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Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7

What is Windows 7 doing at a web conference like MIX09 ? Last week I went along to the above titled session, in which Yochay Kiriaty , an irrepressible evangelist on my team, presented the case for a desktop application in an increasingly web-orientated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:23 PM by tims | 2 Comments

Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight

Brandon Bray gave an interesting presentation at MIX09 on how the CLR (the execution engine that underlies the .NET Framework) was refactored to support for Silverlight; I thought I’d share my distilled notes from the session. Bringing .NET to the Silverlight Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:07 PM by tims | 7 Comments

MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences

Bill Buxton talked about why user-centered design is so important; now we’re going to talk about the “ how ”. We’re going to be talking about three key categories today: web , media and RIA . One of the things we’re trying to do is to provide a single Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:16 PM by tims | 9 Comments

Silverlight is FIZZING, Not Fizzling

Any good politician, regardless of leaning, knows that the language you use to frame a topic is key to how it is perceived. By repeatedly using pejorative terms to describe your own position and that of your opponents, you start to move a debate onto Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:30 AM by tims | 34 Comments

What Can YOU Do with 10K of Silverlight or WPF Code?

A lot, it turns out. Some long-time readers may remember my post of a year or two back where I set a fun little challenge to test what could be accomplished with just a single element of XAML . In the preparation for MIX09 , the team created a competition Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:26 AM by tims | 7 Comments

WPF Developers: PDC Wrap-Up and Visual Studio Tooling Update

Over the next week or so, I want to put a bit of context behind some of the announcements from PDC, particularly the ones that got glossed over amidst the excitement over Windows 7 and Windows Azure. I’m going to start with highlighting some of the work Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 4:05 PM by tims | 9 Comments

What You’ll Hear at PDC2008

My favorite conference is almost upon us. If I’ve been quiet for a little while on my blog, it’s because this has been a crazy busy season for me and my team, as we put all the pieces in place for PDC2008. PDC is Microsoft’s flagship conference, both Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 9:14 PM by tims | 11 Comments

Registering for the AOL Mail Client

I mentioned yesterday that the Hard Rock memorabilia application was live already at http://memorabilia.hardrock.com . The AOL Silverlight-based mail client is not live yet, but they've just opened up their pre-registration site for testers who want to Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:27 AM by tims | 1 Comments

Video.Show 1.0 Released to Web

After three public preview releases, I'm proud to announce the final version of Video.Show , a ready-to-run solution for hosting video content on the web! You might be interested in Video.Show if: Your company or school wants to distribute e-learning Read More...
Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 2:26 PM by tims | 20 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
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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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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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Video.Show Update: 1.0 Release Candidate Now LIve

You may be pleased to know that we've just updated Video.Show with a bunch of changes. The 1.0 Release Candidate build is now available for your downloading pleasure from Codeplex. If you haven't seen Video.Show before, I'd encourage you to check it out. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 1:56 PM by tims | 3 Comments

Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0

It's been gratifying to see how much excitement there is out there about Silverlight. We've barely started the engines yet, but we've already had a number of big sites launch their first Silverlight experiences, and of course plenty of stuff underway Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:51 AM by tims | 69 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 | 26 Comments
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