Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » silverlight   (RSS)

Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application

Seema Ramchandani works on performance as a Program Manager on the Silverlight team. She gave a fast-paced talk at MIX09 covering the graphics and media that contained some helpful tips for performance profiling, debugging and optimization. Silverlight Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:07 PM by tims | 4 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 2 GDR1 Now Available...

Not a huge release this one, but we've just shipped an update for Silverlight 2 that fixes a number of minor bugs that have been reported over the last couple of months. Get it while it's hot, here: Silverlight 2 GDR1 end-user runtime Silverlight 2 GDR1 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:42 PM by tims | 29 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

Silverlight 2 – Today is the Day!

A gloomy, rainy Monday morning is rarely a pleasure to be savored, but today is a great day! We’ve signed-off on the final release of Silverlight 2 – every control has been added, the last few bug fixes have made it into the release, and it’s finally Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 9:25 AM 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

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Is Here!

Get it from http://silverlight.net/GetStarted , along with the developer tools, documentation and the June update to Blend 2.5. Lots of new goodies – as ever, Scott Guthrie’s blog has a comprehensive guide. I’m not going to try and compete with him today: Read More...
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 6:59 PM by tims | 9 Comments

Controlling the Distribution of Silverlight Updates in the Enterprise

I've posted a few times about issues relating to enterprise distribution of Silverlight , and I thought I'd mention one additional topic that came up during a customer tour that I've been on for the last ten days. If you're a systems administrator, one Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 8:02 AM by tims | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,

Silverlight 1.0 - New Maintenance Release Available

We released a minor maintenance update to Silverlight 1.0 over the weekend (internally known as GDR3 , where GDR stands for "General Distribution Release"). I'm sure most readers of this blog already have Silverlight 2 Beta 1 installed on their Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 7:08 AM by tims | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,

Silverlight Rehab

Just loved the team's latest Silverlight video. Props to Adam, Laura, Nic, Monica, Dan, Scott and Tina. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 1:47 PM by tims | 5 Comments
Filed under: , ,

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 | 15 Comments

Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content

Deploying Silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Despite occasional misconception, Silverlight doesn't require a Microsoft-based web server: Apache can host up Silverlight content just as happily as IIS. But there's one Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:11 PM by tims | 12 Comments

MIX08 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog

I'm going to be "live blogging" the Steve Ballmer keynote this afternoon at this URL. Keep this blog post bookmarked and start hitting "refresh" shortly after the keynote starts at 1pm Pacific / 9pm GMT. Or simply tune in to the webcast Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:37 AM by tims | 5 Comments
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker