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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 Keynote Live Blog

I'm going to try to keep up a live blog this morning through the keynote to provide folk with an Engadget-style blow-by-blow account of proceedings. Keep hitting refresh on this entry to see the latest news as it comes. 9:30am - Ray Ozzie is on stage Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:40 AM by tims | 20 Comments

Filed under: wpf, Windows Live, presentation, silverlight 2, mix08, sql server, ie

Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF

I'm delighted to see that Infragistics have just released their NetAdvantage control set for WPF. It's a huge download: over 100MB, so either the controls are very big, the documentation is extremely verbose, or there are lots of samples included! This Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:31 AM by tims | 9 Comments

Filed under: wpf, mfc, controls, xaml, user interface

Flotzam: Mashing up the Web

Have you seen Flotzam ? It's a fun mash-up that Karsten and Tim put together that aggregates a bunch of different data sources: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, YouTube and indeed any general RSS feed. You can install it either as an application or a Read More...

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 3:08 PM by tims | 1 Comments

Filed under: wpf, ria, blend, design, flickr, digg, twitter, mix08, contest, xaml

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

Filed under: wpf, ria, new york times, msdn, sample

Great WPF Applications #17: HP Interactive Canvas

Kapow! Shazam! Zing! Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet drove in hard with a right hook last week , referencing my recently-returned-from-hiatus series of great WPF applications and asking why Windows Vista didn't have more killer applications. As one of her correspondents Read More...

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 6:02 PM by tims | 6 Comments

Filed under: wpf, portfolio

The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 5:26 PM by tims | 8 Comments

Filed under: wpf, blend, design, silverlight, whitepaper, xaml, workflow, user interface

Great WPF Applications #16: Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

It's time for me to reboot this series that showcases great applications built on WPF. I left it on hiatus for some months because I felt that the point had been well made, but it's probably time to pick it up again, not least because there's a swathe Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:30 AM by tims | 19 Comments

Filed under: wpf, portfolio

WPF and Silverlight Contest Season Is Here!

The snow has arrived (here in Redmond, at least), and people are starting to wind down for the holidays. No doubt you're dreading the arrival of Aunt Mabel for an extended stay and are planning an opportunity to escape to a remote hideaway cave and finally Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:19 AM by tims | 2 Comments

Filed under: wpf, silverlight, contest

Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0

It's been gratifying to see how much excitement there is out there about Silverlight. We've barely started the engines yet, but we've already had a number of big sites launch their first Silverlight experiences, and of course plenty of stuff underway Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:51 AM by tims | 64 Comments

Filed under: wpf, ria, changes, silverlight, silverlight 2, mix08

Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom Read More...

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 2:49 PM by tims | 22 Comments

Filed under: wpf, blend, events, cider, screencast, silverlight, lab, training, presentation

The Zero-Effort Guide to Preparing a Great WPF Presentation

A couple of months ago, I posted a couple of presentations on Silverlight, with the intention of making it easy for others to liberally borrow content for their own internal or external presentations on the subject. They seemed to go down pretty well Read More...

Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 11:04 AM by tims | 12 Comments

Filed under: wpf, presentation