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The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more. April 22 - April 24 2008 Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel
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WPF and Silverlight applications cover a whole spectrum of application types and richness from incredible full-screen applications incorporating 3d and video to games to good old standard (but highly usable and attractive) business applications . It's
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Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do
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I always enjoy MIX; it's my favorite conference. I used to look forward to the PDC, but I'd only really enjoy the UI technology-related sessions there anyway. This morning, Scott Guthrie posted a couple of interview videos which cover what's
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Silverlight lacks the bitmap effects that are commonly used in WPF applications. Most can be simulated using pngs, but some can also be simulated using xaml. The example below shows a passable (but not perfect) drop shadow effect that relies only on vector
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I was in Redmond all last week for a Silverlight meeting. My connecting flight from Denver to Baltimore was delayed so many times that it was around 3:00am when I exited the concourse at BWI and passed through security on my way out. I always like to
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This is a great example of what a real business-oriented WPF (and by extension, Silverlight 2.0) application can look like. Battleship gray this is not. The look and feel is beautiful, the visual feedback slick, and the workflow simple and appropriate.
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I previously blogged about why I stopped coding in Silverlight 1.1 . I want to make it clear that that is in no way an indictment of that technology. It's just that I've learned from it what I wanted to and have moved on. While I find 1.0 great
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You may have noticed that I stopped putting Silverlight 1.1 code out on my blog and stopped talking about 1.1 at local events. I even keynoted the Silverlight FireStarter back in December and barely mentioned 1.1 in the process (I think it rated one slide).
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I'm pleased and excited to announce that I just received the 2008 MVP Award (Visual Developer - Client Application Development) particularly for my work around Silverlight. This, especially when combined with the success we had in getting AIS into
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Kirupa has created a nice WPF sample that shows how to create falling snow animation in WPF in code. Check out his post here . I haven't seriously looked at the source yet, but I may translate this to Silverlight just for grins. Share this post: Email
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I was over at ExpressionBlend.com and saw this article that rants about the boring old UIs being developed using windows-forms type developers working in WPF. This is a great example of the clash that is starting to happen as the worlds of RIA and traditional
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Expression Design Service Pack 1 has been released. See the Expression Design Team Blog here . These two features are one that I've really been waiting for: Text can now be exported as TextBlocks for Silverlight applications. In the release version
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In case you haven't seen it yet, Microsoft is releasing a huge chunk of source code for .NET 3.5. From Scott Guthrie's blog: One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the
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I wrote a small media player for my son. I wrote the original version in Silverlight, but quickly ran into a problem where no matter what I did, Silverlight wouldn't read the larger video files (encoding was fine, so I'm pretty sure this is a
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