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Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator
Congratulations to Martin Grayson and team for building one of the smartest Silverlight 2...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 05/08/2008
Controlling the Distribution of Silverlight Updates in the Enterprise
I've posted a few times about issues relating to enterprise distribution of Silverlight, and I...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/07/2008
Silverlight 1.0 - New Maintenance Release Available
We released a minor maintenance update to Silverlight 1.0 over the weekend (internally known as...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/07/2008
Silverlight UK User Group: Inaugural Meeting April 2nd
The jolly chaps at Conchango are setting up a user group in London to focus on Silverlight, and the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/01/2008
Silverlight Rehab
Just loved the team's latest Silverlight video. Props to Adam, Laura, Nic, Monica, Dan, Scott and...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/31/2008
What does Windows Vista SP1 Mean for Developers?
As many people will have noticed, we released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 this week (read about the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/19/2008
Uploading Silverlight 2 Content to Silverlight Streaming
Following on very nicely from my last post on deploying Silverlight content to your own production...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/18/2008
Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content
Deploying Silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Despite...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/18/2008
Have YOU Updated Your Windows SDK Recently?
It can be pretty hard to keep everything up-to-date on a developer workstation these days. With so...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/10/2008
Off-Topic: Tipping in Las Vegas
A confession: I'm really bad at tipping. It's not that I'm deliberately ungenerous, but simply that...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/08/2008
MIX08 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog
I'm going to be "live blogging" the Steve Ballmer keynote this afternoon at this URL. Keep...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/06/2008
Registering for the AOL Mail Client
I mentioned yesterday that the Hard Rock memorabilia application was live already at...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/06/2008
A Great Early Silverlight 2 Showcase: TextGlow
We're already starting to see some cool samples that use Silverlight 2 really effectively. Prior to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/06/2008
So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?
OK, so you've got all the bits downloaded and installed on your machine. What's the best way to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/05/2008
Download Links for MIX08 Announcements
Here's a consolidated list of all the key downloads you'll need to update your developer workstation...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/05/2008
MIX08 for Non-Attendees
At last, the mad rush is over. The run-up to a conference like MIX is always frantic: for me, the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/03/2008
Video.Show 1.0 Released to Web
After three public preview releases, I'm proud to announce the final version of Video.Show, a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/11/2008
Windows '7' Technical Evangelist: Are YOU The Person We're Looking For?
It's not a state secret that we're in the early stages of development for the next version of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/31/2008
Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF
I'm delighted to see that Infragistics have just released their NetAdvantage control set for WPF....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2008
Flotzam: Mashing up the Web
Have you seen Flotzam? It's a fun mash-up that Karsten and Tim put together that aggregates a bunch...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/25/2008
Making Silverlight Easier for Systems Administrators to Install...
If you're really astute, you may notice that we released a very minor update to the Silverlight 1.0...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/22/2008
We've Released the News Reader SDK!
Many of you have seen the New York Times reader application - it was featured as part of the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/16/2008
Silverlight Christmas Cards
Around the world, people are preparing to gather together to celebrate the holiday season, to give...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/18/2007
Great WPF Applications #17: HP Interactive Canvas
Kapow! Shazam! Zing! Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet drove in hard with a right hook last week, referencing...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/17/2007
Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?
I just wanted to clarify something that is hopefully already pretty well understood. As folk know,...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/12/2007
Share Your Christmas Wishlist / Hatelist with Silverlight
Here's a cool little Silverlight 1.0 application that our team (specifically Adam) assisted with...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/10/2007
The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution
Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/07/2007
Great WPF Applications #16: Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista
It's time for me to reboot this series that showcases great applications built on WPF. I left it on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/06/2007
Video.Show Update: 1.0 Release Candidate Now LIve
You may be pleased to know that we've just updated Video.Show with a bunch of changes. The 1.0...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/30/2007
Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0
It's been gratifying to see how much excitement there is out there about Silverlight. We've barely...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/29/2007
Windows Survey on Deploying and Configuring Applications
As we plan the next release of Windows (turns out that Windows Vista wasn't the last release of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/19/2007
Introducing Video.Show: A Silverlight Reference-quality Sample
One of the favorite things about my job is being able to share really cool new content with you all,...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/09/2007
Calling Silverlight 1.1 Developers: Do You Need to Update Your Machine?
I've seen isolated reports of the Silverlight plug-in expiring here and there today from a few...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/01/2007
A Silverlight Greetings Card
Thanks to Adam Kinney (again!) for this awesome Halloween greetings card, brought to you by...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/31/2007
Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience
Adam Kinney wrote a good blog entry last week on the importance for site authors of considering the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/29/2007
Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!
People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/26/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Issue Resolution Lab: November 2007
A couple of months ago, we conducted an experiment where we offered our lab facilities and technical...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/24/2007
Has Obama Declared for Silverlight?
As a great example of what you can do today with Silverlight 1.0, I thought I'd bring this sample...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/12/2007
The Zero-Effort Guide to Preparing a Great WPF Presentation
A couple of months ago, I posted a couple of presentations on Silverlight, with the intention of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/05/2007
Deploying Silverlight in the Enterprise
As more and more Silverlight sites become available, enterprise administrators are starting to ask...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/28/2007
Halo 3 and Silverlight
Halo 3 and Silverlight are proving the ultimate combination: if you want access to all the latest...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/21/2007
The 100th WPF Channel 9 Video: KevinButton on WPF 3.5
I see on the Channel 9 home page that we've hit the milestone of one hundred videos posted on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/09/2007
Updated Silverlight Samples and Yet More RC Bits
Now that the API-complete RC releases of Silverlight have been out for a couple of weeks, most...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/08/2007
Silverlight RC2 On The Way - We're Getting CLose!
As we close down on the release, we're actually pushing out an update to the Silverlight RC build in...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/01/2007
How to Embed Silverlight Content in Almost Any Web Page
Catherine Heller has written up a great post that describes a new feature in Silverlight Streaming....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/31/2007