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Combining Software in Amazing Ways
Virtual Event: Microsoft Silverlight Kits 6/9/2009
On June 9, 2009, I will be presenting a series of free web meetings about Silverlight Kits that I...
Author: Synergist Date: 06/01/2009
New York Times WPF Kit
If you browse the source code for the New York Times Silverlight Kit, you’ll notice that there are...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/18/2009
Microsoft Product Roadmap
My colleague Bruce Kyle, just posted a list of product releases planned over the next year,...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/15/2009
Need Help with my Chroma Key Pixel Shader Algorithm
I’ve just uploaded a simple demo application that shows the Silverlight 3 Chroma Key Effect in...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/15/2009
Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle
I just used Sandcastle and the HTML Help Workshop to build the documentation for the New York Times...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/14/2009
Alpha Video with Silverlight 3 Pixel Shaders
One of the requests that I hear quite often for Silverlight is support for Alpha Video where video...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/14/2009
New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source
We are excited to announce that the New York Times Silverlight Kit is now an Open Source project...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/13/2009
Silverlight, Video, and SketchFlow at MGFest in Austin Next Week
Next week I will be teaching two full-day workshops at the Motion Graphics Festival in Austin,...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/05/2009
The New York Times Silverlight Kit
Today we are excited to announce a new alliance with the New York Times around a new Silverlight Kit...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/05/2009
Meet Me at the MySpace SF devJam 5/26/2009
Next month I’ll be going to the MySpace San Francisco devJam, a free all-day event at the...
Author: Synergist Date: 05/01/2009
Viewstream’s Silverlight Gets Social Event (5/14 in San Francisco)
Viewstream, a Microsoft Silverlight partner is hosting an event in San Francisco on Thursday, May...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/29/2009
Creating Activities with the Silverlight Kit for MySpace
We’ve just checked in code on the Silverlight Kit for MySpace that enables Silverlight...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/29/2009
MTV Asset Management using Silverlight 3
My colleague Jit Ghosh just wrote about the very cool Silverlight 3 application that a team from...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/27/2009
Meet Me at NAB
Next week I will be at the NAB Show in Las Vegas (NAB=National Association of Broadcasters). If you...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/17/2009
Topics to Blog About
I have so many blog topics/whitepapers/projects to complete (in no specific order): Silverlight 2/3...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/17/2009
WPF for Line of Business Apps Free Training
My colleague Jaime Rodriguez asked me to tell you about this great opportunity for learning about...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/17/2009
Silverlight for MySpace on Channel 9
Laura Foy from Channel 9 sent me a few questions last week about Silverlight on MySpace. Watch here...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/09/2009
My Artist Explorer Wins at the Circus Mashimus Mashup Contest!
I just heard that my entry into the Circus Mashimus contest was just selected as Best In Show...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/09/2009
Silverlight Kit for MySpace is Live on CodePlex!
The session at Web 2.0 expo went well. Before I retire for the night I wanted to post a link to the...
Author: Synergist Date: 04/03/2009
My First Silverlight 2 Application on MySpace
If you go to my profile page on MySpace today, you’ll see a Silverlight application that I built to...
Author: Synergist Date: 03/31/2009
Silverlight for the MySpace Developer Platform
Now you can build Silverlight applications for the MySpace Developer Platform! I have been...
Author: Synergist Date: 03/30/2009
Data Binding with the Virtual Earth Control
I was very excited to hear that the Virtual Earth (VE) team was creating a Silverlight control and...
Author: Synergist Date: 03/22/2009
Artist Explorer – a Silverlight 2 Mashup
At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a...
Author: Synergist Date: 03/19/2009
Today’s Links
Internet Explorer: Why it Crashes and How to Fix It 10 Useful Internet Explorer Accelerators...
Author: Synergist Date: 02/26/2009
Extending the Silverlight DataGrid Class with a Custom Attached Property
One of my customers has been using the Silverlight 2 DataGrid and came to me with a request: ...
Author: Synergist Date: 02/23/2009
Silverlight and Expression Blend for E-Learning Applications
One of my publishing customers is going to start building a series of E-Learning application in...
Author: Synergist Date: 02/12/2009
A Silverlight 2 Ad Rotator
I’ve been learning how to build Silverlight 2 Custom Controls and wanted to share my first...
Author: Synergist Date: 02/04/2009
Blown away by Quince
Infragistics, one of the top-notch control vendors for Silverlight, just launched, Quince, a User...
Author: Synergist Date: 02/04/2009
New Silverlight User Group in San Francisco
Silverlight momentum is growing! Three firms that do Silverlight work in the San Francisco Bay area...
Author: Synergist Date: 02/02/2009
IgnoreWhitespace: a Custom Attached Property for WPF
In the blog post I just wrote, I found a peculiarity of XAML (both WPF and Silverlight) where nicely...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/30/2009
Whitespace in XAML
I just ran into a problem with XAML (WPF and Silverlight) and wanted to share my solution with...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/30/2009
Updating Word to XAML Converter
I have done a bit of work lately on my Word 2007 to XAML converter application to give it a bit more...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/29/2009
Deep Discounts on Microsoft Expression until January 31
When I joined Microsoft, I was a Visual Studio user having spent my career developing, designing,...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/19/2009
Using Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel in your Listbox
I love the Silverlight Toolkit – it’s a great set of free Silverlight extensions that you can use in...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/19/2009
Someone Tries Microsoft Songsmith
Zack Scott just tried Microsoft Songsmith a new application from Microsoft Research that creates...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/14/2009
Microsoft Songsmith
Take a look at this interesting product that has come out of Microsoft Research: Microsoft...
Author: Synergist Date: 01/11/2009
My Son Alex’s Leapster 2
If you smiled when you read this title, then you’re in on the secret. We gave our son Alex,...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/27/2008
Sliverlight Developer Needed at Origin Digital
Origin Digital, an Accenture owned company, is a rapidly growing video applications service provider...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/22/2008
Created Virtual Earth Collections Block in Popfly
I like using the collections feature in Live Search Maps where I can keep collections of locations....
Author: Synergist Date: 12/15/2008
MSDN Developer Conference
If you missed the PDC, you can now spend a day in a location near you to learn all about Azure,...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/15/2008
Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision
A look at the Generation 4.0 vision of data centers from Microsoft.Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/10/2008
A Hanukkah Menorah
Last year I created this menorah for Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish celebration of lights and now I’ve...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/04/2008
AOL Mail Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8
If you use AOL Mail and you want to try out a new feature of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), install the...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/03/2008
An Interview with the Developer of a Silverlight 2 Ribbon Interface
The first project that I did when I started experimenting with Silverlight 1.0 (at that time it was...
Author: Synergist Date: 12/02/2008
Silverlight Engineer at McCann Worldgroup in San Francisco
McCann Worldgroup is looking for a Silverlight Engineer in San Francisco.From...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/28/2008
How to Teach Yourself Expression Blend
So you’re an interactive designer or developer and you have been hearing about Silverlight....
Author: Synergist Date: 11/26/2008
Silverlight Jobs Feed
It seems like there’s real interest in freelance designers who are proficient in Silverlight...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/25/2008
Los Angeles-Based Freelance Silverlight Designer Needed
A partner of mine, eblizz in Los Angeles is working on a new Silverlight-based site and needs a...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/25/2008
Help Us Understand Cloud Computing
Tell Us What You Think About Cloud Computing - Do you have something to say about Cloud Computing?...
Author: Synergist Date: 11/24/2008