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A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7

As everyone must know by now, the Windows 7 Release Candidate is broadly released and available for download from the Windows site . The RC build is essentially our dress rehearsal: we’ve hit feature complete, stabilized the release, followed the active Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:13 PM by tims | 17 Comments
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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

Overview of Windows Azure

Windows Azure isn’t particularly “on-topic” for this blog, but hey, just because I’m a client guy doesn’t mean that I can’t show any interest in other technologies, right? Manuvir Das presented a session on the subject at MIX09, and since I’m sat at home Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:04 PM by tims | 1 Comments
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MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 1: Dean Hachamovitch on Internet Explorer 8

Dean Hachamovitch is the General Manager for the Internet Explorer team. Amazingly, he managed to blog about IE8 at the same time as he was delivering his keynote – he must have been typing with his feet :-) Dean started with a humorous video on the “history Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:08 AM by tims | 4 Comments
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Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application

It’s been a little while in coming, but I’m delighted to announce that we’ve shipped the latest release of Family.Show , our reference application for WPF development. Family.Show started a couple of years ago, when WPF was in its infancy and a few of Read More...
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 9:32 AM by tims | 15 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

Why You Want To Book Your PDC2008 Ticket NOW...

If you're into any of the technologies that this blog covers, you'll be mad if you miss the Professional Developers Conference this year. It's actually been three years since our last PDC, so we're overdue! I'm really excited about all the things we're Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:10 PM by tims | 14 Comments

Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation

Today I'm excited to announce the public beta availability of a major new release of WPF. Since we shipped .NET Framework 3.5 late last year, the team has been hard at work at a new release that adds many supplemental features, fixes a good number of Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 9:00 AM by tims | 79 Comments

What does Windows Vista SP1 Mean for Developers?

As many people will have noticed, we released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 this week ( read about the notable changes here ). Aside from the inevitable bug fixes and enhancements to support new hardware types, one of the underlying changes is that SP1 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:21 PM by tims | 19 Comments
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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

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 | 5 Comments
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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

Windows '7' Technical Evangelist: Are YOU The Person We're Looking For?

It's not a state secret that we're in the early stages of development for the next version of Windows (given the internal name of Windows '7'). The specifics of what comes next are always the subject of fevered and sometimes inaccurate speculation, but Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:47 AM by tims | 22 Comments
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Windows Survey on Deploying and Configuring Applications

As we plan the next release of Windows (turns out that Windows Vista wasn't the last release of Windows as we know it !), we're trying to better understand how folk are using our deployment and configuration technologies. If you've got twenty minutes Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 1:58 PM by tims | 1 Comments
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