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Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator

Congratulations to Martin Grayson and team for building one of the smartest Silverlight 2 demonstrations I've seen to date . I saw parts of this demo a month ago when I was in the UK, and I'm delighted it's now released. Whether or not you're involved Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:14 AM by tims | 16 Comments
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Have YOU Updated Your Windows SDK Recently?

It can be pretty hard to keep everything up-to-date on a developer workstation these days. With so many CTP releases, betas, and service packs, I know I often realize that my own machine is behind in one area or another. One particularly worthwhile update Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 11:15 AM by tims | 4 Comments
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A Great Early Silverlight 2 Showcase: TextGlow

We're already starting to see some cool samples that use Silverlight 2 really effectively. Prior to MIX, we had a small private beta running to get some early feedback on the builds that we were producing, and a few folk made really good use of this time Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:40 AM by tims | 6 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

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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Silverlight Christmas Cards

Around the world, people are preparing to gather together to celebrate the holiday season, to give and receive gifts and to sing carols. This year sees the start of a new tradition that our children and our grandchildren will preserve and pass on: the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:20 PM by tims | 6 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

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

A Silverlight Greetings Card

Thanks to Adam Kinney (again!) for this awesome Halloween greetings card, brought to you by Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming. The full source code can be found on Adam's blog . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:06 PM by tims | 0 Comments

Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Adam Kinney wrote a good blog entry last week on the importance for site authors of considering the first-time experience of a visitor. I guess most readers of this blog have Silverlight installed today, but at least in these first months as we focus Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 8:01 PM by tims | 21 Comments
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Has Obama Declared for Silverlight?

As a great example of what you can do today with Silverlight 1.0, I thought I'd bring this sample application, developed by Novera Consulting, to everyone's attention. I first met up with these guys when they responded to my invitation to attend a Silverlight Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 9:12 AM by tims | 5 Comments
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Updated Silverlight Samples and Yet More RC Bits

Now that the API-complete RC releases of Silverlight have been out for a couple of weeks, most developers have moved their Silverlight-based applications over to the new build. Here's an updated list of 50+ samples and applications that run on the Release Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:37 PM by tims | 20 Comments
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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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From A to Z... 50 Silverlight Applications

It's great to see so many Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and applications appearing out there. I spent a happy hour this morning searching around the Internet for examples and samples, and thought I'd aggregate the fruits of my research below. Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:11 AM by tims | 53 Comments
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