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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 | 52 Comments

Filed under: wpf, changes, visual studio, cider, windows, controls

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

Filed under: vista, wpf, changes, version, windows

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 | 9 Comments

Filed under: wpf, windows, silverlight, silverlight streaming, silverlight 2, xaml

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

Filed under: wpf, msdn, windows, orcas, sample, sdk

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 | 4 Comments

Filed under: vista, web, windows, silverlight, Windows Live, silverlight 2, mix08, ie, office

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

Filed under: vista, windows, windows 7

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

Filed under: setup, windows, feedback

Virtual PC Museum 2007

As Mike Swanson mentions in his blog, Virtual PC 2007 was released this week as a free download. This isn't a revolutionary release, but it's notable for its support for Windows Vista as both a guest and host OS, as well as x64 architecture host support. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:07 AM by tims | 19 Comments

Filed under: vista, xp, windows, virtual pc

WPF - State of the Nation, January 2007

In celebration of the launch of Windows Vista (and of course, Windows Presentation Foundation), I sat down with Ian Ellison-Taylor yesterday to chat about what's next for WPF. We touch briefly on the inception of the project and the surprises and the Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:26 PM by tims | 1 Comments

Filed under: wpf, windows