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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

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

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 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 | 23 Comments

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
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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
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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
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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
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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 | 10 Comments
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