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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

Windows 7 Theme Packs: Customize Your Desktop

Just wanted to take a moment to highlight Mike Swanson’s amazing theme pack for Windows 7. Mike is a colleague, friend who works just down the corridor from me. His primary role with the company is as a content owner for our developer conferences (he’s Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:59 PM by tims | 3 Comments
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The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

It’s great to see Windows 7 Beta finally released to the world! We're very proud of what has been accomplished over the last months; in many ways, it sets a new quality bar for a beta operating system release. Building on top of the Windows Vista foundation, Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 9:05 PM by tims | 268 Comments
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50 New Silverlight Screencasts - Short and Snappy

I haven't seen these training videos receive nearly the coverage they deserve, so I wanted to try and "bump" them onto the radar. My erstwhile UK colleagues Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond have been hard at work over the last few weeks recording an amazing Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 9:22 PM by tims | 9 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 | 22 Comments
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Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

OK, so you've just decided that WPF is the strategic technology of choice for your next-generation application, and you've taken the opportunity to flatten and reinstall your developer workstation. What should you put on it to create the perfect WPF development Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 2:47 PM by tims | 48 Comments
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