Flotzam: Mashing up the Web

Have you seen Flotzam ? It's a fun mash-up that Karsten and Tim put together that aggregates a bunch of different data sources: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, YouTube and indeed any general RSS feed. You can install it either as an application or a Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 3:08 PM by tims | 1 Comments

Making Silverlight Easier for Systems Administrators to Install...

If you're really astute, you may notice that we released a very minor update to the Silverlight 1.0 plug-in this week. There's no changes to the core itself, apart from a fix to improve logging of Windows Media audio-only streams; as a result, machines Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:09 PM by tims | 13 Comments
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We've Released the News Reader SDK!

Many of you have seen the New York Times reader application - it was featured as part of the portfolio I've been building up of Great WPF Applications . As I mentioned at the time, the New York Times reader is based on an SDK that we built to allow newspapers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:58 AM by tims | 36 Comments
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