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Download Links for MIX08 Announcements

Here's a consolidated list of all the key downloads you'll need to update your developer workstation to the latest and greatest technologies announced this morning: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86) Windows Vista / Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:57 PM by tims | 24 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

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

Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 2:49 PM by tims | 22 Comments

Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!

As indicated in a previous post , we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks another milestone with the launch of the first release candidate. Since the beta we released at MIX, we've fixed approximately 2000 bugs and work items Read More...
Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 12:00 PM by tims | 75 Comments

Announcing Family.Show 2.0

Three months ago, we launched Family.Show, our first end-to-end reference sample for WPF. Family.Show is a genealogy program that demonstrates the usage of WPF for a complex, realistic scenario. If you're a fledgling WPF developer who wants to pore over Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:26 AM by tims | 14 Comments
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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

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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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

Our First WPF End-To-End Reference Sample: Family.Show

The first three days of next week are going to be crammed full of announcements as MIX gets under way (click the hyperlink above to view the virtual conference site, where you'll be able to keep up-to-date on everything that's going on). In any big week Read More...
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 5:15 PM by tims | 19 Comments
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Microsoft Expression Launch Event

I'm presuming that almost everyone who follows this blog has at least one of the Expression design tools on their machine; Expression Blend (formeddrly known as "Sparkle" or Expression Interactive Designer) is an essential part of the arsenal for any Read More...
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 11:49 AM by tims | 11 Comments

Windows Presentation Foundation Blogs

Last updated: November 1st, 2007 A list of blogs from various product team members and other related groups. Import the list of WPF bloggers into IE 7 with this OPML file. Windows Presentation Foundation 3D Team ( web feed ) Text Team ( web feed ) XPS Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:42 PM by tims | 0 Comments
 
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