November 2008 - Posts
There’s a glaring issue with this dialog from the Amazon MP3 Downloader. What is it? For comparison, here’s another dialog in Windows And a third I won’t fault you if you don’t happen to see the problem. In fact, you really need to have the mouse in your
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I was snagging some icons to go into a comp of a Silverlight LOB application today when I realized that some of the metaphors used in the software we’re refacing (Silverlight front-end to an existing LOB application), just don’t hold anymore. While it
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Jan 16, 2009 - Save the date! I’ll be speaking at the Washington DC stop of the MSDN Developer Conference on January 16, 2009. The topic is Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight
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From OWA spell-check dialog:
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Just for grins, I thought it would be fun to put together a list of the games I found most enjoyable or memorable. It should be 20, but at the end count, it was only 19. :) I haven't had a chance to play any games in a few years (coincidentally around
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Shortly after the release of the first rev of the Silverlight Toolkit I made a first attempt at styling the chart controls included in the release. Shawn Burke just turned me on to this excellent article and flowchart from a member of his team,
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The Facebook Developer Toolkit has hit an important milestone: 2.0 RTW. I’m upgrading the MSDN East Coast News Silverlight application to this version this weekend, so we’ll see how complete it is this time :) In addition, Steve’s Facebook Developer Toolkit
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