Web Development Strategy @ Microsoft : ASP.NET / PHP / Silverlight / Java / UX : Architecture

Meet Silverlight Authors and Anders Hejlsberg at PDC

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:43:00 GMT

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)

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

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:20:00 GMT

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)

Silverlight: Great showcase of Silverlight 1 wins, and information on updates...

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:51:02 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight While many among you are focusing more on Silverlight 2, I still strongly recommend that you look at Silverlight 1 for your development needs. If you weren't at MIX, there's...(read more)

Live IT : I'm speaking at Tech ED Israel Tomorrow

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:54:37 GMT

If you happen to be hanging out in Eilat, Israel tomorrow, I'm speaking on 'Go Gold With Silverlight' tomorrow afternoon at 2PM local time. I'll be going into detail on what Silverlight is, and where it fits in with Microsoft's overall UX strategy. I'll...(read more)

Introducing Silverlight 1.0 Book is now available...

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:14:18 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight My First Silverlight book: Introducing Silverlight 1.0 is now available. I have to say that I am very proud of this book, and I think it is the best book that I have written. It goes through Silverlight...(read more)

If you care about Internationalizing your Silverlight Applications...

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:32:09 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You should really take a look at Justif-Josef Angel's blog, where he presents some brilliant work that he has done with Silverlight, in particular his work on supporting Right-To-Left languages...(read more)

Zero to Hero: Using the Browser Cache in Silverlight

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:51:24 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight You may be using the Silverlight downloader object to download content such as fonts but you may have noticed that every page needs to download the resources seperately, making for poor UX. Well...(read more)

Zero to Hero: How to Check if Silverlight is installed.

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:43:59 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight I've been getting lots of questions on how to check to see if Silverlight is already installed. This is actually very easy to do, but has somehow slipped through the cracks (I even missed it when...(read more)

Zero to Hero: XAML from the ground up

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:08:50 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight In the last Episode, you looked into Getting Started with Silverlight where you had a simple XAML document containing a TextBlock that you then manipulated in code. XAML is at the heart of Silverlight....(read more)

Improving performance in WPF applications

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:32:00 GMT

If you've been using WPF with layered windows to provide transparency [with the Windows.Transparency option set to true ], you may have noticed that the performance isn't what you might expect. A supported hotfix to the problem can now be downloaded....(read more)

Silverlight: Data Binding with XML

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:12:28 GMT

The fact that XAML is just XML empowers a lot of interesting scenarios. In my MSDN Article for an RSS Hero Bar, I used a XAML Template to drive the look and feel for the applicaiton, and then use the System.XML.XmlDocument to load and manipulate the template....(read more)

Silverlight and 3D

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:32:49 GMT

I just stumbled across this excellent work in Silverlight and 3D. Another great example of how the power of the .NET framework behind Silverlight can empower the developer to drastically extend the runtime. http://www.dolittle.com/blogs/einar/archive/2007/05/19/3d-in-silverlight-1-1-alpha.aspx...(read more)

More Silverlight and Ink

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:49:13 GMT

Some great stuff by Julie Lerman on her Blog, who got this up and running today despite her blog being under attack by forces unknown! http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/ In a famous ice cream store parlance: Like it! Love it! Gotta have it! :)...(read more)

Silverlight: Convert Ink to Xaml

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:33:52 GMT

I have to say that I absolutely love the path mini language that is part of XAML. If you haven't heard about it, there are more details here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752293.aspx So, while playing with ink in Silverlight, I realized...(read more)

Silverlight: The OnLoad event

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:17:05 GMT

Lots of folks have been asking questions around their WPF/E applications and why the onLoad event that worked nicely with the CTPs breaks in the Silverlight 1.0 beta. Well, it's because the onLoad event signature has changed, and unfortunately the documentation...(read more)