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Uploading Silverlight 2 Content to Silverlight Streaming

Following on very nicely from my last post on deploying Silverlight content to your own production server , I'm pleased to announce that Silverlight Streaming has added full support for Silverlight 2 applications. As well as adding the basic support, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:24 PM by tims | 12 Comments

Filed under: silverlight, silverlight streaming, lab, silverlight 2

So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?

OK, so you've got all the bits downloaded and installed on your machine. What's the best way to start to get familiar with everything we've added to Silverlight 2? Well, you could do worse than start with the thirty page hands-on lab that I spent part Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:57 PM by tims | 23 Comments

Filed under: silverlight, lab, tutorial, training, silverlight 2, xaml

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

Filed under: humor, expression, screencast, silverlight, lab, silverlight 2, mix08

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

Filed under: wpf, blend, events, cider, screencast, silverlight, lab, training, presentation

Silverlight 1.0 Issue Resolution Lab: November 2007

A couple of months ago, we conducted an experiment where we offered our lab facilities and technical resources here in Redmond to companies building Silverlight sites or applications that wanted assistance in resolving issues. We were really delighted Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:39 PM by tims | 2 Comments

Filed under: events, silverlight, lab

Come to a Silverlight Lab in Redmond

From time to time, we run development labs in Redmond where folk can bring their applications in and work on them in a secure lab environment, with hands-on support from ourselves and other members of the product group. The next one is taking place on Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:44 PM by tims | 7 Comments

Filed under: events, silverlight, lab

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

Filed under: blend, expression, design, blogs, silverlight, sample, lab, tutorial

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

Filed under: wpf, blend, visual studio, lab