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Silverlight 1.0 Beta to RC: It's Time To Move...

Hopefully many of you have now upgraded to the Silverlight 1.0 RC (or 1.1 Alpha Refresh bits). Just...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/31/2007

What's New in WPF 3.5? Here's Fifteen Cool Features...

A lot of WPF developers know that Visual Studio 2008 will include much better baked-in support for...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/27/2007

Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!

As indicated in a previous post, we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/27/2007

Announcing Family.Show 2.0

Three months ago, we launched Family.Show, our first end-to-end reference sample for WPF....

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/17/2007

Preparing for Silverlight 1.0 RC and Beyond

In just a couple of weeks, we'll be ready to publish the Release Candidate of Silverlight 1.0 to the...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/13/2007

From A to Z... 50 Silverlight Applications

It's great to see so many Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and applications appearing out...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/07/2007

Come to a Silverlight Lab in Redmond

From time to time, we run development labs in Redmond where folk can bring their applications in and...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/05/2007

So You Want to Give a Silverlight Presentation?

It's my hope that you're somewhat excited by this Silverlight stuff, and if so, perhaps you're...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/04/2007

A Summer of WPF and Silverlight Training

Summer's here, and that usually means a bit of a slow-down in the office as folk take off on...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/25/2007

Some Great Silverlight Controls

The Silverlight 1.1 alpha bits don't currently have much in the way of controls. The infrastructure...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/22/2007

Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers

Celso Gomes is an amazing interactive designer working at Microsoft who is responsible for the...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/21/2007

More Fun with Silverlight Video: Ad Overlays

Viral video sites are everywhere: it seems that everyone has an embarrassing moment or unusual...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/20/2007

Demo: The Power of Silverlight Video

As we were pretty explicit in declaring at the MIX conference last month, one of the key scenarios...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/20/2007

WPF Hands-on-Lab: Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone

I got wind today of a great hands-on lab that demonstrates the steps needed to create a high-quality...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/13/2007

Programming HTML with C#

In my last post, I promised to provide a more detailed technical explanation of how you can use the...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/13/2007

Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

I wanted to highlight a Silverlight feature that is often overlooked, relating to the way that...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/07/2007

Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design

Arturo Toledo (one of our ace designers) posted a reminder on an internal email list that lynda.com...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/05/2007

Silverlight in the UK and Ireland...

Sorry - I temporarily fell off the blogging wagon. It's tough to keep it going - there's always new...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/04/2007

Silverlight Streaming is Now Live

Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007

Expression Media Encoder

Download a free trial version here...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007

WPF Momentum Video

For the last few months, I've been featuring a portfolio of great WPF applications that have shipped...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007

Silverlight Screencasts

To coincide with the launch of the Silverlight 1.0 Beta, my team has been working hard on a great...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007

Our First WPF End-To-End Reference Sample: Family.Show

The first three days of next week are going to be crammed full of announcements as MIX gets under...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/27/2007

Silverlight Redux: Listening to Feedback...

Although it was great to see that my post on Silverlight got picked up in a few places (in...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/18/2007

Introducing Expression Media Encoder

It's been a busy day of announcements! Amidst the hubbub of the introduction of Silverlight,...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/16/2007

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight

It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight: our next-generation,...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/16/2007

Great WPF Applications #15: Microsoft Indexing Service

[Update: Happy April Fool's Day, everyone! For the avoidance of doubt, this was a hoax...] At the...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/01/2007

Great WPF Applications #14: Zurich Airport

From the beautiful city of Zürich in Switzerland comes this great example of how WPF makes data...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/27/2007

Great WPF Applications #13: Pass

Let's say for a moment that you're a small business trader that needs to be able to receive payments...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/14/2007

Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Released...

The final release of the VS 2005 update for Windows Vista is now available. This update fixes most...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/07/2007

Great WPF Applications #12: Roxio Central

I'm hoping that by now, you're starting to get a sense for the range and breadth of real-world WPF...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/05/2007

Windows Vista Light-Up is Just a Recompile Away for Your MFC Application...

Yesterday's post on the release of the Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP triggered a great question...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/02/2007

WPF and Orcas

(No, that's not a whale reference...) Today we released a fresh CTP of the next release of Visual...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/28/2007

WPF Chat Transcript #2 Now Available

Thanks to the 120+ of you who showed up for the second technical chat with the WPF and Expression...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/26/2007

Great WPF Applications #11: Areva e-terravision

I've been trying with this series to satisfy the desire we all have for instant gratification by...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/22/2007

Great WPF Applications #10: Daily Mail, Seattle P-I, forbes.com, New York Times

I've been holding off from highlighting the New York Times Reader as one of the applications in my...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/22/2007

Virtual PC Museum 2007

As Mike Swanson mentions in his blog, Virtual PC 2007 was released this week as a free download....

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/20/2007

Digg for WPF

What would Digg look like if it focused exclusively on WPF? Probably this...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/15/2007

Great WPF Applications #9: Scripps Institute Cancer Research

I'm behind on my write-ups of great WPF applications, and they're stacking up. Sorry! The next...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/14/2007

Great WPF Applications #8: NoteScraps

I love this little application: it's a joyous example of how the subtle use of WPF can add greatly...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/09/2007

Great WPF Applications #7: Skandia Cowes Week CourseSetter

I wanted to draw attention to this one, because it's such a fun usage of WPF. Each summer, the...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/06/2007

WPF / Expression Technical Chat: February 21st

We had a pretty successful online technical chat in December, where we brought about twenty members...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/05/2007

New Screencast Show on WPF and Expression

The first show of a potentially great new series on WPF and Expression has just hit the wires....

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/05/2007

Great WPF Applications #6: fnac.com

If you want to see a contrasting online shopping experience to Otto, you could do worse than look at...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/02/2007

Google, Share Prices and Ads

Seeing Google announce quarterly earnings nearly triple their results for the same quarter of last...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/01/2007

Great WPF Applications #5: TF1

I'm slightly accelerating the pace of these articles from the planned daily push, simply because...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/01/2007

Great WPF Applications #4: Otto

Although you may not have heard of them by name, Otto Group are a huge retail conglomerate with €9b...

Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/01/2007

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