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Silverlight 1.0 Beta to RC: It's Time To Move...
Hopefully many of you have now upgraded to the Silverlight 1.0 RC (or 1.1 Alpha Refresh bits). Just...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/31/2007
What's New in WPF 3.5? Here's Fifteen Cool Features...
A lot of WPF developers know that Visual Studio 2008 will include much better baked-in support for...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/27/2007
Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!
As indicated in a previous post, we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/27/2007
Announcing Family.Show 2.0
Three months ago, we launched Family.Show, our first end-to-end reference sample for WPF....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/17/2007
Preparing for Silverlight 1.0 RC and Beyond
In just a couple of weeks, we'll be ready to publish the Release Candidate of Silverlight 1.0 to the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/13/2007
From A to Z... 50 Silverlight Applications
It's great to see so many Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and applications appearing out...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/07/2007
Come to a Silverlight Lab in Redmond
From time to time, we run development labs in Redmond where folk can bring their applications in and...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/05/2007
So You Want to Give a Silverlight Presentation?
It's my hope that you're somewhat excited by this Silverlight stuff, and if so, perhaps you're...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/04/2007
A Summer of WPF and Silverlight Training
Summer's here, and that usually means a bit of a slow-down in the office as folk take off on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/25/2007
Some Great Silverlight Controls
The Silverlight 1.1 alpha bits don't currently have much in the way of controls. The infrastructure...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/22/2007
Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers
Celso Gomes is an amazing interactive designer working at Microsoft who is responsible for the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/21/2007
More Fun with Silverlight Video: Ad Overlays
Viral video sites are everywhere: it seems that everyone has an embarrassing moment or unusual...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/20/2007
Demo: The Power of Silverlight Video
As we were pretty explicit in declaring at the MIX conference last month, one of the key scenarios...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/20/2007
WPF Hands-on-Lab: Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone
I got wind today of a great hands-on lab that demonstrates the steps needed to create a high-quality...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/13/2007
Programming HTML with C#
In my last post, I promised to provide a more detailed technical explanation of how you can use the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/13/2007
Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...
I wanted to highlight a Silverlight feature that is often overlooked, relating to the way that...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/07/2007
Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design
Arturo Toledo (one of our ace designers) posted a reminder on an internal email list that lynda.com...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/05/2007
Silverlight in the UK and Ireland...
Sorry - I temporarily fell off the blogging wagon. It's tough to keep it going - there's always new...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/04/2007
Silverlight Streaming is Now Live
Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007
Expression Media Encoder
Download a free trial version here...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007
WPF Momentum Video
For the last few months, I've been featuring a portfolio of great WPF applications that have shipped...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007
Silverlight Screencasts
To coincide with the launch of the Silverlight 1.0 Beta, my team has been working hard on a great...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/30/2007
Our First WPF End-To-End Reference Sample: Family.Show
The first three days of next week are going to be crammed full of announcements as MIX gets under...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/27/2007
Silverlight Redux: Listening to Feedback...
Although it was great to see that my post on Silverlight got picked up in a few places (in...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/18/2007
Introducing Expression Media Encoder
It's been a busy day of announcements! Amidst the hubbub of the introduction of Silverlight,...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/16/2007
Introducing Microsoft Silverlight
It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight: our next-generation,...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/16/2007
Great WPF Applications #15: Microsoft Indexing Service
[Update: Happy April Fool's Day, everyone! For the avoidance of doubt, this was a hoax...] At the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 04/01/2007
Great WPF Applications #14: Zurich Airport
From the beautiful city of Zürich in Switzerland comes this great example of how WPF makes data...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/27/2007
Great WPF Applications #13: Pass
Let's say for a moment that you're a small business trader that needs to be able to receive payments...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/14/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Released...
The final release of the VS 2005 update for Windows Vista is now available. This update fixes most...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/07/2007
Great WPF Applications #12: Roxio Central
I'm hoping that by now, you're starting to get a sense for the range and breadth of real-world WPF...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/05/2007
Windows Vista Light-Up is Just a Recompile Away for Your MFC Application...
Yesterday's post on the release of the Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP triggered a great question...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/02/2007
WPF and Orcas
(No, that's not a whale reference...) Today we released a fresh CTP of the next release of Visual...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/28/2007
WPF Chat Transcript #2 Now Available
Thanks to the 120+ of you who showed up for the second technical chat with the WPF and Expression...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/26/2007
Great WPF Applications #11: Areva e-terravision
I've been trying with this series to satisfy the desire we all have for instant gratification by...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/22/2007
Great WPF Applications #10: Daily Mail, Seattle P-I, forbes.com, New York Times
I've been holding off from highlighting the New York Times Reader as one of the applications in my...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/22/2007
Virtual PC Museum 2007
As Mike Swanson mentions in his blog, Virtual PC 2007 was released this week as a free download....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/20/2007
Digg for WPF
What would Digg look like if it focused exclusively on WPF? Probably this...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/15/2007
Great WPF Applications #9: Scripps Institute Cancer Research
I'm behind on my write-ups of great WPF applications, and they're stacking up. Sorry! The next...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/14/2007
Great WPF Applications #8: NoteScraps
I love this little application: it's a joyous example of how the subtle use of WPF can add greatly...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/09/2007
Great WPF Applications #7: Skandia Cowes Week CourseSetter
I wanted to draw attention to this one, because it's such a fun usage of WPF. Each summer, the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/06/2007
WPF / Expression Technical Chat: February 21st
We had a pretty successful online technical chat in December, where we brought about twenty members...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/05/2007
New Screencast Show on WPF and Expression
The first show of a potentially great new series on WPF and Expression has just hit the wires....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/05/2007
Great WPF Applications #6: fnac.com
If you want to see a contrasting online shopping experience to Otto, you could do worse than look at...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/02/2007
Google, Share Prices and Ads
Seeing Google announce quarterly earnings nearly triple their results for the same quarter of last...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/01/2007
Great WPF Applications #5: TF1
I'm slightly accelerating the pace of these articles from the planned daily push, simply because...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/01/2007
Great WPF Applications #4: Otto
Although you may not have heard of them by name, Otto Group are a huge retail conglomerate with €9b...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/01/2007