Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

How to build a good install UX with Silverlight

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:17:28 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight The Silverlight object model exposes events that can be used to build a very friendly end user experience for installing Silverlight. When it comes to using a Web site that requires a plug-in...(read more)

Free Silverlight 3 Book Preview Now available…

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:48:17 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight For those of you who were not able to attend MIX (and it wasn’t just the best MIX ever, but IMHO the best conference I’ve ever been to), and were not able to get their hands on a copy of my Silverlight...(read more)

March Madness is upon us

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:39:27 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Basketball , March Madness Just a quick update from MIX. If you’re a sports fan, I’m sure you’re familiar with March Madness :) Well it kicks off today, and it’s all available, free and in HD on http://mmod.ncaa.com...(read more)

One Last Riddle: Solve this and win a pass to MIX09

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:53:44 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight So, if you haven’t gotten into MIX already, or if your employer is pulling back on budgets because of the economy, here’s a chance to score a free pass (just a pass mind you, and...(read more)

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:48:19 GMT

The Patterns and Practices team @ Microsoft have been busy working on helping answer the question – how do I maximize my skills in XAML and .NET development to build for both Silverlight and WPF. The result: Prism 2.0 has just been released to the wild....(read more)

Think you have search engine skillz? Prove it and win a pass to MIX.

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:28:31 GMT

I’m glad you all enjoyed the last riddle, the answer to which was ‘Area 51’. I told the story in the comments section. Due to its popularity, I’ve scored another pass, and want to try out your search engine skills to do a sort-of global scavenger hunt....(read more)

Solve the riddle, and get a free pass to MIX

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:32:28 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 As you may know, MIX is coming up very soon – March 18-20 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. You can find the full details on the conference at http://www.visitmix.com . It’s an unmissable...(read more)

Strangely Hypnotic Silverlight App

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:21:31 GMT

I just got this in my email from Denis Dollfus , and had to share it. It’s an extremely odd, and strangely hypnotic app. Would make a great screensaver :)...(read more)

MIX09 – Why YOU should be there.

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:49:26 GMT

Ok, so we turn on the news and we see economic crisis everywhere, we hear of layoffs and cost cutting and rumors of depression. Well, I’m a rose-tinted-glasses kind of guy, and I firmly believe that it is at times like this that the smarter investor sows...(read more)

Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :)

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:24:56 GMT

A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out. First up is Monteverdi.tv, a portal for classical music events, built in PHP, but which delivers Silverlight: http://live.monteverdi.tv/rco/view.php It allows...(read more)

Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :)

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:12 GMT

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m an Otaku and I’m happy that I work in a job that allows me to visit Otaku heaven (Akihabara) once or twice a year. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before someone used Silverlight to build a site for Otaku like me...(read more)

Silverlight and Windows Live

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:05:48 GMT

For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, I’m now pleased to announce that Windows Live downloads will include Silverlight in the installation. If you haven’t already tried the Windows Live applications, I thoroughly recommend...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Update for BiDirectional Text in Hebrew and Arabic

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:12:34 GMT

In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the number of fonts were constrained to those that would be available on most computers. On this blog I listed a number of workarounds for languages such as...(read more)

Book Review – Building an Olympics-based Website.

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:14:31 GMT

Mimi Chau of the Asian media center and Asia-Pacific news agency has just published a book on what it takes to build and develop the design parameters for a digital media center. She uses the huge showcase of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 as the...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Book – In Russian

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:32:07 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight First of all I’d like to say a big Happy New Year to everybody reading, and in particular to my friends in Russia who have made my ‘Introducing Silverlight 2’ book a big success over there. С...(read more)