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October 2008 - Posts

Windows Azure

In my previous post, I was thoughtstreaming Ray Ozzie’s keynote. He’s just announced the name of the Web tier operating system – Windows Azure. It’s designed for cloud computing. It’s a new service based operating environment specifically designed for Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 8:59 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Without Apps, there’d be Gaps – Blogging from PDC2008

I’m here at PDC 2008 (doing a book signing today of my ‘Introducing Silverlight 2’ book, wink wink), and will try to do some blogging / thought streams live from the keynotes. Day 1 keynote is Ray Ozzie, talking about his pre-Microsoft background. One Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 8:47 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC

There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. In addition to me being there on Monday signing 'Introducing Silverlight 2', we'll all have the privelige of being able to Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:43 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

<3 your web, Vegas style, it’s MIX time again – MIX09 now open for registration…

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: Mix09 , Silverlight It’s that wonderful time of the year again. The sun is still shining, the leaves are changing color, the Seahawks are in contention and…oh wait a minute the Seahawks probably aren’t Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:28 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments

Ensuring that your JavaScript Silverlight applications work with Silverlight 2

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   While Silverlight 2 was designed to be fully backwards compatible with Silverlight 1.0, there is a chance that you may have some JavaScript code that behaves differently than expected when Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:35 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 5 Comments

Panoramic Deep Zoom -- Question of the Day -- Repost

If you want to learn how to stitch diverse photos together into a panorama, and then turn it into a Deep Zoom application, it's actually very easy, and I've got the full details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2008/10/18/panoramic-deep-zoom-question-of-the-day.aspx Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:20 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Panoramic Deep Zoom – Question of the Day

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , DeepZoom , Deep Zoom Technorati Tags: Silverlight , DeepZoom , Deep Zoom   I’ve had lots of folks asking me about how some sites (such as Hard Rock ) were able to stitch photos together to effectively make a panorama, Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:30 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Mac Install or Detection Failures – Question of the Day

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Mac del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Mac Silverlight is suppported on the Mac as you may well know, but not on the PPC-based versions. Occasionally we get questions from folks who have Intel-based Macs, but who cannot install Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:16 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments

Where can I get the Silverlight 2 Bits? – Question of the Day

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight So, you may have seen that we’ve finally wrapped up Silverlight 2. The details are here . There’s a lot of good stuff in that announcement, and I’ll get to them in tomorrows post. But first, where Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:34 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 4 Comments

Introducing Silverlight 2 – Code updates for RC0/RTM

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Lots of you nice folks who bought my Silverlight 2 book have been asking for updates and fixes to the code. Once we got RC0 out the door, I started updating the code, a process which is now finished. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:49 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 5 Comments

Silverlight: Sharepoint Sweet Spot

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , Sharepoint Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Sharepoint   Alliteration actually amazes me. :) Anyway, there's a great sweet spot between Silverlight and Sharepoint. Sharepoint is a great technology that allows you to Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:00 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Why don't Beta 2 sites work on RC0 - Question of the Day

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   I've been getting a lot of questions and confusion around why you get the following strange behavior. "I've installed the RC0 developer runtime, and whenever I hit a Beta 2 site, I Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:22 AM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 8 Comments

Silverlight RC0 and Beta 2 Side by Side: Question of the Day

A question I've been getting a lot since we released RC0 is this: 'When Microsoft does the RTW release, there will be a period of time where *some* of my users have Beta 2 and *some* of them have RTW. How do I ensure that each of them will get an unbroken Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 6:54 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 15 Comments

Working at Microsoft: The Connector Bus

Technorati Tags: Microsoft If you are fortunate enough to work for MS in its Corporate HQ, they provide a ‘bus’ called the Connector that links with many of the suburbs around Seattle, including mine. I say ‘bus’ because it is a luxury coach with power Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:12 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 3 Comments

DeepZoom your Office Documents!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight   In a previous blog posting I showed how you could use Silverlight as an XPS renderer, so you could view your documents. This is nice, but had the drawback in that the entire document had Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 8:10 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 1 Comments

Windows 7 gets the BoyBand treatment

And who says Microsoft and PC's are for people in brown suits? :) http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/PDC-2008-is-cominghellip-and-I-canrsquot-wait/ These are not professional musicians, dancers etc., but a bunch of the TE's that work in my building, including Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 7:18 PM by lmoroney@microsoft.com | 2 Comments
 
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