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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

MIX08 for Non-Attendees

At last, the mad rush is over. The run-up to a conference like MIX is always frantic: for me, the first three weeks in February involved a constant juggle of competing priorities. With the exception of one last-minute firedrill, the worst was over by Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 12:01 PM by tims | 13 Comments

Introducing Video.Show: A Silverlight Reference-quality Sample

One of the favorite things about my job is being able to share really cool new content with you all, and so today is a good day to end the week on! Since we completed the Family.Show WPF reference sample, we've been working away in partnership with a Read More...
Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 5:41 PM by tims | 25 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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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

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

Expression Media Encoder

Download a free trial version here ... Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:49 AM by tims | 1 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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Introducing Expression Media Encoder

It's been a busy day of announcements! Amidst the hubbub of the introduction of Silverlight, complete with industry pundits drooling with glee at the thought of a titanic clash between Adobe and Microsoft, we also announced a key new media utility as Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 5:22 PM by tims | 3 Comments

WPF / Expression Technical Chat: February 21st

We had a pretty successful online technical chat in December , where we brought about twenty members of the WPF team together to answer your technical questions and listen to your feedback. Based on the response, we're going to host a similar event at Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 2:44 PM by tims | 5 Comments
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New Screencast Show on WPF and Expression

The first show of a potentially great new series on WPF and Expression has just hit the wires . Andrew and Dax are going to do a series of screencasts covering the use of .NET Framework 3.0 presentation technologies over the next few months. In this first Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 8:20 AM by tims | 3 Comments

WPF and WPF/E Bloggers List: Updated for 2007

For the last couple of years, I've undertaken the thankless task of trying to maintain a list of active bloggers on WPF. Unfortunately, I've let it languish for a little while, so I've taken some time out to revamp it completely: making sure that people Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:27 PM by tims | 8 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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