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Silverlight for Windows Phone is one of the most exciting things
to come along since the original release of Silverlight. Now I can
take my same Silverlight/WPF skills and use them not only on the
web, and on the desktop, but also on the Windows Phone. Silverlight
for Windows Phone is an out-of-browser, chromeless, implementation
of Silverlight designed as the premier application development t...
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A month ago I recorded this video with Expression Blend PM Pete
Blois. Pete is a great guy to talk with, especially if you're
interested in Expression Blend. We chatted about Silverlight 4,
Silverlight for Windows Phone (and the Blend designer for that),
how multitargeting works in Blend, and about rooler, Pete's great
tool for measuring, screen cap and more.
PS. Yes, I used rooler to take ...
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Not too long ago, at PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta.
Silverlight 4 beta added a ton of new capabilities over what we had
with Silverlight 3. Today, we announced the Release Candidate for
Silverlight 4, bringing Silverlight 4 one step closer to
completion. Congratulations to the product team for all the hard
work they've put in to get us this far. I'm also excited about all
the great app...
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I recently published two new interview videos on Channel 9, both
with product team folks here at Microsoft. You'll also see that
I've redone the video overlays to bring them in line with my site
theme. Love it? Hate it? Let me know.
Henry Sowizral
The first is with Henry Sowizral. Henry and I
chat about what it takes to take a real application, with tons of
legacy C, C++ and even assembly co...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #16, the last one
before all the MIX festivities. Sending this one out a day early so
I can make my flight on Sunday. In preparation for all the coolness
at MIX,
make sure you have your Silverlight/WPF/XNA development toolbox up
to date.
I'll be at MIX10 this week. Be sure to watch the keynote
at MIX (usually broadcast live), as well as the sessions o...
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Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for
them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even
think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote
showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing trivia
questions.
MIX has been my favorite conference since I first attended in 2006. Last year I had a
blast and entered the showoff with...
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We've all been busy on our various sites. Earlier this year, we
put out an overall redesign for MSDN. Yesterday, the asp.net site
team went live with a redesign to the asp.net site (looks awesome,
btw). Also yesterday, we went live with the redesigned Windows Developer Center on MSDN.
The team really pulled out all the stops in making this a
beautiful and usable site. From a visual design sta...
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I've recently posted a few articles here
on my site. You may wonder why articles and not blog posts?
One problem I ran into on my previous site was the dating of
content that could be updated over time. You often run into this
with regular blog sites as well. I strongly dislike going back and
editing old blog posts, as the blog format wasn't really intended
for that. Blog posts should be accu...
